The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.
Senior Leaders course information
This page contains information you need to know before the SCVO Senior Leaders Programme commences. Please review it carefully as there are actions for you to take ahead of your introductory session in February 2022.
Your Responsibilities
By taking part in our SCVO Senior Leaders Programme, we expect you to:
- Participate fully in each zoom session
- Carry out the directed work each month
- Use Slack to regularly check in with your cohort between sessions, ask questions and update your directed work
The success of the Programme sits with you and your fellow cohort members. Commitment of both time and input – before, during and after the sessions – is vital to ensure you achieve the most for you and your organisation.
Zoom sessions
Each session will start at 9.30 a.m. with input from an expert speaker and finish at 12:30 p.m.
Each session utilises Action Learning methodology where you will challenge and be challenged by your peers and explore the topic together. Sessions are a safe, supportive and confidential space.
The first session is an introduction where you will be given the opportunity to begin unravelling your organisations’ key issues and start to develop your evolution road map.
Following the introduction session you will take part in four topic-based sessions and one final ‘your evolution map’ session.
Please be aware that each zoom session will be sent out as an outlook calendar invitation.
Directed Work
On occasion at the end of a session you may be asked to carry out topic based directed work. It is anticipated that this work should take no longer than 20 minutes to complete and can be done on your own and/ or with your team, for example, write down and share on Slack your organisation’s Digital mission.
Slack Community - Communicating as a group
We want to ensure that the conversations as a cohort flow throughout your programme. To enable you to support each other, share thoughts, resources, challenges and break throughs each Cohort will use the Senior Leaders Slack Group.
All directed work, session reminders and information will be sent to you using Slack.
Action for you ahead of your first session
Download the free Slack desktop app and the mobile app from the App store (iPhone) or Google Play store (Android) and join the SCVO Senior leader Slack workspace. When you have joined please do say ‘hello’.
You will then be added to your private Cohort Slack group.
Action for you in preparation for the introduction
Ahead of your introduction we ask that you to prepare a 3-minute presentation using a reduced PechaKucha method. We’d like you do 10X20, that’s 10 images (no text) @ 20 seconds each, which you can upload to slack before the first session and deliver on the day.
We want to hear:
- more about you
- a brief overview of your organisation, and
- information on the key challenge(s) your organisation is facing that you would like to address as part of this Programme.
Please use whichever presentation tool and/or app you feel comfortable with.
Cohort participants
| Name | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Alan Campbell | Social Print & Copy CIC |
| Liz Green | Youthlink Scotland |
| Joan McNeill | Clan Childlaw |
| Eddie Nisbet | Youthlink Scotland |
| Naomi Barnes | Community Carrot |
| Elaine Mowat | PAS |
| Lynne Robertson | Inspire PTL |
| Stacey Wood | Dundee Carer's Centre |
| Sue Freeth | LifeCare |
| Kelsey Kane | South Ayrshire Escape from Homelessness (SeAscape Ltd) |
| John Sharp | The Boy's Brigade |
Session dates and topics
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| Tues 1 Feb | Leadership Strategy, empowerment, communication, motivation and empathy |
| Tues 1 Mar | Culture Creating a culture of inclusion, innovation and collaboration |
| Tues 29 Mar | Design thinking Understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions |
| Tues 26 Apr | Impact Use data as a driver of growth, innovation and improvement |
| Tues 24 May | Cyber threats and resilience Understand the risks that can be posed by technology, mitigating and responding to threats |
| Mon 20 June | Road mapping and celebration event Review and reflect on your digital journey and map out your organisation's next steps. The opportunity to reflect on how far you have come! |
Other queries
If there is anything further you would like to clarify before the course starts, please contact Maddie using maddie.stark@scvo.scot or direct message on Slack.
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