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This final working paper from the 'Effective leader-led relations' project summarises the key findings and recommendations from the research. In particular, it outlines: a brief overview of five central research findings: the vital importance of leadership, high staff motivation, leadership challenges, multiple community engagements and blended leadership; ten recommendations that are informed by these research findings (this research project was specifically designed to feed ideas back into the post-16 sector about how to enhance leadership processes); and an additional case study on blended leadership. A primary focus of our research is its examination of staff's perceptions of what constitutes effective leadership in the post-16 sector. This in turn reveals employees' preference for (what we term) 'blended leadership'. This theme is elaborated in the appendix of this paper, where we present a further case of blended leadership in action within the [further education] FE sector.