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Leadership in health and care
You will find resources here that will help you to develop your leadership skills and approach to enable you to empower, inspire and work with others within social care, social work and health in Scotland. The resources are aligned with the six leadership capabilities.
You are invited to explore these resources in any order and at your own pace. The resources can be used in several ways:
- To deepen and broaden your knowledge in areas of interest and relevance to you
- To enhance your awareness of your personal effectiveness and impact in your role
- To support and prepare for your personal development plan discussions with your line manager
- To evidence progress towards achieving personal development and career goals
The resources have been organised into two sections titled Core and Featured. Select the link icon on the right hand side where available to be taken direct to the external resource.
Core resources
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Various events, papers and reports from The King's Fund showing their work on leading across organisational boundaries
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If you are interested in hearing direct from Ron Heifetz, then see a clip on YouTube in which he explains more about "adaptive challenges" versus "technical problems".
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If you are interested in reading more about “Theory U”, C. Otto Scharmer has written a book entitled Theory U: Learning from the Future as it Emerges. This link will take you to his website where you can view a video on "Theory U".
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Working with complexity and unconscious dynamics
This Leadership Links webinar with Allison Trimble will consider what might be going on when we seem unable to lead well or we just can't make the changes we know need to happen, particularly in times of uncertainty and change.
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Collaboration in action
This session is presented by Kirsty Leishman. It builds on the proposition that by better ‘seeing’ ourselves in action we can become more attuned to strengthening mutual, working relationships.
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Social leadership
This webinar explores core aspects of Social Leadership, including some practical steps we can take to build this into our professional practice, with a particular takeaway for consideration: ‘Story Listening’.
Featured resources
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The article 'Accessing the Blind Spot: The U Process as seen through the lens of developmental action inquiry' takes Otto Scharmer's Theory U and views it through a lens of developmental action inquiry.
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A pioneering approach to communicating in business and in life, by William Isaacs (Doubleday, 1999).
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Change by design : leading through creativity and innovation
This webinar by Hazel White and Mike Press will introduce you to the key concepts of design thinking and show practical examples of how it has been applied in health and social care.