Outline

This project will support CVS boards and senior staff to develop their skills for dynamic, creative and collaborative leadership with a view to enabling them to better support and facilitate voluntary organisations to effect, anticipate, prepare for and influence change.

Activities

The Leading in Change project will commence with an analysis of the leadership and governance skills and capacities that CVS, and the CVS network, require to respond effectively to emerging agendas, changes and challenges. Learning and developmental needs across the network in relation to this will also be identified. In this we will draw on research collected by Cranfield University into governance and leadership in the Scottish voluntary sector, from which aggregate, non attributable, findings about CVS will be available.

The above information and analysis will inform design of the following:

· A leadership development programme for CVS Chairs and Chief Officers

· A governance development programme for CVS board members

· CVS Chief Officer mentoring

While these programmes will aim primarily to meet the needs of CVS, scope will be explored for opening learning and development opportunities to voluntary sector infrastructure organisations more generally.

Impact on CVS

· CVS Chief Officers and boards will benefit from learning and development support programmes tailored to their needs

· CVS will be better able to identify aspects of internal governance and leadership practice that require further development

· The CVS network will benefit from the sharing of skills and knowledge through peer interaction in the course of learning and development programmes

Further details

For further information contact John Davidson, Leading In Change Project Coordinator, on 0141 225 8021 or email john.davidson@scvo.org.uk.