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Collaborative Leadership Skills
Challenges
Share with Partner
• Identify 1 challenging stakeholder you have influenced or tried to influence
• Share lessons learned:What works? What is hard?
Share with Table
• Introduce self
• Stakeholder you influenced/tried to influence
GOALS• Strengthen collaborative leadership
skills
• Better influence and communicate with stakeholders
• Strengthen relationships with peers
• Create personal action plan
LEADERSHIP DEFINED
Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.
James Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge
Adaptive leadership is the practice of mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges and thrive.
Ron Heifetz, co-author of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
DIRECTIONS OF LEADERSHIP
YOU
Others “Above”
Others “Beside”
Others “Below”
Others “Beside”
They have authority/ power to decide, give, do
You decide, direct, give to, tell, mentor
Peers, more equal
Definitions
YOU
1. List some stakeholders
2. Prioritize and circle 2-3
Map Your Leadership
How to Lead Up1. See them as an ally2. Understand: what’s in it for them3. Adapt to style and needs4. Use strategy
Rules for the Road
How to Lead Sideways1. Make and keep realistic commitments2. Respect each other’s work3. Get buy-in
Rules for the Road
How to Lead Down1. Directly communicate expectations2. Be receptive to feedback and/or choices3. Do not be afraid of your own self-disclosure
Rules for the Road
Priority Stakeholders:
Individually (few minutes)1. What isn’t working?2. What am I excited to try?
At Your Table3. What insights do I have?4. What muscles to flex? To strengthen?
Assess and Discuss
Insights
COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP
Catalyze Culture of Cooperation
Use Vision to Navigate
Share Power & Generate
Momentum
Catalyze Culture of Cooperation
1. Listen deeply2. Show gratitude and appreciation 3. Use both/and thinking4. Communicate openly and clearly5. Foster camaraderie and trust
Use Vision to Navigate
6. Create space for others7. Embrace ambiguity; encourage innovation8. Develop enough infrastructure9. Resolve conflicts in values/beliefs
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Share Power and Generate Momentum
10.Hold clear picture of purpose11.Help people understand progress/success12.Courageously adapt
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Match Medium to Message
High degree of complexity and/or feedback needed
Self
One-on-One
Subgroup
Whole
Low degree of complexity and/or feedback needed
Low degree of complexity and/or feedback needed
High degree of complexity and/or feedback needed
Self
One on One
Subgroup
Whole
High degree of complexity and/or feedback needed
Self
One on One
Subgroup
Whole
Low degree of complexity and/or feedback needed
On Scrap Paper:Pick a practice you’re working to apply to one priority stakeholder. Identify the challenge you are facing.
Think Individually (few minutes)
1. Briefly describe challenge and practice2. Others ask clarifying questions only3. Identify: “Who shares this challenge?”4. Coach: Each person provides guidance or
feedback (1 minute)
Repeat
Coach Each Other: 10 Minute Rounds
SO WHAT? NOW WHAT?
For My LeadershipI learned...
I’d like to try...
I plan to take the following steps to apply what I’ve learned …
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