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Leadership Thing 17 – What is action learning?
Scottish Social Services Council
Action Learning brings together small groups of people to develop solutions to real issues from the workplace, can encourage creative approaches to problem solving, can be an effective technique for collaborative leadership and tackles issues that people feel stuck with to provide new awareness and fresh ideas. -
Leadership Thing 16 – What is coaching?
Scottish Social Services Council
Coaching is an empowering way of supporting people to reach their potential. Using coaching skills in social services can develop your own and others’ leadership effectiveness whilst improving relationships, self-efficacy and motivation. -
Leadership Thing 15 – What is supervision?
Scottish Social Services Council
Supervision has a vital role to play in supporting and developing all social work and social services staff. Knowing more about the purpose of supervision and its importance for your practice can help you with your responsibilities as either a supervisor or supervisee. -
Leadership Thing 14 – Resilience and my self-leadership
Scottish Social Services Council
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce and everyone has a leadership role to play, whatever their role at work. Leadership begins with leading ourselves and the SSSC self-leadership capability includes being resilient. Resilience helps us to pursue our goals despite obstacles and setbacks. -
Leadership Thing 13 – The impact I have on others
Scottish Social Services Council
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce and everyone has a leadership role to play. Self-leadership is about recognising your own leadership skills and abilities, and taking responsibility for using and developing these. -
Leadership Thing 12 – Challenging oppressive practice
Scottish Social Services Council
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce and everyone has a leadership role to play. Self-leadership is about recognising your own leadership skills and abilities, and taking responsibility for using and developing these. Self-leadership also includes responding to and challenging discriminatory or oppressive practice. -
Leadership Thing 11 – The six leadership capabilities
Scottish Social Services Council
As a social service worker, the way that you exercise leadership will involve a range of skills, attitudes, values and behaviours and draw on the breadth of knowledge and experience gained from practice and from life. Thing 11 is an opportunity for you to appreciate how your own leadership shows. -
Leadership Thing 10 – Collaborating and influencing
Scottish Social Services Council
As a social service worker your leadership will often be apparent in how you work in partnership with people who use your service, as well as colleagues from your own organisation and other agencies or sectors. -
Leadership Thing 9 – Creativity and innovation
Scottish Social Services Council
In your day-to-day practice you may find you are in a good position to see how things could be done differently and better. Being creative and innovative doesn’t have to mean coming up with grand schemes that will transform the service. Small changes can have a big impact on the lives of the people who you support.