3. The Relational Leadership Model

2. 3. The Relational Leadership Model

3. Relational Leadership Arelational and ethical process of people together attempting to accomplish positive change.

4. Being Purposeful • The ability to collaborate and to find common ground with others to facilitate positive change. • Purposeful groups have a clear mission and reason for being that resonates with group members.

5. Being Purposeful

6. Being Inclusive Understanding, valuing, and actively engaging diversity in views, approaches, styles, and aspects of individuality. • Examine group practices that might block inclusivity. • Involve people from outside the group.

7. Being Inclusive

8. Being Empowering Empowerment has two dimensions: • Self-empowerment: the sense of self that claims a place in the process and expects to be involved. • Empowering environments: examining conditions in the group that promote the full involvement of participants.

9. Bases of Power (French & Raven) Adapted from Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, F. P. (2006). Joining together: Group theory and group skills (9th ed). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, p. 237.

10. Being Empowering

11. Being Ethical Leadership that is driven by values and standards and leadership that is good—moral—in nature. • Group members operate from a sense of shared standards and values. • Values drive both group goals and the means used to achieve them.

12. Being Ethical

13. Being Process-Oriented • Being intentional and thoughtful about how the group goes about being a group, remaining a group, and accomplishing a group’s purposes. • Examples of “processes” • Collaboration • Reflection • Feedback • Handling conflict • Making decisions • Sharing the work • Confronting each other • Building community • Making meaning of events

14. Being Process-Oriented