Understanding collaborative leadership

Overview of the day

12.30 Introduction and overview

12.45 Understanding collaboration and collaborative leadership

13.30 Establishing the characteristics of collaborative leadership

14.30 Understanding the characteristics of collaborative leadership

15.00 Tea/coffee

15.15 Moving to action

16.00 Next steps

16.30 Close

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Housekeeping and ground rules

• Time keeping

• Mobile phones

• Confidentiality

• Fire and safety points

• Valuing contributions

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Workshop aim: To develop an understanding of collaborative planning and leadership necessary for effective implementation

• To deepen your understanding of the characteristics of collaborative leadership

• To reflect on your collaborative leadership practice

• To explore a challenge in your partnership and plan an action to address it

• To share experiences with other partnership members

• Plan actions as needed

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Understanding collaboration and collaborative leadership

Session aims:

• To develop your understanding of:

• why collaborate?

• what are the challenges of collaboration?

• what is collaborative leadership?

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Understanding collaboration and collaborative leadership

Task

• Discuss the questions and flipchart your responses• Why collaborate?• What are the challenges of collaboration? • What is collaborative leadership? • (20 mins)

Present your responses to the whole group.

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Common bases of collaborative advantage

• Access to resources

• Shared risk

• Efficiency

• Co-ordination and seamlessness

• Learning

• The moral imperative

(Source: Huxham and Vangen 2005)

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Themes in collaborative practice

Common aims

Communication &

language

CultureAccountability

Working processes

Resources

Democracy & equality

RiskTrust

Commitment &determination

PowerCompromise

Identity

Social capital

Leadership

Learning

Success

Membership st

ructures

Practitioner generated themes

Source: Vangen & Huxham 2005: 38

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What is collaborative leadership?

• “Collaborative leadership embraces a process in which individual leaders from different organisations come together for a shared purpose and work collaboratively to deliver the very best learning opportunities and outcomes for young people.”

(CEL/NCSL Steering Group: 2007)

• “Collaborative leadership is leadership shown by a group that is acting collaboratively to solve agreed upon issues. It uses supportive and inclusive methods to ensure that all people affected by a decision are part of the change process. It requires a new notion of power…the more power we share, the more power we have to use.”

(From NCSL VLE)

• “Building the capacity of the whole system, making it possible for others to invest their leadership, creating the space for the discovery of new solutions, being willing to let go of tenaciously held short term goals in the interests of the whole- all these will be important in developing good leadership systems. “

(Goss: 2007)

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Establishing the characteristics of collaborative leadership

Session aims

• To establish priorities for collaborative leadership

• To use the characteristics of collaborative leadership to identify the causes of a challenge in your partnership

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Establishing priorities for collaborative leadership

Task

• In groups, use flip chart paper to draw the learner journey and identify all stages from marketing to completion and award. Identify on the journey where activity is well developed and potential areas of difficulty. Identify your priorities for collaborative leadership. (20 mins)

• Explain the priorities identified by your group.

• Find out about the priorities identified by other groups.(10mins)

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Identifying the causes of your partnership challenge

Task

• Individually, refer back to the learner journey and identify a challenge in your partnership (10 mins)

• In pairs, identify which of the characteristics are causing the challenge in your partnership (10 mins)

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Understanding the characteristics of collaborative leadership

Session aims

• To explore key characteristics of collaborative leadership: purpose and vision; culture; trust; power

• To share learning to deepen understanding of your partnership challenge

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Exploring the key characteristics of collaborative leadership

Task

In pairs or threes discuss the leadership behaviour and activities needed to:

• share purpose and vision

• develop collaborative culture

• build trust

• manage power (15 mins)

Share your learning with the whole group to deepen your understanding

of your partnership challenge. (10 mins)

Individually, clarify the underlying characteristics of your partnership challenge and note your ideas on how to tackle it. (10 mins)

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Moving to action

Session aims

• To reflect on collaborative leadership practice and identify personal learning

• To plan action to strengthen collaborative leadership

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Next steps

Session 5 aims

• To identify next steps

• To review the day

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Thank you