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Key points
• Background and development of Liberating Leadership
• Brief introduction to the model• Progress to date and future developments
Leadership & Governance NSS workstream
Our vision is that leadership and governance are at the heart of organisational effectiveness, and that the success and sustainability of third sector organisations depends on how they are led and governed. Our mission is to build the capacity of support providers to develop, promote, and champion excellence in leadership and governance practices in the third sector.
NCVO, ACEVO and CSC
Leadership & Governance Aim
2. Leadership Development: Support providers will be better equipped with new models and resources to assist third sector organisations to overcome barriers in accessing leadership development
Barriers to Leadership Development for community groups
• Lack of recognition of leadership – cultural, language, ideological and personal
• Context• Time• Cost
Key Influences
• Focus on concept of collective leadership rather than individual leaders
• Community development values – a bottom up approach
• Paulo Friere – recognition of existing leadership skills and abilities and need to start where people are already at
• Saul Alinsky – focus on leadership to achieve social change
• Contributions from Coalition members inc ECA
Issues during development
• Challenge existing perceptions of leadership• Need to be able to describe how collective leadership
in community sector actually works – focus is on trustees/management committees
• Articulate why leadership is important for the community sector
• Develop a practical programme for support provider organisations to support development of the above leadership
• A new model for the community sector
• Toolkit for using with community groups Training programme for development workers
Understanding Leadership
To liberate leadership, first you have to understand it
• Explore views and experience of leadership• Challenge jaded assumptions • Explore the meaning of leadership
The new model – four Essential Elements
Applying Principles - leadership in the community sector means;
Empowerment:• being participative• being accountable• enabling others• building a vision
Taking action for social change:
• tackling exclusion• building bridges• taking a stand• acting with enterprise
Applying Principles -
• Exploring values as the basis for motivations and actions
• Understanding the principles that underpin leadership• Using the principles as guidance on how to do
leadership• Adopting the principles as a framework for leadership
Liberating Leadership toolkit
• To accompany the training programme• An introduction to the new model and how to use with
groups• Includes 29 participatory tools to use with groups or
an open workshop• Further resources and reading• Website with discussion forums and additional
downloads
Liberating Leadership training programme
• For development workers of support provider organisations• 3 day programme (2 day residential plus 1 day)• Introduction to Liberating Leadership model and toolkit • Try out using some of the tools that have been developed• Feedback session on using the tools with groups where they
can learn from each other’s experience• Equip them with a model and resources to organise a short
workshop about leadership or work 1:1 with a group
Progress to date
• SKiLD (NAVCA) delivering the training programmes
• 2 successful programmes so far and another next week
• Limited impact on groups as DW still working out how to use tools
What Next?
• Launching Liberating Leadership – 20th Nov• National training programmes planned for Nov, Jan &
Feb• Starting to plan regional training programmes for
2010• Partnering with Coalition members to deliver training
programmes to particular sub-sector support providers where appropriate
• Interested in ideas about how to develop Liberating Leadership for the future
Community Sector Coalition
A voice for the community sector.
CSC is a coalition of national umbrella organisations whose work focuses on the community sector who want to champion the unique contribution that the community sector brings to civil society.
www.communitysectorcoalition.org.uk
CSC Aims
• To campaign for policy change that will benefit the community sector
• To deliver a programme of research and learning about the community sector
• To enable members to share information and identify priorities for collective action
CSC Members
• ACRE• ADEPT• bassac• BTEG• BTCV• CLES• CCWA• CDX• CDF
• Advice UK• Community
Matters• NovasScarman• Urban Forum• Community
Foundation Networks
• DTA• ECA• FbRN• FCDL• FCFCG• Mind• NAVCA• NCVYS• TPAS• VAN
Key Areas of Work
• Representation (Third Sector Partnership Board & NI4 delivery group and Ministerial Task Force on Climate Change, Third Sector Research Centre Advisory Board)
• Responding to consultations• Compact Refresh• Celebrating EAC • Leadership and Governance NSS
ECA and the Coalition
Mutually supportive relationship – Coalition benefit from expertise in adult learning and ECA from support of broader Coalition• nominate Coalition representative on DIUS National Advisory Forum on informal adult learning • leading EAC deliverer, innovator, collaborator• Global reach – Ministers and EU• Cunning plans – letters of influence• Joint bids
Future developments
• Developing a Manifesto document • Writing Strategic Plan for 2010-13• recruiting for a new Chair• reviewing our hosting/constitution• encouraging sector collaboration to address climate change issues