Posts in Transforming Leadership
Striving for more Inclusive Recruitment

Create Gloucestershire is continually looking at ways we can be a more inclusive employer. And over the past couple of years we have made lots of significant changes to our recruitment process to make it as flexible and accessible as possible.

We’ve put this blog together to share our learning about what we did. And at the bottom of the page you’ll find a checklist that we hope you’ll find useful.

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Leadership Conversations: Vicci Livingstone Thompson

Leadership Conversation No.7

Vicci Livingstone Thompson is CEO of Inclusion Gloucestershire - a charity and user led organisation run for and by disabled people. Her strong leadership style and passion for collaborative working and co-production is evident. Vicci talks to Louise Emerson about her own life experience, the challenges and opportunities that have arisen through the Covid pandemic and a sustainable future for Inclusion Glos.

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Leadership Conversations: Sally Byng on ‘Unlearning’ assumptions about leadership

Leadership Conversation No.6

For our next leadership conversation Sally has focused her thoughts on the importance of inner work; our own ‘personal leadership’ which is rooted in values that guide us when making decisions about how to react, respond and behave…

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Leadership Conversations: Louise Emerson reminds us to be curious, in order to adapt

Leadership Conversation No.5

We are delighted to continue our leadership conversations with Louise Emerson who is a business consultant in the cultural & charity sector. Louise was previously CEO of Cheltenham Festivals and Head of Commercial Strategy at the Natural History Museum. She is an accredited Coach/Mentor working with leaders and managers in the NHS, Media, Culture, Pharma sectors, as well as, entrepreneurs.

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Leadership conversations: how to find a voice for those who don't have one

Leadership Conversation No.3

Aysha Randera works in women’s development at the Friendship café in Gloucester. She has been successfully designing and implementing ways to give the unrepresented a voice for a very long time both within the local inner city community and more widely, you could say her leadership journey started when she was 14yrs old. She is a participant on the Catalyst Leadership programme run by Create Gloucestershire and Nowhere.

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Leadership Conversations: Why good leaders need to liberate creativity to re-build a better world after Covid 19.

Leadership Conversation No.2

It is a cliché now to say that the world has changed. But it has and the consequences for Leaders will be profound. - the virus has reinforced the case for the kind of changes that were already needed and has, maybe, created a world more prepared to accept radical shifts.

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catalyst: applications for Train the Trainers – an Opportunity

We are looking for 2-3 people interested in taking part in a new Train the Trainers course starting in February 2020. Create Gloucestershire (CG) is offering this opportunity to meet additional need in our team for facilitators, trainers and coaches as we grow over the next 3 years. You don’t need to be a coach, trainer or facilitator to apply: we are more interested in finding people with a passion to bring about individual and creative change in Gloucestershire with an open and optimistic mind set.

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catalyst: a development programme for people in Gloucestershire who want to kickstart and sustain change

We are delighted to have been selected by Arts Council England to develop a leadership development programme to address specific issues around diversity in leadership - amongst 18 fabulous other projects nationwide. We will be posting more about our project in the coming weeks but in the meantime please take a look at the ace website to find out more about the programme.

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/fund…/transforming-leadership Arts Council England 

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