Blog posts about Workforce Scotland
Working collectively across organisational & local boundaries to progress systemic issues Many of us work on complex, societal issues. We know that not one single organisation or individual can resolve these alone. They need a collective approach. This is the…
Read More Place-based System Leadership: Police & Local Government Work in Scotland
by Joan O’Donnell What do we do when we do not know what to do next, but are under pressure to do something? Too often something becomes anything, and anything is something that we have done before. Credit to: Photo…
Read More Growing Our 21st Century Collective Leadership Skills
I am delighted to see the development work for our Illuminating Leadership Festival reach such an exciting point. As we approach the end of another difficult year, and with the challenges of the new variant of Covid generating new concerns…
Looking around and listening to the conversations that are bubbling up, it feels like there is a strong sense of transition in the air. This includes a lot of questions around what living with Covid will be like in a post-vaccination…
Read More Global Leadership Campfires – 1 and 2 September 2021
As we rapidly move towards through the early months of the year, it seems that we are starting to get a better sense of what working in this year will be like and it felt like the right time to…
The current period of enforced online working can feel like it brings a lot of down-sides, and I certainly now find my mind drifting more frequently to the personal interactions and variety of events, meetings and locations that I am…
Blog by Janet Whitley, Team Lead for Collective Leadership for Scotland A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed as part of the Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector series: Our World Re-Imagined-Big Ideas for a…
Read More Interview with Our World Re-Imagined-Big Ideas for a Better Future
A response to the Facilitation Thought Piece, Guest blog by Sarah Taylor Introduction We are living in a world that appears to grow in complexity by the day. The challenges we face are multi-layered, continually evolving and ambiguous. It is…
Many colleagues will be aware that the Collective Leadership for Scotland Covid Response was the rapid development and delivery of the One Thing at a Time Programme, offered from April to June as an opportunity for connection and learning in…
Thought Piece Mini-Series - Part 1 Introduction For a long time we have struggled to articulate the process of facilitation that we believe to be important when working with collective leadership groups tackling complex issues. This art of facilitation doesn’t…
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