Leadership Reading to Start Your Week for local government is back! Here are several articles on leadership topics pulled from various resources to start off your work week. This post will point you to articles on leadership, management, career stage advice, and more.

how to be more compassionate

From govloop, written by jennifer dreibelbis

"Health magazine in its January/February 2016 issue said in “The (Real) Secret to Happiness” that showing compassion could help you feel better about yourself and the world around you. So here are some tips on how to be more compassionate with our coworkers, our staff, friends, family and ourselves..."

are you a leader, or just pretending to be one?

From harvard business review, written by umair haque

"What’s not leadership? For one thing, performing. Leadership is not making the right faces, memorizing the right lines, pumping your fist in precisely the right way at exactly the right moment. It’s being. Let me explain the difference..."

effective leaders know how to focus on the future

from government executive, written by amy zalman

"Once we grasp that the activity of strategic foresight is to help leaders make better decisions and to more powerfully shape the future, we can also better grasp what we might measure. Here are just a few ways in which the government’s effectiveness could be measured..."

infographic: how to manage your anxiety when presenting

from insights by stanford business, written by matt forrest abrahams

"If the idea of public speaking immediately sends your pulse racing, you're not alone." Here are nine ways to manage your anxiety before your next big presentation.

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