The Communities in Schools National Forum
Philadelphia, PA
April 7, 2010
Hank Rubin, Ph.D., President and Founder
Institute for Collaborative Leadership
Jolie Bain Pillsbury, Ph.D., and Victoria Goddard-Truitt, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellows
University of Maryland School of Public Policy’s Results Based Leadership Collaborative
Collaborative Leadership: Complimentary
Approaches
 Collaborative Leadership: What is Collaborative
Leadership? & Who is a Collaborative Leader?
 Purposeful, voluntary relationship
 Cooperation to achieve shared objectives
 Capacity to build and maintain relationships
 Collaborative Leadership for Results
 Focus on common, shared result
 Partners taking aligned action
 Use of collaborative leadership skills and tools
Story of the Little Red Wagon Pin
Educators as Collaborative Leaders: getting grownups to pile into the
wagon and pulling everyone along in aligned support of children's
learning and well-being.
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See explanation on website: www.Collaborative-Leaders.org
Workshop Results
• How can the Collaboration’s Life Cycle be used to improve
community-school partnerships?
• Where are you in the Life Cycle?
• What are your collaborative leadership opportunities and
challenges?
• How can you use results-based leadership tools to explore your
partnership’s opportunities and address its challenges?
• What next steps will you take to strengthen your partnership?
Introductions
Name
Agency or organization
Coalition/collaboration/team that is your focus for workshop
Collaboration’s Life Cycle: Where is Your Team?
Reflection: Opportunities and Challenges
• What are the results you want to achieve from your
collaboration?
• Who is involved in your collaboration’s work at this phase?
What is your role?
• What is working and what is not working in your
collaborative?
• What are the opportunities/challenges you face as a
collaborative leader?
Collaboration’s Life Cycle Clusters and RBL Tools
Cluster I (Phase 1)
•Launch
• Reason to undertake initiative
• Person responsible for work
Proposal Based Decision Making
Cluster II (Phases 2-5)
Human resources/knowledge base
Accountability Pathway
Cluster III (Phases 6-7)
Administrative structures/systems
High Alignment/ High Action
Cluster IV (Phases 8-11)
•Collaborative culture
• Connecting partners to/within collaboration
Circle of Conflict
Cluster V (Phases 12-14)
Accountability/sustainability/renewal
Results, Relationships and Resources
Results-Based Leadership (RBL) Tools
Using results-based leadership tools can help you move
quickly from talk to action.
1.
Identify the need to address issue at hand
2.
Assess where your collaboration is now
3.
Identify appropriate results-based leadership tool
4.
Learn how to apply the tool through review, reflection
5.
Practice applying the tool until it becomes second nature
RBL Tool: Proposal Based Decision Making
• Consensus is finding a proposal everyone can support/no one
opposes.
•
Use proposals to make decisions/seek reactions by using rule of
thumb.

Agree (thumbs up)

Not sure (thumbs sideways)

Disagree (thumbs down)
RBL Tool: Accountability Pathway
Accountability:
The ability to make action commitments and keep those
commitments or to acknowledge you haven’t and do what you
need to do to move to action.
RBL Tool: High Action/High Alignment
Low Alignment
High
Action
Low
Action
High Alignment

High action that contributes
to results

High action that contributes
to results

Does not work to be in
alignment with others

Works to be in alignment with
others

Low action that does not
contribute to results

Low action that does not
contribute to results

Does not work to be in
alignment with others

Works to be in alignment with
others
RBL Tool: Circle of Conflict
RBL Tools-Results, Relationships and
Resources (3 R’s)
The 3R’s help focus meetings and conversations to produce effective
collaboration. Relations + Resources = Results
MEETING PURPOSE- EXPLORE THE TOPIC OF YOUTH SUCCEEDING IN SCHOOL
“Listen For” for Results
Effective Questions for Result
If the meeting were successful, what would we see?
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•
Example “Listen For” for Relationship
Effective Question for Relationship
Who needs to be involved to get the meeting results?
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•
Names, affiliations
Who has relationships or access to people and programs
Example “Listen For” for Resources
Effective Question for Resources
What can those invited do to help?
Ideas for low-cost, no cost programs or neighborhood
activities that support youth’s academic success and/or
positive social connections
Actions taken to implement or connect to programs
•
What resources do people have or have access to—i.e.,
time, knowledge, relationships, experience, passion, data,
etc.
Resources
Institute for Collaborative
Leadership
www.collaborative-leaders.org
Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective
Partnerships for Communities and Schools
Results Based Leadership
Collaborative
www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/rblc
www.rbl-apps.com
Results Based Facilitation: How To Move from Talk To Action
Theory of Aligned Contributions: An Emerging Theory of Change
Primer