Leadership Development Network

The Leadership Development Working Group has drafted a shared definition of leadership and a Leadership Development Plan (LDP) during its one-year journey, which were two of its primary goals. The third goal is the implementation of the LDP, and LDWG members are planning to guide the implementation in a more decentralized and community-centric way through the Leadership Development Network (LDN).

The Leadership Development Network will spread the shared understanding of movement leadership among the movement stakeholders, create an active community of movement leadership experts and practitioners, enhance the documents through trials and errors by the LDN partners, and make them more suitable for regional Wikimedia contexts. This is important to properly formulate the movement's leadership and build a shared understanding of this, which hasn’t been done yet.

Amplifying the LDN Work edit

We will involve movement stakeholders in the LDN and prompt them to take action that spreads a wider understanding of the movement's leadership. Stakeholders include affiliate and non-affiliate organized groups or Wikimedia entities that are interested in working on movement leadership.

We will encourage LDN partners to localize the LDWG documents, share the learnings with the rest of the networks periodically, and document that somewhere, which will help the movement understand how leadership varies depending on local contexts.

Approaches and Strategies edit

Ambassadorship One or more persons will be designated by the LDN partner entities; they will be called the LDN ambassadors. The LDN ambassadors will meet together online periodically.	Localization The Leadership Definition and the LDP will be localized (via translation or copying in the local wiki), and they will be used as a framework for nurturing the youth in the local communities. The local documents will also be changed according to regional needs.	Training Course The LDN partners will prepare one or more WikiLearn courses and translate them into their local languages, which can be helpful in nurturing movement leadership. The partners themselves will inspire the local community members to take the course and act according to it. The course will be built upon the Leadership Development Syllabus from Section 3 of the Leadership Development Plan drafted by the LDWG earlier.
Local Community Implementation Upon learning the Leadership Development Plan through courses and sharing it with LDN peers, interested communities may be able to implement it in their own communities with possible collaboration with the LDN and access the MSIG in line with the Invest in Skills and Leadership Development priority track.	Connect: Organise projects together: The LDN should be a platform for leadership-related projects that starts with the discussion of an initial idea, hosts a call for collaborators (with a set of goals and jobs to be done and the timeframe) and participants, and evaluates and archives these initiatives. The core goal here is to enable individuals and groups to gather around a common goal autonomously. Subject matter discussions on the database of sources:People comment on whether they think it's a reliable resource and how they intend to use it. Debate contentious issues (hierarchy, decision-making processes, etc.) Keeping the dialogue on leadership going: Suggest amendments to the leadership definition or other high-level documents for a given community, discuss other people's initiatives (both from the movement and elsewhere), and develop ideas for new projects. Providing formal leadership training: Organized by community members or by inviting guest-speakers	Inform Content:Database of sources (e.g. books on creativity, keynotes on public speaking) to use; commented on and linked to initiatives that used them. Archive: Log of past initiatives complete with documentation Advice: Instructions on how to make an LD initiative

Communication Channels edit

The Leadership Development Network encourages leadership development by connecting interested groups and users as well as by providing information about fostering skills and structures relevant to leadership. In its initial phase, the group wanted to invite everyone to register their names and the Wikimedia group on the list of participants and join our telegram channel.

	Leadership Development Network Pioneers