Welcome to the Senior Leadership Gateway
Development Tools for Senior Leaders in Health and Social Care
The Senior Leadership Gateway (SLG) offers a suite of development tools to help support you, or others in your team, review current capability and experience in relation to that required to operate successfully in a chief executive or director level role. The tools may also help in preparing for annual appraisals and for future values-based recruitment processes.
Planning our leadership
Succession planning is a key component of workforce planning. Having a national pipeline of senior leaders is critical to ensure organisations achieve their strategic objectives. Talent Management seeks to attract, identify, develop, engage and retain individuals who make a significant difference to the organisation.
Leadership Success Profiles (LSPs)
The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) focuses on leadership behaviours, personality, values and motivation and transition requirements. It was developed in collaboration with key stakeholders including current Chief Executives, Board Chairs and senior leaders in Scottish Government and partners in the wider public sector. Its purpose is to underpin an inclusive approach which describes the leadership characteristics required to build inclusive cultures and to support the attraction, appointment, and retention of a diverse population of chief executives and director level roles. It outlines the breadth of qualities, experience and motivations needed from chief executives and directors both now and in the future.
How the Leadership Success Profile (LSP) underpins a national approach
The success profile has been designed to be applied to a range of contexts and to provide a foundation for the development of a national pipeline of future chief executives and directors and can be applied to a range of contexts:
Engaging future senior leaders
Assessing readiness for future roles
Developing capability
Succession planning
Recruitment and selection
Induction and onboarding
Continued support and development
Mentoring
Chief Executives, directors and those aspiring to those roles can all benefit from executive mentoring from role models who have expertise operating at the most senior levels in public services in Scotland. Mentors can offer timely, context-specific counsel drawn from their experience and wisdom as well as connection to networks that are highly relevant to the problems to be solved. The mentoring relationship does not necessarily require to be hierarchical, and peer mentoring relationships can be just as valuable.