Step into Leadership

Welcome to the leadership learning pathway for people who use social services in Scotland and others who support them such as carers.

This pathway will help you find learning resources such as:

• training modules
• activities
• reading materials
• videos and sound clips.

These resources will help you to develop your leadership skills.

What does leadership mean for me?

Developing your leadership skills will help you in lots of ways. These could include:

• being actively involved in decisions about your own life
• encouraging others to speak up about their support needs and become an active partner in their own care
• getting involved in staff training
• asking questions about the way things are done and making suggestions about how they could be done better
• getting involved in groups to influence local and national policy or helping others to have the confidence to do this.

You may have heard people talking about Citizen Leadership. Citizen Leadership is about a change of relationship between people who use services and people who provide them. In this new relationship people as citizens take on shared responsibility for making sure services meet their needs.

Ideas for getting started

• Thinking about leadership
  You might want to think about how you want or need to develop as a leader. We have included some tools to help you plan your pathway.
• Explore leadership capabilities and learning resources
  You will find six leadership capabilities in the box above. Leadership capabilities describe the different things that make up good leadership. Click on a leadership capability above to access learning resources and find information about how to develop your skills in that area.