18 July 2024 - 5 min read
Continuous professional development as a leader is vital for success and one of the easiest ways to develop professionally, is to read.
The internet became our most common source of knowledge, instruction and advice between the 90’s and 2000’s and has since been home to an overabundance of readable (and sometimes questionably reliable) content. This content comes in the form of websites, blogs, articles, forums, social media threads and more.
Today, individuals continue to turn to search engines when looking for solutions, inspiration or to learn something new and, unsurprisingly, online blogs remain a popular and common source of information. In fact, 77% of internet users are reading blogs daily.
So, if you’re a leader (or aspiring leader), in a position of power or managing teams, here are what we consider to be the 10 best leadership blogs to follow right now.
Living as a Leader have developed a unique approach to leadership development, specialising in both the skills and strategies that are required of any great leader in today’s modern workplace.
A women owned business, they provide leadership training and coaching, for front line, middle and senior managers. Additionally, they have their own Train-the-Trainer Certification and provide a range of eLearning courses covering workplace conflict, employee engagement and sound decision making.
As thought leaders in the leadership space, they have plenty of free downloadable resources on their website, like reading materials and information about their e-learning and mobile app. However, we’re most interested in their leadership blog, which is jam packed with a variety of engaging content.
Life as a Leader speak on a variety of relevant topics such as ‘Enhancing Leadership Through Employee Feedback’, and pose thought provoking questions to their readers like ‘Likeability & Leadership: Does It Matter?’
To stand out amongst the crowd, Living as a Leader create impact by discussing what is actually happening in the world of work, exploring subjects like the impact that social media can have on leadership resource and the outdated, post pandemic, 40 hour working week.
An executive leadership coach, Lolly Daskal is the founder of her own leadership programme, Lead From Within, bringing together her passions of modern philosophy, behavioural science and leadership. Lolly has 30 years of coaching experience under her belt and has built up a reputation of being a “catalyst for leaders who want to enhance performance and make a meaningful difference in their companies”.
A talented writer and author, Lolly shares her knowledge and experience with her readers through her blog and covers topics such as ‘How to successfully teach leadership to new managers” and “How to design a leadership development plan that transforms your career”.
Lolly is driven by transparency and aims to be as realistic and authentic about what leadership actually is to her readers. She shares tools and strategies that are easily adaptable for business leaders, ensuring they can use them in their day to day lives, as well as ensuring her content is digestible and extractable. Her blogs are designed in a way that readers can clearly see steps and instructions that they can then apply themselves.
Lolly also shares a range of different content, including a podcast, , videos. articles, and her book titled The Leadership Gap.
The UK’s LGBTQ+ leaders’ online community, Pride in Leadership, is a safe space designed for LGBTQ+ leaders and allies to have meaningful conversations, share ambitions, as well as connect and support each other in the world of leadership.
Their blog offers inspiring and motivational reads, like “Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling”, and shares other forms of content such as event writeups and think pieces. It also has regular contributions from members of the council, MP’s and Lords about the workplace factors that are standing in the way of LGBTQ+ individuals being successful and senior business leaders.
To support this, Pride in Leadership released a call-to-action recently, asking LGBTQ+ individuals to discuss their own experiences of career development barriers in the workplace, by taking time to fill out their “Understanding Barriers to Career Growth” survey.
Realising that little research into LGBTQ+ leaders exists, as well as a lack of information about what it means to be a LGBTQ+ leader, Pride in Leadership will use collected survey data to complete a report which will highlight both the positive experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders and more importantly, the areas of improvement.
Suzi McAlpine, the founder and author behind The Leader’s Digest is an executive coach and speaker, passionate about preparing emerging leaders with all the necessary tools that they need to be successful in today’s work environment.
Writing timely and relevant blogs, covering a range of topics from ‘4 expert tips to propel your neurodivergent superstars’ to learning from joy in the workplace, Suzi includes a comments section within all her written content as a way of allowing others to share and discuss their experiences.
This only emphasises how passionate Suzi is about collaboration as a leader and how she believes that vulnerability is a positive first step to successful business partnerships.
One of the most well-known business and leadership blogs, The Harvard Business Review is brimming with blogs covering a range of topics from delegation, mentoring and managing teams.
Written by a variety of authors from Professors of Leadership to Chief Economists and Senior Advisors, Harvard Business Review is a respectable and trusted source for many leaders around the globe.
To name a few, recently, the Harvard Business Review has discussed topics such as:
Bringing some fun into the world of leadership, Dan Rockwell said that he first began writing as a way of making a difference, being someone who was in a leadership position from a very young age.
Keen to share his insights in a creative way, Dan says that he “enjoys writing in a somewhat chaotic way” and doesn’t care too much for grammar, punctuation or spelling.
A co-author of a book titled The Character Based Leader, Dan has also recently written about mastering emotional agility, gratitude and goal setting failures.
Passionate about human behaviour, Jenny is a workplace coach who has combined both human experience and science-based performance techniques to support those working in leadership, with a specific focus on high performance in a principled way. Drawing on her 35 years of human behaviour experience, Jenny has previously worked as a nurse on psychiatric wards and in many corporate roles herself.
In October 2022, Jenny also launched online leadership programme, Big 6, specifically designed to support neurodivergent woman in leadership. Since then, she has blogged about her own journey as someone who was diagnosed with ADHD in her fifties and speaks to other women about their neurodiverse experiences in the workplace.
Being that conversations around neurodivergence are only now starting to push to the forefront, Jenny’s blog is a refreshing and welcome contribution to the leadership space from this angle and many others.
Driven by his passion to succeed, both professionally and personally, Michael Hyatt made balance his mission and built Full Focus, a team that are committed to finding the happy medium between being a high-performance leader in the workplace and at home.
Focusing on entrepreneurship, leadership, personal development and productivity, Michael is a firm believer in leading effectively. He expresses that a combination of prioritisation and goal setting – especially when it comes to strategic business planning – allows individuals to forge the daily habits that will eventually lead to meeting their goals, all while building a strong company culture.
Michael has published several resources over the years, including his blog which is packed with advice, plans, tricks and agendas to help leaders both set and reach their business targets. To give you more of an idea, some of his recent blogs are titled:
A trusted consultancy company with over twelve years of experience, Red Shoe Movement focuses on empowering women in leadership positions from all different backgrounds through their unique “360 approach” (which you can find out more about on their website!).
Their blog is a one stop shop for women in leadership positions across the globe, spanning several current topics and themes, evidenced through the titles of some of their recent blogs:
We all hear about industry thought leaders, how respected they are and that we should most certainly follow their advice if we want to be successful. However, how are thought leaders established and how does a typical leader differ from a thought leader?
Thought Leadership Lab strives to answer these questions through empowering and teaching leaders how to, firstly, build more influence and then how to create more impact.
Denise Brosseau, CEO of Thought Leadership Lab, shares how to get started as a thought leader, including strategies, tactics and the correct leadership mindset required of any leader. She also spends time interviewing current thought leaders across different industries to bring variety to her content. If that weren’t enough, Denise has previously led LinkedIn Learning courses for business leaders and is a proud advocate of women in leadership, choice and change.
Being a leader is multifaced, demanding a unique set of skills and the motivation to stay ahead of the curve. While this can be a tall order as a busy working professional, the best thing about great blog content is that it’s (almost) always free and always accessible.
As the working landscape continues to transform, as will leadership, so we hope you follow these blogs to stay current on industry trends and insights - and keep coming back for more.
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