Action Learning Set: Support for Middle Leadership in Multi- agency settings

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Action Learning Set Support for Middle
Leadership in Multi- agency settings

• Summary of progress January 20th 2006.
• Output from questionnaires
• What types of training / development are
  required?
• What does the training need to focus on?
• Championing Children initiative
• ASPECT How they might be able to help us

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Output from questionnairesWhat types of training
/ development are required?

• Supportive and challenging mentorship ( good role
  models )
• Self-directed learning programmes
• On-line learning programmes
• Action Learning Sets which allow people to
  develop a real understanding of how their own
  behaviour and its impact upon others and service
  delivery.
• Work shadowing in other agencies / learning
  alongside
• Multi-agency workshops / training events
• Mixed groups not silos
• Not death by overheads / PP
• Interactive using participants experiences
• Easily accessible ( regional) venues

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Output from questionnairesWhat does the training
need to focus on?

• Training / development needs to focus on the
  following
• key leadership /management activities
• Leading and managing change
• Linking strategy and service delivery
• Understanding the gap between strategic vision
  for change and its impact on practice, and how to
  close the gap.
• Establishing priorities for service delivery
• Leading and managing multi-agency teams and
  partnerships leadership v management
• Effective working in matrix management
  environments
• Forming a personal vision for integrated working
  and transmitting this to front line workers
• Leading through networks political and cultural
  leadership
• Effective Partnership Working

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Output from questionnairesWhat does the training
need to focus on?

• Monitoring contacts / partnership agreement
  outcomes
• Motivating and empowering others
• Negotiating skills
• Mentoring and coaching skills
• Facilitating meetings of multi-agency groups
• Networking establishing effective informal
  working relationships
• The implications of the diversity and inclusion
  agenda

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Output from questionnairesWhat does the training
need to focus on?

• To ensure that middle leaders are effective in
  the key leadership and Management areas training
  / development needs to help them to develop
  their
• Knowledge and Understanding of
• Different organisations/agencies key roles,
  language ( lexicon), policies, governance issues
  and legislation
• Effective Commissioning
• Change management processes
• Effective multi-agency /partnership working
  approaches
• Effective matrix management approaches
• Training / development needs to help middle
  leaders to develop the following Personal
  attributes
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Confidence and optimism
• Training / development needs to support middle
  leaders to develop the following Skills Sets
• Negotiating skills
• Questioning skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Coaching and \ mentorship skills
• Project Management skills

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Available Support Championing Children

• DfES www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/deliveringserv
  ices/championingchildren/
• A shared set of skills, knowledge and behaviours
  for those leading and managing integrated
  childrens services
• This is a tool with a variety of use, but a
  single purpose to establish a common
  understanding about the distinctive and different
  abilities required by managers of childrens
  services who are responsible for teams that
  include professionals from different sectors and
  backgrounds and for services that break the
  mould

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Available Support Championing Children

• It highlights seven aspects of management and
  /or leadership, all but one of which map directly
  onto either the Leadership and Management
  Standards or the Common Core for the frontline
  childrens workforce. Under each heading is a
  description of how it applies distinctively to
  managers of multi-agency childrens services. The
  headings are
• Achieving outcomes
• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the
  child
• Providing direction
• Leading and Managing Change
• Working with people
• Managing information
• Communicating and engaging effectively with
  children, young people and families

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Available Support Championing Children

• It isolates what is important and distinctive
  about the abilities required by managers of
  multi-agency or integrated childrens services.
  It aims to establish a shred set of skills,
  knowledge and behaviours, towards which managers
  from any sector and across a range of settings
  can work
• Directors and senior managers in local agencies
  can use this set as a tool for workforce
  strategies, including recruitment, development
  and workforce planning and re-modelling in he
  context of the national and local actions
  described in the Childrens Workforce Strategy.
  It can also support development of performance
  management frameworks.
• Generic management and leadership development
  programmes targeted at relevant sectors should
  also take account of these competencies, so that
  participants are helped to identify how their
  existing skills can transfer to their new role
  and how what they are learning now applies to
  their specific role.

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Available Support Championing Children

• This is a resource with the holistic needs of
  children at its heart, underpinned by the desire
  to change the culture and values of childrens
  services forever, so that they are inclusive,
  holistic, responsive and ambitious. It gives a
  very strong message that the values underpinning
  Every Child Matters need to drive that
  transformation.
• THE TOOL KIT IS CURRENTLY BEING PILOTTED IN
• BALCKBURN WITH DAWIN
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE
• BRISTON
• ESSEX
• SOUTHWARK
• WARINGTON AND WILTSHIRE
• The pilot phase runs until march/April 06, after
  which, and following evaluation of the feedback,
  the national roll-out will take place.

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ASPECT

• The Association of Professionals in Education and
  Childrens Trusts
• Formerly NAEIAC www.aspect.org.uk
• Head of training and professional development
  Judith Hibbert
• Judith is currently putting together a list of
  provision / providers who may be helpful to us.