Emerging Themes in Collective Leadership when things have been working/successful

 

• Roles are clear but boundaries are not limiting.
• Shared vision.
• Timing
• The right tools
• Synergy/Magic
• Roles Clear/Able to do what have talent in.
• Involvement of everyone in planning and decision-making in ways that engage them.
• Give them the tools, the parameters, the deadline & get out of the way.
• There's a need to be met.
• There is a connection to a sense of purpose.
• Problem-solving not hierarchical.
• Self-identification of interests & strengths
• Trust
• Moving from "Mine & Yours" to "Mine, Yours & Ours"  - "I" is never compromised and "we" is always supported.
• Shared Accountability

 

Emerging Questions

• What's the degree of individual leadership required for working well in collective leadership?
• What are the decision points around the relationship and the fluid prioritization of the "I" and the "We"

 

The BIG Framing Questions

> WHY collective leadership?

    - What is accomplished by collective leadership?

    - Is collective leadership a vehichel for building leadership connections across silos, sectors, boundaries?

    - What gives rise to or supports collective leadership?

    - What is the impact of collective leadership?

    - Leadership for what? What does success look like?

    - Individual vs group or team; ego vs group or team; power vs group or team. How can we talk about this reality?

 

> HOW is collective leadership cultivated?

    - What skills are needed for collective leadership and how are they cultivated?

    - What leadership program elements nurture collective leadership?

    - How can leadership be supported in learning to develop shared purpose and mobilize collective actions?

    - How is collective leadership interjected into systems so it is not dependent on individuals?

   - From relationships where our capacity to heal is acknowledged, that supports community reconciliation and community enhancement

  - Which is more important for every member in a group to feel equal valued or for every member in a group to be equally involved, or is it?

  - By giving up your institutionalized power

  - How can we create safe spaces within our organizations and communities to be able to have honest conversations about our challenges, needs and weaknesses?

  - What is the role of interpersonal/social skills for leaders whose dominant experience of communication is mediated by technology?

  - How does interdependency inform collective leadership? How does it lead to expanding the base of stakeholders? How does that impact how we do our work, talk our work and think our work?

  - How do we reframe our cultural value of competition (relationship whose goal is dis-equilibrium) in the context of collective leadership (relationship in which equilibrium or dis-equilibrium

    are not factors?)

 

> WHEN does collective leadership make sense?

  - What contexts are best for collective leadership?

  -  When is collective leadership the best way to achieve desired goals?

  -  What conditions need to be in place for collective leadership?

  - Is collective leadership situational? Is it time or place sensitive/contingent?

 

> WHAT does collective leadership look like?

 - What different ways of making decisions reflect genuine collective leadership?

 - What is the intersection of individual and group in the collective process?

 - What is the collective nature of all leadership?

 - How is collective leadership different from coalitions, alliances?

 - How is collective leadership different from/similar to collaborative leadership?

 

 

 

 

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