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Collaborative Leadership: What is it and why should you care

Collaborative Leadership: What is it and why should you care. Presented to: National Leadership Conference for Students in Healthcare, November 9, 2002 Betty Bekemeier Judy McCree-Carrington Turning Point Leadership Development National Excellence Collaborative.

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Collaborative Leadership: What is it and why should you care

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  1. Collaborative Leadership:What is it and why should you care Presented to: National Leadership Conference for Students in Healthcare, November 9, 2002 Betty Bekemeier Judy McCree-Carrington Turning Point Leadership Development National Excellence Collaborative

  2. Options for working together • Networking • Coordinating • Cooperating • Collaborating

  3. What is collaboration? Collaboration is based on the belief that “if you bring the appropriate people together in constructive ways with good information, they will create authentic visions and strategies for addressing the shared concerns of the organization or community” Chrislip & Larson, 1994

  4. What are Collaborative Leaders?

  5. Collaborative Leaders • inspire commitment & action around problem solving, by • catalyzing, • convening, • energizing, • facilitating • lead as peer problem-solvers by helping groups • create visions & solve problems • NOT by making decisions & doing work for the group.

  6. Collaborative Leaders • take responsibility for building broad-based involvement among people in the community • sustain hope & participation by • valuing all participation • helping set incremental & obtainable goals • Celebrating accomplishments along the way

  7. Qualities of Collaborative Leadership

  8. The 6 Critical skills and capacities • Developing Trust & Creating Safety • Self-Reflection • Sharing Power • Assessing the Environment • Developing Clarity of Vision • Mentoring & Coaching

  9. Critical skills and capacities • Developing Trust & Creating Safety • Self-Reflection • Sharing Power

  10. Critical skills and capacities • Assessing the Environment • Developing Clarity of Vision • Mentoring & Coaching

  11. A Collaborative Leader must also... • Expect uncertainty! • Take perspective on self & others!

  12. Could you be a Collaborative Leader?

  13. The Heifitz & Sinder Scale Type 1 Problems • An expert knows the solution! Type 2 Problems • The expert diagnoses & the team solves! Type 3 Problems • Collaboration needed for diagnosis AND solutions!

  14. Why is collaborative leadership important NOW? • Today’s world chaotic & complex • Skills needed to address today’s problems don’t exist in any one person • Problems don’t affect just 1 system, so can’t be solved by just 1 system or group

  15. What is the role of Turning Point? • Vision:Collaborative leadership is used to its fullest potential to achieve policy & systems change that maximizes the public's health. • Mission: Increase collaborative leadership capacity across sectors & at all levels

  16. “We have discovered that it is one thing to embrace the concepts of collaborative leadership, but it is an entirely different thing for the agency to be organized to achieve this goal” Rago 1996

  17. How will Turning Point achieve the mission and vision?

  18. Assessment • Inventory the state of training & best practices for collaborative leadership • Describe how, when, why and where collaborative leadership is effectively used • Develop an understanding of collaborative leadership & how it is effective in mobilizing communities.

  19. Development • Describe skills & competencies of collaborative leadership • Articulate the benefits of using collaborative leadership • Document & share stories that model the process of collaborative leadership in Turning Point experiences. • Assist Turning Point partners in implementing collaborative leadership practices and techniques.

  20. Demonstrate Value/Advocacy • Help others understand the value of collaborative leadership • Help others understand how collaborative leadership fits in their setting. • Link collaborative leadership to the 10 essential public health services. • Advocate for the teaching of collaborative leadership - in leadership trainings, professional schools & in communities.

  21. Collaborative leadership... • Isn’t easy • Isn’t always natural • It isn’t even entirely valued yet “we have a situation where collaboration has become this wonderful espoused virtue, but the larger culture does not reward that.” (Hugh O’Doherty)

  22. Why collaborate now? …because the solutions of the future can only come when we “bring the appropriate people together in constructive ways with good information, and they create authentic visions and strategies for addressing their shared concerns” Chrislip and Larson 1994

  23. Leadership Challenge… Are you ready to be a collaborative leader? What will it take for you be ready?

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