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ELC Leadership 23 Things – Completed Them All
This badge is awarded to social services workers in Scotland who have worked through the SSSC ELC Leadership 23 Things programme, and have successfully earned the Open Badges attached to each of the 23 things.
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ELC Thing 1 – Why is everyday leadership important
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce, as well as citizen leadership from people who access support and their carers. The vision for leadership at all levels in social services means that everyone has a leadership role to play. -
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ELC Thing 10 – Collaborating and influencing: how do I exercise leadership in working with others?
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. -
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ELC Thing 11 – The six leadership capabilities
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. -
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ELC Thing 12 – Challenging discriminatory or oppressive practice
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. -
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ELC Thing 13 – The impact I have on others
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. -
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ELC Thing 14 – Resilience and my self-leadership
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. -
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ELC Thing 15 – What is supervision and why do we do it?
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. -
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ELC Thing 16 – What is coaching and how can I use it?
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. -
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ELC Thing 17 – What is action learning and how can I use it?
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. -
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ELC Thing 18 – What is appreciative inquiry and how can I use it?
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. -
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ELC Thing 19 – What is citizen leadership and how can I promote it?
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. -
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ELC Thing 2 – Leadership/Management
Management and leadership qualities often overlap but there are distinct differences in the skills that each one requires. It is important to understand the difference between the two. -
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ELC Thing 20 – What does a supportive workplace look like?
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. -
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ELC Thing 21 – What does good leadership look like in Scotland’s social services?
What does good leadership in Scotland’s Social Services look and feel like for those who work in them and those served by them? -
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ELC Thing 22 – Why is leadership important in Scotland’s social services?
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. -
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ELC Thing 23 – How can I use leadership development to support my career development?
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. -
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ELC Thing 3 – What’s my leadership style?
The purpose of reflecting on leadership is to gain a better understanding of yourself (your values, knowledge and skills), so you can learn from your experiences, and adapt and respond to new leadership challenges. -
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ELC Thing 4 – What do others say about my leadership?
360 degree assessment is a process in which you rate your own leadership performance, and ask people who know you well in a work capacity to rate your performance too. These feedback tools are designed to help you reflect on your leadership capability and identify your strengths and areas for development. -
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ELC Thing 5 – How do I show vision as a leader?
Vision for social service workers means thinking about such questions as: How could things be better for the people who use our service? What can I do to make this happen? What part can I play in achieving my organisation’s vision? How do I ensure that those I work with share this vision, and are committed to achieving it? How do I encourage improvements in performance? -
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ELC Thing 6 – What does self-leadership mean for me?
Self-leadership is about recognising your own leadership skills and abilities, and taking responsibility for using and developing these. The way you exercise self-leadership influences how you demonstrate all other leadership capabilities in your practice. -
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ELC Thing 7 – Motivating and inspiring others
Through your day-to-day practice you can motivate and inspire other people in many ways. -
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ELC Thing 8 – Empowering leadership
Through your day-to-day practice you may find you have opportunities to empower others. -
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ELC Thing 9 – Creative and innovative leadership
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.
This Open Badge will close to new applications on Sunday 24 August 2025. Please submit your evidence before then if you wish to achieve this badge.
This badge is awarded to social services workers in Scotland who have worked through the SSSC ELC Leadership 23 Things programme, and have successfully earned the Open Badges attached to each of the 23 things.
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Scottish Social Services Council
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