The art & science of cultivating collaborative performance
Engaging as a collaborative leader requires both a skill set and mindset. Skill sets include: creating cooperative peer learning environments by facilitating processes to engage people in generative, diverse discussions about challenges and opportunities. Mindsets include: using genuine inquiry as a means of engaging people around a topic; allowing for problem defining before jumping to problem solving; and sharing power.
Power sharing tends to be a difficult topic to speak about— in our workplaces and in society as a whole. We support leaders to have authentic conversations about power—where it resides and how it can be distributed in more equitable ways to people or groups who traditionally wield less power because of their role in a hierarchy, their gender, race, or other social identities. If a leader wants to be more collaborative, they must be willing to discuss these topics and learn about their own privilege, power, and bias otherwise their efforts will be undermined by these unexamined forces.
Our Collaborative Leadership Workshops introduce leaders to the models, methods and skills for connecting diverse people and convening important conversations for momentum where it is needed most.
- Leader as Convener Workshop: Three day live workshop or 19 hours of virtual sessions introducing leaders to the mental models, methods and skills for convening diverse people to have important conversations that create positive outcomes where they are needed most.
- Mindset of a Collaborative Leader Workshop: Eleven hour virtual workshop designed to to give participants a meaningful encounter with their own thinking about what it takes to create and work in collaborative environments. The MCL provides a structured group learning experience that invites deeper exploration into the mindset needed to lead in a time of great complexity and interdependence among co-workers, outside partners and contributors.
- Leadership Roundtables: Facilitation of a horizontal network of peers within an agency who can serve as mentors, teachers, and friends to one another to combat the isolation and stress of demanding leadership roles.