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6. CULTIVATE NEXT GENERATION LEADERS

Leaders share the role of leadership with staff, partners, and the public. They use social tech-nologies to listen, inform, and collaborate.

3. EMBRACE OPENNESS

Leaders look for new ways to apply their re-sources and expertise. They focus on commu-nity problems, not just workforce problems.

1. ADOPT A WIDE-ANGLE POINT OF VIEW

Leaders know workforce development needs new ideas, and new ideas need testing.

4. ENCOURAGE EXPERIMENTATION

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5. ADD UNIQUE VALUE

THE FUTURE OF WORKFORCE LEADERSHIP:

WEADERSHIP

Leaders collaborate with partners creatively, using informal networks alongside traditional boards or policy councils.

2. BUILD DIVERSE NETWORKS

1. A series of group conversations resulted in our 12 Highlights collection—cards, slides, a narrative brief, and a series of posts.

The whole collection is here:http://bit.ly/moVwGr

2. We curated “favorites” across media platforms. Our Five Great Leadership Videos collection features Derek Sivers’ How to Start of Movement in Under Three Minutes.

The collection is here:http://bit.ly/m65qZl

3. And we did our own video trailer: http://bit.ly/nP5T1n

4. One of our team members even turned WEadership into a TEDx Talk in Tucson,Arizona.

5. Our capstone product is:

THE WEadership GuideThe Guide features a narrative around the WEadership Framework, subject-specific inserts on social media and innovations in public policy—social innovation, “Gov2.0”, crowdsourcing, and gaming. Loaded with tools, examples, and resources, the Guide aims to help current and aspiring leaders build their own skills and cultivate leadership in their organizations and communities. It is available as a PDF (at no cost) and in the form of a Blurb book.

Additional information and an ongoing collection of blogposts centered on leadership, innovation, and workforce can be found on the project’s website: WEadership.org.

We tweet at @WEadership.We Facebook (at WEadership, of course).

The Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) project team spent much of 2011 looking at workforce leadership—what it is, why it matters, and how to cultivate it. What we found is a whole new model of leadership. We call it WEadership. It's collaborative and anyone who masters the six WEadership practices can employ it.

OUR FAVORITE WEADERSHIP RESOURCES

http://bit.ly/oJXZdz