By Team Lead Janet Whitley It is over 12 years since I joined Scottish Government, on a secondment from a career in Higher Education where it was clear to me that I needed a change. I didn’t really know what…
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Blog posts about Workforce Scotland
Coaching for Systemic Change
Seeking to work and lead collectively in pursuit of systemic change at times like these can feel uncertain, exhausting and disorientating, however much it feels like the right thing to do. We have been exploring the potential role of coaching to…
Place-based System Leadership: Police & Local Government Work in 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…
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Growing Our 21st Century Collective Leadership Skills
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…
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The Light and Shade of Collective Leadership
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…
Global Leadership Campfires – 1 and 2 September 2021
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…
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Forward Look Blog: February 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…
How can we raise each other up?
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…
Interview with Our World Re-Imagined-Big Ideas for a Better Future
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…
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Facilitation from the Heart
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…
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