Step into Leadership

Self-leadership

Self-leadership is about recognising your own leadership skills and abilities, and taking responsibility for using and developing these. Self leadership involves:

• Seeking feedback from others and motivating yourself to improve your own leadership
• Being resilient and finding ways through challenging situations
• Taking positive risks, supported by your organisation
• Challenging discriminatory or oppressive practice.

Self-leadership Resources

• Using the Continuous Learning Framework’s personal capabilities This video gives a 3 minute overview of the personal capabilities explained in the Continuous Learning Framework and how they can help your continuous learning.
• 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 to make a difference.
• How good are your people skills? Quiz based on theories of emotional intelligence.
• Reflective practice - being a reflective practitioner
• Rock the boat without getting thrown off Engaging introduction to the concept of emotional intelligence and leadership capabilities.
• The change curve Mindtools looks first at the theory behind the Change Curve then at how you can use it to accelerate change and improve its likelihood of success.
• Resilience resources for social work and social care workers Social Work Scotland, Iriss and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have worked in partnership to draw together helpful resources for social service practitioners and their organisations to support them to think about and promote wellbeing and resilience.
• Exploring Courageous Leadership A paper summarising several events which asked people throughout Scotland to share their views on what it meant to be a 'courageous leader'.
• Everyday Leadership A resource from Skills for Care to support the development of leadership skills for frontline workers.

Podcasts

• Rania Hamad: criminal justice social worker
  Rania Hamad, a criminal justice social worker from Edinburgh City Council tells us about her leadership journey and how it has shaped her professional development as a practitioner.
  
   
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