Last week as part of our Fire Starter Festival we convened a 'danger café'. What was our intention? To convene a conversation about the need for dangerous ideas to transform public services. Who came along? A really good mix of people…
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Igniting Inquiry: the (hidden) power of storytelling
Stories play a big part in how we make sense of our lives, our organisations, our world. They carry and shape our values; can limit or transform organisational cultures; and often shape political agendas. Yet many of us tend not…
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Workforce Scotland – December 2015 Newsletter
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Dialogue Community of Practice – December 2015
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Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens: invitation to shape a big, lively conversation on March 2nd 2016
Since 2013 the Scottish Leaders Forum has sponsored an initiative called ‘Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens’. This started with a question: ‘what is an assets approach to workforce development?’. Over the next two years, a growing reference group visited pioneering people and…
Dangerous Ideas and Starting fires…
‘Days of Danger’ have come to Scottish Government! I’m sure every day, is a day of danger for someone in Government but these particular days were created to stimulate and identify ideas that could challenge our thinking and orthodoxies of…
Pioneer Peer Learning Network – 30 November 2015
A major element of the Enabling Collaborative Leadership Pioneer Programme is sharing the learning from the Pioneer Sites through a Peer Learning Network which is programmed to meet three times during this year of learning. The first Peer Learning Network…
Co-creating the next U Lab event: notes from our first design meeting
Bring Yourself to Work
#BringYourselfToWork What does it mean to Bring Yourself to Work (BYTW)? Surely, that’s something we all do every working day? Or is it? We may bring our bodies and our minds to work, but many of us find…
Spotlight on… Participation Week
Read all about Participation Week by clicking on the image below.