This part of the Leadership pathway is all about developing your personal leadership style even further, and how you may support others in the workplace. The Learning is broken into three key areas as before – Click through the green bars to access them below
Leading yourself
Leading others
Leading within an organisation.
Leading Yourself
This section is all about self leadership.
In this section you will find one module looking at self leadership and integrity alongside a resource developed by NHS Lothian and Animate about leadership.
The resource has lots of information in it as well as sessions you can facilitate with your team to explore leadership in more detail.
It also has bits of theory throughout so you can expand your leadership even further.
Reflection
Self leadership is important and understanding ourselves is an important factor in understanding our leadership. Have a think about the following:
- How do you demonstrate critical awareness of your own strengths and limitations and the impact of your behaviour on others?
- How do you adapt to different people and situations while remaining authentic?
- How do you take responsibility for your own emotions and prejudices and understand how these can affect your judgment and behaviour?
Unconscious Bias
You may find it useful to complete an unconscious bias test if you haven’t done already. These can be good to reflect on your own beliefs and ideas and think about ourselves in a new light.
If you took the test were there any surprises for you?
In the Developing Section we highlighted the following courses as being suitable for aspiring managers in social care, if you haven’t already explored them, they do provide additional resources and learning:
Leading Others
This section has been split into two themes.
One is around leading people, and some of the challanges that can arise while doing so.
The second theme is all about risk and change
Challenges in Leadership
you may already have many skills and examples of when you have managed difficult situations, the resources below are provided for you to explore further:
Risk and Change
With any new project or new initiative, there will be risk and challenges alongside the benefits. Otherwise the change would be easy.
While completing these modules, have a think about a time where a change didn’t go as planned. What did you do? How did you overcome it?
Reflection
Have a think about how you lead change and others at work. We know change can be unsettling for a lot of people. Reflect on the following:
- How do you tolerate uncertainty and the risk of failure while supporting creativity, innovation and experimentation within teams and services?
- How do you ensure that staff retain a clear focus on people who use services, families and carers while adapting to change and discontinuity?
- How do you provide a range of channels for staff to provide feedback on change?
- Is there anything you could implement or already do to keep staff, and the people you care for informed of changes? What works? What doesn’t work?
Leading within an Organisation
This section has been split into two themes.
The first one is around transformation.
The second theme is all about the practicalities of being a leader
Transformation:
Consider the following questions:
How can we all work together to solve some of the big issues in health and social care?
Why is working across boundaries important?
Transformation is a complex topic – the following modules may support you in developing an understanding to the previous questions:
Practicalities of being a leader:
How can you plan effectively and make sure quality is at the heart of everything we do?
Two SSSC Open Badges explore this question further:
Reflections
What networks do you use for change and sharing across organisations?
What information do you need?
Where could you get this?
How do you foster a good working relationship across different organisations?
Next Steps
Now you have undertaken some of the leadership activities provided here and through TURAS and SSSC you may want to develop further by accessing these additional learning opportunities:
Leading to Change
Leading to Change offers a range of leadership development programmes, opportunities and support for health, social care, and social work leaders to help you make a difference.
New Horizons
New Horizons is an online course hosted on TURAS and is aimed at new and emerging leaders and managers to support the development of their leadership capability and capacity
You as a Collaborative Leader
You as a Collaborative Leader (YaCL) is a programme addressing an appetite for leadership support for health and social care integration in Scotland. YaCL provides health and social services professionals with the skills and knowledge to collaborate across the integration agenda effectively. The programme is offered in partnership by NHS Education for Scotland and Leading to Change
Leading for the Future:
A 10 month development programme for senior leaders
Well done you have reached the end stage of the Leadership Pathway!
We hope that you have managed to complete some of the SSSC Open Badges along the way.
Remember also that you can use any of your reflective work towards supervision, continuous professional learning (CPL) requirements.
We hope you have enjoyed the resources provided and that your activities and reflections aid you in your development.
These pages will continue to develop, so please do pop back again!
If you have any feedback questions or queries please do not hesitate to get in touch with us through the Lothian Care Academy inbox
