The document provides resources for workforce leaders, including a collection of posts, cards, and narratives summarizing discussions with workforce leaders around "12 Highlights" of leadership. It also references a capstone product called "The Future of Workforce Leadership: WEADERSHIP" which is a guide including tools and examples to help leaders build skills. Additional resources mentioned include favorite leadership videos, books, and links to the project website for more information.

1. 2. BUILD DIVERSE
NETWORKS
Leaders collaborate with partners creatively,
using informal networks alongside traditional
boards or policy councils.
3. EMBRACE OPENNESS
1. ADOPT A WIDE-ANGLE
POINT OF VIEW
Leaders share the role of leadership with staff,
partners, and the public. They use social tech-
Leaders look for new ways to apply their re-
nologies to listen, inform, and collaborate.
sources and expertise. They focus on commu-
nity problems, not just workforce problems.
THE FUTURE OF WORKFORCE LEADERSHIP:
WEADERSHIP
6. CULTIVATE NEXT
GENERATION LEADERS 4. ENCOURAGE
Leaders build skills and share knowledge in
EXPERIMENTATION
in their communities. Leaders know workforce development needs
new ideas, and new ideas need testing.
5. ADD UNIQUE VALUE
can make a real difference in their communities.
Only those who add value remain relevant.

2. “What resources did you find or develop
! ! ! ! that might help me or my organization?”
OUR FAVORITE PROJECT RESOURCES
1. The Enhancing Workforce Leadership project 3. Our capstone produce is:
team created a collection of resources around
the “12 Highlights” resulting from a series of The Future of Workforce Leadership:
group conversations with workforce leaders
from across the country.
WEADERSHIP
This is a guide that includes a narrative around the
A collection of posts
Weadership Framework, an introduction to social
innovation, an introduction to social media, and is
A set of cards
loaded with tools, examples, and resources to help
workforce leaders build their own leadership skills and
A narrative brief
cultivate leaders in their organizations and
communities. It is available as a PDF (at no cost) and
A slidedeck
in the form of a Blurb book.
The whole collection is here:
http://bit.ly/moVwGr
http://bit.ly/oJXZdz
2. We also curated a collection of “favorites”
across multiple media platforms.
The first video in our Five Great Leadership Videos
collection is Derek Sivers’
How to Start a Movement in Under Three Minutes
The entire five-video collection is here: Additional information, links, products, and
http://bit.ly/m65qZl resources are available through:
EnhancingWorkforceLeadership.workforce3one.org
and the project’s archive:
EnhancingWorkforceLeadership.org
Follow us on Twitter:
Open Leadership, by Charlene Li (2010) is one of 11 @WFLeadership
books we assembled on our favorites list.
The complete favorites list is here:
http://bit.ly/lnh1u9 4. Weadership Video Trailer:
http://bit.ly/nP5T1n
EnhancingWorkforceLeadership.org
August 2011