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4. Staying secure online self assessment
Scottish Social Services Council
This Open Badge is awarded to people who have completed a self-assessment exercise about staying secure online. They will have been recommended learning resources based on their responses and written about how they learned from these materials and improved their security habits. -
ELC Thing 23 – How can I use leadership development to support my career 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. -
ELC Thing 22 – Why is leadership important in Scotland’s social services?
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. -
ELC Thing 21 – What does good leadership look like in Scotland’s social services?
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? -
ELC Thing 20 – What does a supportive workplace look like?
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. -
ELC Thing 19 – What is citizen leadership and how can I promote it?
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. -
ELC Thing 18 – What is appreciative inquiry and how can I use it?
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. -
ELC Thing 17 – What is action learning and how can I use it?
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. -
ELC Thing 16 – What is coaching and how can I use it?
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.