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
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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
Practitioner generated themes
Culture
Accountability
Common aims
Communication
&
language
Commitment &
determination
Working
processes
Democracy
& equality
Trust
Risk
Resources
Compromise
Power
Success
Identity
Learning
Social capital
Leadership
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Source: Vangen &
Huxham 2005: 38
What is collaborative leadership?
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“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)
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“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)
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“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