Collaborative Leadership Training Focus GroupWorking Together Instead of Working Alone - A Collaboration Model BACKGROUND Many of the issues that organizations deal with today are cross-cutting, and no one unit or organization can address them fully. Budgets are too tight and the only way to address some of our toughest challenges is to leverage resources by collaborating across boundaries. However, Collaborative Leadership is not part of an academic curriculum. Where do managers and leaders learn how to collaborate on such challenges? How to deal with the issues that collaboration poses: turf and trust issues, the need for senior leaders to actively support it, the difficulty of collaborating across different organizational cultures, the large amount of time it takes, the challenges of dealing with people who won't share information, the lack of incentives to collaborate? Collaborative leadership is the art of pulling people together from different units or organizations to accomplish a task that none of them could accomplish -- at all or as well -- individually. By definition, collaborative leaders have no formal authority over their peers. They must use persuasion, technical competence, relationship skills and political smarts to get and keep the coalition together and produce the desired goal VISION To create and support collaborative systems that more efficiently and effectively meet community needs. MISSION Develop capacity building in collaboration where leaders and their teams can learn the process and skills of collaborative leadership and engage in real time collaborative activity with other organizations that create win-win relationships and results. STRATEGIES Pursue funding for developing and delivering a collaborative leader training course. GOALS
CONTACT PERSON: Skip Johnston, President and CEO, Coordinating Council of Broward, skipjohns@theccb.org , (954) 377-1656
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