Collective Leadership Slides Leadership Alchemy
Published on Mar 18, 2016
This presentation is an overview of Collective Leadership. More resources and information available at my website www.cassandraoneill.com.
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Collective Leadership: A Pathway to Sustainability
This is for YOU IF:
You are excited about bringing in more voices, sharing responsibility, maximizing potential and having everyone working toward a shared goal with enthusiasm.
You are tired of talking/hearing about the "lack of leadership" and want to be part of the solution.
You are tired of feeling like you are doing all the work, and are ready to inspire others to set up their leadership so the whole group benefits, and you get more joy back at work.
You are tired of talking/hearing about the "lack of leadership" and want to be part of the solution.
You are tired of feeling like you are doing all the work, and are ready to inspire others to set up their leadership so the whole group benefits, and you get more joy back at work.
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Group Learning Goals:
- Learn about Collective Leadership
- Skills, values, and behaviors required for Collective Leadership
- Ways to use Collective Leadership
- Reflect on what you've learned and how you can apply it to your work
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Collective Leadership: What it isn't
What are some old ideas about leadership?
command and control
hierarchy
higher-ups making decisions
top down
small number of "leaders" - everyone else is defined as a follower
old views about people - that they need to be told what to do
organizations are machines
hierarchy
higher-ups making decisions
top down
small number of "leaders" - everyone else is defined as a follower
old views about people - that they need to be told what to do
organizations are machines
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Collective Leadership: What it is
What are some new ideas about leadership?
sometimes called shared or distributed leadership
shared goals/agendas, decision making, collective intelligence,
shared goals/agendas, decision making, collective intelligence,
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BENEFITS
more productivity from teams
increase impact of organization
Sustainable leadership - not dependent on one person
a goal so large that it can only be achieved by multiple organizations working together
increase impact of organization
Sustainable leadership - not dependent on one person
a goal so large that it can only be achieved by multiple organizations working together
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Collective Leadership: BOTH/AND
Both individual and collective leadership
It is a both/and - not an either or
we need both individual leadership and collective leadership
can have some traditional leadership and some collective within teams and organizations
can move a group from traditional to collective
can start a new group with some or all of the elements
shared goal, shared decision making, rotating roles,
we need both individual leadership and collective leadership
can have some traditional leadership and some collective within teams and organizations
can move a group from traditional to collective
can start a new group with some or all of the elements
shared goal, shared decision making, rotating roles,
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It is a both/and - not an either or
we need both individual leadership and collective leadership
we need both individual leadership and collective leadership
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Collective Leadership:
- Teams and Programs
- Whole Organizations
- Networks and Coalitions
- Collective Impact Initiatives
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The 21st Century Leadership Mindset
1. A different definition of leadership
2. A different view of the leader's role
3. A different way of being
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What connections are you making right now between Collective Leadership and your work?
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Evolution of Leadership:
- Bureaucratic -- Leader as Commander
- Paternalistic - Leader as Parent/Hero
- Servant - Leader as Empowerer
- Collective - Leaders as Stewards of Authentic Purpose
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Education should not involve one person acting on another, but rather people working with each other. Too much education, Paulo Freire argues, involves ‘banking’ – the educator making ‘deposits’ in the educated.
Paulo Freire
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Evolution of Leadership:
- Guiding question for Collective Leadership:
- How can everyone most powerfully pursue a purpose that transcends us all?
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“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, ‘We have done this ourselves’” -Lao Tzu
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Ready Set Go
- Core Competencies
- Elements of Collaboration
- Practices of Collective Leadership
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Evolutionary Leadership is a framework by the Center for Evolutionary Leadership
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7 Core Competencies oEvolutionary Leadership:
- Personal Evolution
- Emotions and Generative Language
- Systems Thinking
- Intentional Design
- Systemic Sustainability
- Adaptive Challenges and Collaboration
- Visions of Growth
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3. Systems Thinking- Understanding
and influencing the systems that shape our world
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4. Intentional Design - Consciously designing
our institutions/culture for justice, flourishing, and sustainability
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5. Systemic Sustainability - Take care of humanity's
basic needs and relationship with the biosphere
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6. Adaptive Challenges and Collaboration
collective intelligence, innovation, creativity and networks of collaboration
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What connections are you making between Collective Leadership and your work?
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6 Elements of Collaboration
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Reflection
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Simple practices:
- Shared/common goals
- Shared decision making
- Rotating roles/responsibilities
- Build on strengths of group members
- Identify and align individual goals with collective goals
- Shared learning
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Resources:
- Downloads at
- www.cassandraoneill.com
- Packet on Collective Leadership
- Interview Guide on Collective Leadership
- Group Alchemy by Deborah Pruitt
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Contact Me:
Cassandra O'Neill
Leadership Alchemy
cassandraoneill.com
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