Welcome to the free course Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations. This course provides an opportunity for people who work within voluntary organisations, as paid employees or staff, to develop energetic, practical and thoughtful leadership practice.

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• approach leadership in a more energetic and thoughtful way 
• discuss approaches to leadership in relation to a number of pressing concerns relevant to voluntary organisations
• practise leadership in a more robust way within small teams and with volunteers, through drawing on some key practices
• offer a critique of dominant approaches to leadership in relation to cases from the voluntary sector
• discuss and reflect on leadership in the voluntary sector in relation to ethics
• articulate a form of leadership rooted in practice between diverse groups of people and contexts.