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#5 Leading and managing across boundaries
To earn this Open Badge, you should use the resources on our Step into Leadership website to help you meet the criteria below. You may also wish to reflect on other leadership learning you have undertaken that contributes to you meeting the criteria e.g. a formal leadership programme you have undertaken or leadership learning that has been delivered by your organisation.
Provide evidence that you are able to:
- identify and make good use of opportunities for collaboration and cooperation across organisational and professional boundaries, both internal and external, as well as with people who use services, families and carers
- communicate clearly and effectively across boundaries including actively listening to, seeking understanding and taking account of, differing perspectives
- build and maintain trust with colleagues in your own, and other, agencies
- explore challenging issues and express constructive dissent when required, even if this feels risky and there is pressure to conform
- foster a culture of openness, collaboration and cooperation in the design, planning and delivery of services
- lead and manage collaborative work with networks, communities, other professionals and organisations, engaging partners and other stakeholders in shared decision-making
- ensure that partnership working and integrated services stay clearly focused on outcomes for people who use services, families and carers.
Submit your application
The SSSC Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: "In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own." The SSSC will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge