Principles of Success - Professional Development

Professional Development

Our unique approach to professional development will have several benefits to the community because, as service users, they will interact with Professionals who:

Take individual responsibility for adopting anti-discriminatory practices in the delivery of their professional duties, through the lens of race and intersectionality
Recognise their individual and organisational accountability for ensuring the effectiveness of anti-discriminatory practices
Exercise authentic leadership based on leveraging their personal values and meeting their ethical and legal obligations under both professional codes of practice and equality legislation.

Our industry and sector-neutral work stream is applicable to professionals working at all levels.

We have provided professional development consultancy to the following organisations:

Zest (Netherthorpe & Upperthorpe Community Alliance)

Working with their Leadership, Leisure, Health and Wellbeing, Children, Young People and Families and Youth Teams and Trustees through a series of person-centred, interactive, informative, and outcome oriented sessions. These sessions enabled participants to consider:
- Consider their own beliefs as the foundation upon which they make choices about how they develop their practice
- Consider their own understanding of equality
- Explore equity in practice with the focus on what their organisation does in relation to EDI and how do they know that it is having an impact
- Develop action plans of their own and communities of practice to build confidence and support aligned to contributing to the organisations’ values and strategic aims

London Met Students Union

Working with both Full-time and Part-time Student Union Officers and Staff to explore their understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and how they enact anti-discriminatory practices within their roles and to critically evaluate their mission statement and values through an intersectional lens on race.

Department of Law and Criminology

at Sheffield Hallam University

Level 5 Criminology students undertaking placements who are encouraged to consider their understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and how they enact anti-discriminatory practices within their role as practitioners and how their placement organisations do this.
These placement organisations include the following:

Department of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences

at Sheffield Hallam University

Exploration of Anti-Discriminatory Practice with Mental Health Social Workers

Business Enterprise, Skills and Employability

at Sheffield Hallam University

Consultation activities undertaken across this Professional Services Directorate with Senior Management, Functional Team Leaders and Staff at all levels to evaluate and implement progressive action towards Race Equity in respect of four key themes:

Sense of belonging
Voice Value and Cultural Wealth
Globalised Curriculum and
Employability Links to Industry and Community.

Department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University

As part of their investment into race equity professional development, the department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University scheduled their academic staff to undertake the Progressive Relational Pedagogy staff development delivered by Principles of Success. This entailed PoS orchestrating a Module Leader led review of teaching and learning through our four progressive lenses namely:

Sense of Belonging
Voice, Value and Cultural Wealth
Globalised Curriculum and
Employability Links to Industry and Community.

The outcomes of the development produced the following:

Action orientated developments within subject groups that support the sense of belonging for all students
Exploration of inclusive employability integration into curriculum
Leveraging the diversity of staff to enhance the relatability to students
Exploring new and effecting ways to en hance the student voice that represents all students
Sharing of good practice across subject groups
Input to enhancing the race equity of Course Improvement Plans

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