This episode focuses on leadership skills and style - in particular the crucial role of feedback which can sometimes be seen as mainly about staff performance and a less comfortable or even fear-inducing aspect of any kind of leadership or supervisory role.

Our guests today are keen to discuss and demonstrate how feedback is a much broader part of developing your own leadership style and something that can help build trust, transparency and supportive culture in your team or particular context.

They share examples from their own experience to help practitioners, supervisors and managers at all stages think about developing their own leadership skills and style.

This epsisode is part of our leadership knowledge and practice hub on CC Inform Children which has been produced with Frontline, that charity that is perhaps most known for its fast-track local-authority based training programme for new child protection social workers, but also runs leadership development programmes for managers and those aspiring to be managers in children’s services.

The speakers are: 
Anjuli Obaro, curriculum lead at Frontline
Delin Dixon, independent social worker, experienced foster carer, consultant and trainer
Yinka Olaniran, service manager for a local authority independent reviewing and child protection conference service, and facilitator

Further links:
Radical Candor In 6 Minutes With Kim Scott (YouTube video)
Radical Candor (book)
CC Inform leadership knowledge and practice hub
CC Inform Management knowledge and practice hub
CC Inform Supervision knowledge and practice hub 

This episode focuses on leadership skills and style - in particular the crucial role of feedback which can sometimes be seen as mainly about staff performance and a less comfortable or even fear-inducing aspect of any kind of leadership or supervisory role. Our guests today are keen to discuss and demonstrate how feedback is a much broader part of developing your own leadership style and something that can help build trust, transparency and supportive culture in your team or particular context. They share examples from their own experience to help practitioners, supervisors and managers at all stages think about developing their own leadership skills and style. This epsisode is part of our <a href="https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/leadership-skills-knowledge-practice-hub/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">leadership knowledge and practice hub on CC Inform Children</a> which has been produced with<a href="https://thefrontline.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Frontline</a>, that charity that is perhaps most known for its fast-track local-authority based training programme for new child protection social workers, but also runs leadership development programmes for managers and those aspiring to be managers in children’s services. The speakers are: Anjuli Obaro, curriculum lead at Frontline Delin Dixon, independent social worker, experienced foster carer, consultant and trainer Yinka Olaniran, service manager for a local authority independent reviewing and child protection conference service, and facilitator Further links: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBDkz0TwLM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Radical Candor In 6 Minutes With Kim Scott (YouTube video)</a> <a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kim-scott/radical-candor/9781529038347" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Radical Candor (book)</a> <a href="https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/leadership-skills-knowledge-practice-hub/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC Inform leadership knowledge and practice hub</a> <a href="https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/management-knowledge-and-practice-hub/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC Inform Management knowledge and practice hub</a> <a href="https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/supervision-knowledge-and-practice-hub/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC Inform Supervision knowledge and practice hub </a>

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We’ve been recording Learn on the go on an ad hoc basis since 2017. Over these eight years our podcast audience has grown, and in 2025 we made the decision to start recording Learn on the go in seasons. We launched Season 1 Episode 1 in January 2025.

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Learn on the go is the Community Care Inform podcast where practitioners, trainers, consultants, academics and researchers discuss practice, research, and theories and what they mean for social workers. Listening to episodes is a convenient way to learn and refresh your knowledge when you don’t have much time to read or prefer other ways of getting information and reflecting on your practice.   We’ve been recording Learn on the go on an ad hoc basis since 2017. Over these eight years our podcast audience has grown, and in 2025 we made the decision to start recording Learn on the go in seasons. We launched Season 1 Episode 1 in January 2025.   During each season, episodes are released monthly on the last Friday of the month and all episodes appear on Inform Adults and Inform Children or you can <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/learn-on-the-go/id1268644821" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">subscribe to Learn on the go through Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/17Hqmsd9mouCwMfXUpf4GD" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spotify</a>, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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This episode focuses on leadership skills and style - in particular the crucial role of feedback which can sometimes be seen as mainly about staff performance and a less comfortable or even fear-inducing aspect of any kind of leadership or supervisory...