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Support for Leadership in Highland Project
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A web site has been set up to enable participants in the leadership project to share ideas and examples of good practice: http://highland-leadership.sitc.co.uk/ Background to the project The Education Culture and Sport Service of the Council is evolving its locality based Associated School Groups into Integrated Learning Communities (ILC) through the closer involvement of Community Learning and Leisure staff in joint planning and delivery of strategies. Developing such groups into bodies that are genuinely integrated, learning and communities will present the service with significant challenges over the next few years. In this context, the Support for Leadership in Highland project aims to: Promote Integrated Learning Communities as a collegial environment for personal and collective leadership growth and as a context for transformation through the development of common purpose, ethos and action in support of community. Practical strategies for leadership development will involve engaging with leaders to work through current concerns using existing good practice together with a longer term and collective context within the community. Develop the competencies, confidence and capacities of staff to be highly successful in the work that they do. Individuals wishing to develop their leadership skills will initially be asked to self assess their abilities in relation to the Highland Council competency framework. This will provide a basis for clarification of the leadership attributes that the person would hope to gain through leadership enriched projects. It would also clarify the skills that the person could contribute to the leadership development of others. The participant would be expected to grow their role and contribution to the Integrated Learning Community. Inspire, excite and support staff at all levels in the Service in enhanced leadership roles in preparation for career progression. The project will explicitly seek to place professionals in ongoing contact and dialogue with contexts which demand a higher and wider level of leadership skills. Leadership support would extend the concepts of coaching and mentoring to engage with those professionals with the potential for more senior posts in order to transform this into well-founded aspiration to take up such posts. Application to join the Support for Leadership in Highland Project is open to all individuals having a management responsibility in the ECS Service. |
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