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Supporting Leadership
This Open Badge is awarded to social services workers in Scotland who have worked through the corresponding Things in the SSSC 23 Things for Leadership programme and have been awarded the Open Badges for each.
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Leadership Thing 15 – What is supervision?
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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Leadership Thing 16 – What is coaching?
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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Leadership Thing 17 – What is action learning?
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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Leadership Thing 18 – Appreciative inquiry
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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Leadership Thing 19 – Citizen leadership
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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Leadership Thing 20 – The supportive workplace
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.
This Open Badge is awarded to social services workers in Scotland who have worked through the following Things in the SSSC 23 Things for Leadership programme and have been awarded the Open Badges for each.
- Thing 15: What is supervision?
- Thing 16: What is coaching?
- Thing 17: What is action learning?
- Thing 18: Appreciative inquiry.
- Thing 19: Citizen leadership.
- Thing 20: The supportive workplace.
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Scottish Social Services Council
Our work means the people of Scotland can count on social work, social care and children and young people services being provided by a trusted, skilled, confident and valued workforce.
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I confirm that I have read, understood and completed all the activities listed in the badge criteria and that each question from the criteria is answered in the evidence I have provided. My evidence has been written or recorded by me and I have not copied it from anywhere or anyone else. I understand that it will take 28 days for you to assess my application and that feedback cannot be provided if my application is unsuccessful.