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RNIB Learning Disability and Sight Loss Top Tips Guides
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
This Open Badge is awarded to people who demonstrate awareness of RNIB’s top tips to support people living with a learning disability and sight loss. -
Leadership Thing 23 – Using leadership development
Scottish Social Services Council
There are a range of standards for various groups in the workforce which relate to leadership and management. All of these standards can be, and are, used to underpin leadership development activity and qualifications. You can also use them to help you guide your leadership development which in turn supports your career development. -
Leadership Thing 22 – Why leadership is important
Scottish Social Services Council
The first leadership strategy for social services in Scotland’s was published in 2013, informed by the evaluation of the Changing Lives policy from 2006 and the Leading Together research commissioned in 2010. Significant changes and challenges in the sector following that led to development of a revised strategy called Enhancing leadership capability. -
Leadership Thing 21 – What does good leadership look like?
Scottish Social Services Council
What does good leadership in Scotland’s Social Services look and feel like for those who work in them and those served by them? The 'Enabling Leadership' research commissioned by the SSSC in 2016 focussed on this and provides an overview of relevant leadership theory, a discussion about good leadership, information on contribution analysis and the core methodology used, a theory of change and the leadership logic model. -
Leadership Thing 20 – The supportive workplace
Scottish Social Services Council
To enable effective leadership at all levels, employers must create a supportive environment where social service workers can use and develop their own leadership skills to the best of their ability. It is crucial that your employer values and supports the development of your leadership capabilities as well as those of managers and of the people who use your service, their families and carers. -
Leadership Thing 19 – Citizen 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. Citizen Leadership is about recognising the leadership skills of people using services, supporting their leadership development and involving them to make sure services meet their needs. -
Leadership Thing 18 – Appreciative inquiry
Scottish Social Services Council
Appreciative inquiry is a way of looking at organisational change that focuses on doing more of what is already working. So instead of starting with ‘what’s the problem’ and looking for fixes it starts with ‘what’s already working’ and how can we build on that? This doesn’t mean we ignore problems; it just looks at it in a different way. -
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.