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Curricular Supplements:
Breaking Barriers in Public Service

Diversity in Public Service:

A Toolkit for Serving Diverse Communities

U.S. Administration on Aging

CAPLAW

Community Action Program Legal Services, Washington D.C.

Leadership for the Public Service:

Federal Government Leadership Development Programs

These links go to web sites for leadership development programs developed for Federal Government officials.

Source: GovLeaders.org

How to Create a Leadership Development Action Plan

Articles and worksheets

Source: GovLeaders.org

Stepping up. A framework for public sector leadership on sustainability 

by Anna Birney, Helen Clarkson, Peter Madden, Jonathan Porritt, Ben Tuxworth

This guide sets out the agenda for an organisation wishing to lead on sustainability, and illustrates the kinds of action required, drawing on case studies from around the world. It also sets out a nine-point plan that a public sector organisation aspiring to leadership can follow.

Source: Forum for the Future

Motivation for the Public Service:

The Price of Freedom: Americans at War

Learning Resources, National Museum of American History

Why Motivation Matters in Public Sector Innovation

by Jo Casebourne 2014

These literatures give key insights on how to harness intrinsic motivation to encourage public sector innovation. It is know that public servants draw on intrinsic motivations in their work and that what drives them is a mix of altruism and more self–interested motives. It is know that innovation is more linked to intrinsic than to extrinsic motivations.

Source: NESTA (NESTA is a registered charity in the England and Wales)

Quiet Heroes and Innovators:

The Innovation Unit

​The Innovation Unit partners with the public sector to develop different, better, lower cost solutions to social challenges. For example, the Unit offers a number of support packages to support the delivery of radical new models of schooling.

Women in the Public Service:

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