collaboration explorer webinar dec 2016 ccl labs

2016 Center for Creative Leadership. All rights reserved. CVD: 01292016

Leadership Explorer Webinar SeriesCollaboration Explorer ™December 2016

David Magellan HorthSenior Fellow

2016 Center for Creative Leadership. All rights reserved. CVD: 012920162015 Center for Creative Leadership. All rights reserved. CVD: 10082015

Collaboration Explorer™ is a prototype brought to you by CCL Labs at the Center for Creative Leadership. We invite your feedback and stories of application. Contact Charles J. Palus, [email protected]. or David Magellan Horth, [email protected]

This tool is designed to help people talk about and improve collaboration in their group or organization, and to learn about the principles, practices, and action logics supporting a collaborative leadership culture.

For stories and information visit our support blog at www.leadingeffectively.com/leadership-explorer/category/collaboration/

Collaboration Explorer is based in part on the work of Dr. Edward Marshall with colleagues at the Center for Creative Leadership.

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http://www.leadingeffectively.com/leadership-explorer/category/collaboration/




Collaboration Explorer™: 3 suggestions for use:

I. To Define Effective Collaboration• To help them discover their own definition of effective

collaboration.

II. To Determine Current State/Future State Leadership Culture• To determine what their current and future state of leadership

cultures are in terms of collaborative principles and practices, and then to decide how they will begin the journey of becoming more collaborative and interdependent

III. For Boundary Spanning Leadership Action Steps• The purple “action” cards can be used to select and implement

boundary spanning leadership practices


Which of the following set of descriptors is:

1. Most like us?

2. Least like us?

Show you answers by completing the poll


Using what you might choose from the following set of descriptors to stimulate your own thinking, craft a short paragraph defining collaboration for our organization.

Please type your responses in chat.


Collaborative Leadership Principles

Edward Marshall -The Collaborative Work Ethic

Overall Leadership Style

Collaborative and interdependent; builds ownership and alignment across the organization; engages organization

7 COLLABORATIVE PRINCIPLES

Trust & Psychological Safety

Trusted by the workforce; credible; builds a safe work builds a safe work environment; transparency; can speak truth to power without retribution

Integrity Encourages integrity by honoring org values, principles, work practices, and processes

Ownership Builds ownership of the workplace, vision, mission, and values; ownership strategies

Alignment Ensures alignment from top of the organization to the front line on values, vision, mission, strategy

Full Responsibility Promotes collective responsibility for success of the organization

Self- Accountability Encourages an environment of self-accountability, trust, and results; measurement; results relationship focus

Mutual Respect Fosters the pride and self-respect of members of the organization


Leadership is a collective activity

Leadership emerges out of individual expertise and heroic action

People in authorityare responsible for leadership

The Evolution of Leadership Cultures

Palus, C.J. McGuire, J.B., & Ernst, C. (2012). Developing interdependent leadership. In The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being. Snook, S., Nohria, N. & Khurana, R. (Eds.). Sage Publications with the Harvard Business School. Chapter 28, 467-492.


From the options for action to achieve a more collaborative organization, please select your top three in the poll.


I. Build RelationshipII. IntegrityIII. Psychological SafetyIV. Full ResponsibilityV. AlignmentVI. Mutual RespectVII. OwnershipVIII. ChangeIX. ListeningX. Risk-TakingXI. Conflict ResolutionXII. Nurturing/Caring/AcknowledgementXIII. FeedbackXIV. CommunicationsXV. ConfidentialityXVI. Decision-Making & DisagreementsXVII.BufferingXVIII.ReflectingXIX. ConnectingXX. MobilizingXXI. WeavingXXII.Transforming

Dr. Edward Marshallwww.marshallgroup.com


Action Inquiry Using Collaboration Explorer


Distribution # PM017K

Collaboration Explorer Card Deck Kit: Five color-coded decks are packaged as a set to facilitate groups of up to 50 people in a session.

$80.45 internal cost per kit (5 decks)$450.00 retail cost per kit (5 decks)

An article with theory and background, and an experiential design and instructions is here (www.leadingeffectively.com/leadership-explorer/category/collaboration/ )

http://www.leadingeffectively.com/leadership-explorer/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Collaboration-Explorer-Background-and-Instructions-CCL-Labs.pdf



Collaboration Explorer™ is a prototype brought to you by CCL Labs at the Center for Creative Leadership. We invite your feedback and stories of application. Contact Charles J. Palus, [email protected]. or David Magellan Horth, [email protected]

This tool is designed to help people talk about and improve collaboration in their group or organization, and to learn about the principles, practices, and action logics supporting a collaborative leadership culture.

For stories and information visit our support blog at www.leadingeffectively.com/leadership-explorer/category/collaboration/

Collaboration Explorer is based in part on the work of Dr. Edward Marshall with colleagues at the Center for Creative Leadership.





collaboration explorer webinar dec 2016 ccl labs

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