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Operational Leaders Leadership Success Profile: Supporting your Leadership Development

David Taylor shares how the newly developed Leadership Success Profile (LSP) supports operational leaders across social work, social care and health in Scotland.
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Finding Joy and Hope through Empowered Systems: Visiting a Community Appointment Day

In light of Allied Health Professions Day, Helen Moores-Poole shares a story of joy and hope involving the initiative Community Appointment Days.
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New tools to support leaders with the Leadership Success Profile – Mindtools

Written by Michaela Pagani and Sara Dewar from the Leading to Change team. We are delighted to share that as part of the launch of our Leadership Success Profile (LSP), we have collaborated with Mindtools to bring you...
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Introducing the Leadership Success Profile: A New Chapter in Leadership Development

We are proud to unveil the new Leadership Success Profile (LSP)—a thoughtfully designed framework to support and develop leaders across Scotland’s social work, social care, health, third and voluntary sectors. This ma...
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The leaders who shaped my view of the world

In this blog, Cristina Fernandez-Garcia, a Specialist Lead in NES, shares some of the leaders who have inspired her throughout her career journey.
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Leadership Bites – Second helpings and Series 2

After a successful first series of Leadership Bites, we have developed Series 2: Communication Skills for Leadership.
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Why violence against women is a workplace issue

In this blog, Collett O’Connor, Programme Officer for Close the Gap, discusses why violence against women is a workplace issue across all sectors and what leaders can do to help drive change.
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Beyond Bystander

Have you ever witnessed a microaggression at work and not known what to do? In this blog, Dr Toby Merriman shares his experience of this and what he did next.
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Failing Better

Brendan Clarke shares how failing better, and taking time to celebrate the fails, can help build confidence, learning and also quieten the voice of our inner critic in the process.
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The People and Purpose behind the NHS Scotland Ethnic Minority Forum

The NHS Scotland Ethnic Minority Forum (EMF) provides a space for representatives of local staff ethnic minority networks to come together on a regular basis to share issues and best practice.
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Reclaiming Narratives: Doing vs. Being

In this leadership blog, Christiana Ekpete seeks to challenge the narratives that shape the stories we grew into and how we can evolve from doing to being, in rewriting our own story.
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An introduction to NES Social Care Directorate

John Burns, Head of Programme for Social Care Directorate in NES shares an introduction to the team and the commission that they are committed to.
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