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Ashridge Virtual Learning Resource Centre
This resource helps you develop as a manager and leader. Access a range of development materials through our specially-designed tool for leadership competencies, covering the LG Improvement and Development political skills framework and managerial leadership skills.
How to get into the resource
You will need a '.gov.uk' email address to enter:
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Sign up to the LG Improvement and Development website with a '.gov.uk' email – if you haven't done so already.
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Log into the our website – if you haven't done so already.
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Enter the resource. The link will automatically appear below if you have logged in with a '.gov.uk' email.
Note: If you do not have a '.gov.uk' email address you may still qualify for access if you work for one of our selected partner authorities.
This resource is available to our local government audience in England and Wales.
Access for non '.gov.uk' users
What's new?
July 2010: public sector special
We have added four new learning guides and, for the first time, audio-visual content, all of which is focused specifically on public sector leadership:
| Audio-visual content | Complex programme management Effective programme management Leadership of the future and during recession Performance management and measurement Public leadership Strategic human resources Strategic human resources leadership Talent management Talent psychology The challenge of local leadership Using consultants |
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| Learning guides | Public leadership Public performance management Public talent management Working for ministers |
April 2010
New in-depth book reviews of 'The leadership secrets of Genghis Khan' by John Man and 'Leadership and the new science' by Margaret J. Wheatley.
March 2010
A new ‘Absence Management’ pocketbook, and in-depth book reviews of ‘Leadershift’ by Emmanuel Gobillot and ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ by Peter Drucker.
December 2009
A new learning guide called ‘Performance Management in the Public Sector’. To access this, enter the Ashridge resource and go to the section headed 'Managing People, Resources and Performance'.
June 2009
More than 50 new items added throughout the 10 leadership competencies.
What is it?
We have partnered with leading business school Ashridge to help you with your personal professional development. Together, we provide a learning tool for political and managerial leadership that filters the Ashridge resource according to 10 key LG Improvement and Development leadership competencies. The resource contains:
- approximately 60 learning guides, providing in-depth training in professional issues from action learning to writing business plans
- more than 60 management pocket books, providing easily-digestible information on issues from assertiveness to working in virtual teams
- over 130 in-depth book reviews, summarising aspects of the latest management thinking and more besides
- 46 essays on leadership and management topics from Bloomsbury publishing.
The Ashridge Journal
Ashridge publishes a quarterly journal containing the latest thinking and research from the Ashridge faculty. The Autumn 2008 issue was a public sector special, with the lead article considering the need for competitive spirit in public sector management:
Ashridge Journal – on the Ashridge Business School website
Page updated July 2010.
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