Step into Leadership

Self-leadership

As a corporate or strategic leader you have a clear leadership role in relation to your organisation and, where appropriate, the community. Your leadership will have an impact on the vision and ethos of the organisation, on its managers and staff and on the quality of the experience of people who use the service.

Being aware of your own leadership style, strengths and areas for development is a good starting point in developing self-leadership.

Self-leadership includes:

• aiming to continuously improve your own leadership capability, through critical reflection and feedback from a range of sources
• uusing research and evidence to assess, manage and evaluate the risks taken on behalf of the organisation to achieve better outcomes for individuals, families and the community.

Self-leadership Resources

• Practice Learning Qualifications Supporting leadership learning.
• How good are your people skills? Quiz to establish people skills (based on emotional intelligence theories). Links in to other resources on Mindtools.com.
• Reflective practice - being a reflective practitioner
• Decision making and social work in Scotland
• Rock the boat without getting thrown off Engaging introduction to the concept of emotional intelligence and leadership capabilities.
• 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.