Leadership skills
This area has been created to help you explore the possibilities in leadership and improve skills required within these roles.
There are many areas to consider when it comes to leadership. It is about inspiration, leading by example, empowerment, trust and guidance. It's a dynamic process involving skills like decision-making, communication, and can be demonstrated by anyone, not just those with formal authority
Leadership and management
We have split this section into several sub-sections to help you find what you need.
You can quick select an area from this list:
Self Assessment
Self-awareness is a great strength to have. The ability to look at yourself, realise your strengths and acknowledge your weaknesses or areas for development, will help your team and others to trust and rely on you.
To begin this section, take a few minutes to assess your management practice because it will help you decide where to start your journey. This self-assessment form is a good source of evidence for your annual development review when it comes.
Self-management
To contribute to a better working environment, self-management is an important skill to have.
Controlling your own emotions, thoughts, growth and behaviour, is crucial for success in both personal and professional life.
The following area provides resources on:
- Influencing and negotiating
- Resilience
- Values
- Change
- Management
- Presentation and communication
Managing teams and others
Developing your skills and growing as a person will improve your ability to manage a team and contribute to the success of an organisation.
Demonstrating the ability to grow and develop will show others that you are happy to lead by example, trust and support.
The following area will help you improve areas in:
- Managing a team
- Managing performance
- Delegating
- Deal with conflict
- HR Management
Delegation and Empowerment
Our ODLL area brings together several resources for Leadership and breaks down what it is to be an effective, inspirational leader in your life and work.
The link below will take you to the Managing teams and others area, where you will find resources on:
- Good Practice
- Delegation
- Empowering
- Accountability
Managing and leading in organisations
Driving the organisation toward its goals, and giving it the best possibility of achieving these, is a vital part of a leadership role. Not only does your team rely on you for your guidance and strength, the organisation also depends on you for your care, value, focus and leadership.
In this section, you will find resources on:
- Context for health and care
- Governance
- Values and cultures
- Equality and diversity
- Change and innovation
Delve Deeper
The purpose of this Leadership area is to provide you with an easy point of access to a range of development resources about leadership and management. You may currently be in a leadership role wanting to develop your capabilities, or you might be aspiring to develop as a leader, or you might wish to support others' learning. In this site, you will find: toolkits; events; topics; programmes; and links.
No matter why you are here, we aim to help you achieve, progress and grow in your aims and goals.
You can find even more information by delving deeper into the following resources: