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 consolidate and extend 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.
Core resources
This webinar 'Seeing into systems' with John Atkinson introduces ideas about how to see the dynamics in human systems. It offers an opportunity to explore how to create adaptive approaches to change.
What will you get out of this webinar?
- An introduction to ideas about how to see the dynamics in human systems
- Some practices and approaches that surface opportunities and challenges in your everyday work.
- An opportunity to explore how to create adaptive approaches to change.
- A process that raises your awareness and sensitivity to variations in your work environment that can be invaluable in leading change.
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Collaboration often adds complexity and confusion to roles that are already demanding, and there are no simple answers. Both managing and leading are practices informed by theory, in which our experience is a key resource – if we engage with it thoughtfully.
This webinar will introduce tools for reflective practice to help provide ways of characterising problems and finding the source of difficulties. We then connect with two possible ways that we can address the problems and difficulties in collaboration, through robust managerial action or positive leadership. Both approaches are possible: there is no single right way, and either approach comes with costs and consequences which are touched on.
Through this webinar you are invited to:
- think about your own ways of contributing to, managing or leading collaborations;
- begin to explore how reflective practice can provide insights into the complex problems that arise;
- begin to consider how you might intervene to address the problems with which to expand your thinking via simple acts of inquiry.
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This session is presented by Graham Leicester. It explores the theory and practice of Transformative Innovation in health and social care. It is about deliberately shifting systems over time towards new patterns of viability, fit for a changing world and in tune with our aspirations for the future.
Featured resources
This webinar provides you with a practical framework to influence collaboration by considering each of your key stakeholders, their agendas and how they are positioned regarding what you want to happen. It shows you how to analyse your stakeholders and begin to build an effective strategy to influence those who matter most.
What you will get out of the session?
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Greater appreciation for the role of influencing in achieving results
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Understanding of the role of an influencer in the NHS Scotland / Public Sector
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Learning how to apply a practical approach to collaboration and engagement
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Developing a clear (and simple) strategy to make collaboration work
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