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Ever been part of any kind of joined-up or whole of government venture and had the feeling that it was just too hard, that the effort wasn't reaping returns or making the desired progress? OR have you been able to steer your collaboration to achieve real results that you couldn't have delivered separately? Are you increasingly needing to achieve outcomes across organisational, policy and program boundaries, particularly in public sector settings? It takes conscious effort and leadership to make real progress, and there are professional insights that help drive these efforts to success. Understanding the common factors and pitfalls that those who have gone before you have encountered is a way to sure up your potential for success. You might find our #primer useful. It is grounded in research, practical experience and live observations. We have been refining it over time to help groups and their members build shared awareness of the factors that help and hinder inter-organisation collaborative efforts and to identify and address factors that might be driving their efforts towards "collaborative inertia" where the effort is so challenging that it outweighs the potential value to be gained. You can find it on our website - link below. QUICK TIP: We would recommend sharing something like this in advance of a collaboration gathering or as a starting point for a meeting. Have individual members read and reflect on the diagnostic questions and then LinkedIn and 3rd parties use essential and non-essential cookies to provide, secure, analyze and improve our Services, and to show you relevant ads (including professional and job ads ) on and off LinkedIn. Learn more in our Cookie Policy Select Accept to consent or Reject to decline non-essential cookies for this use. You can update your choices at any time in your settings Accept Reject More Relevant Posts Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Collaboration Primer | C4CL New centreforcollectiveleadership.com.au facilitate a conversation about the diagnoses to review progress and make agreements about changes that would assist progress to be made. In our experience there are many #undiscussables running in these types of fora and so surfacing those is the first step to tuning the appoach. We can provide tips and strategies for facilitating these discussions if you are interested or would just like a bit of advice. In the meantime, here's the link. https://lnkd.in/geR5i5pM Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 6d Our little mail room has been running hot with orders for these. If you haven't already - get in soon for your very own box of #inspo . You can order at our website (link in the comments below) and you will have them within a couple of 5 · 3 Comments Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in days. If you already have yours - we hope you love them and we hope you will post a comment about how you have been using them so far... Here's one way I have been using them: 1. Have your cards in your bag/pocket 2. When you meet someone or you are at a meeting or gathering with people, take out the cards and fan them and ask the person/people to pick a random card (as in magician "pickacard" process) 3. Tell them to read their card and watch the look on their face 4. Then when they go to give it back to you, tell them it is theirs to keep as a little bit of #inspo and watch their face again... If you try it - let me know what happens? #leadershipInspo #leadershipforourtimes #change #strategy #facilitation #collectiveleadership #generosity Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 1w Podcast # 1 🤸 ♂ Kathy Hilyard Facilitating leadership... especially focusing on leadership we need for the time... 1w It was definitely a highlight of my year a couple of weeks ago when I had the privilege to sit down with Martin Hehir at the skilled hands of David Pembroke to discuss a change leadership story that I and my co-founder Mary-Claire McDonald are very proud to have played a small part in. I’m a regular listener of the Work with Purpose podcast with its array of insights and wisdom from those who practice leadership in the world of for purpose, public service. This was my first ever podcast experience and I have to say there was some trepidation when I saw it was out in the public domain this morning. I am guessing I am not alone when I share that my inner critic goes crazy with – well – criticism – at listening to my own voice coming back at me down the airwaves. That said, it was a great experience. The work Martin and his team did to craft and steward their culture of collaboration was focused, challenging and tenacious and I was very keen on the idea of him taking up the opportunity to share their story with a wider audience that could benefit from the wisdom of the experience. If you are curious about #publicsectorleadership #collaboration #culturechange #changeleadership #collectiveleadership you may want to add the #WorkingWithPurpose podcast #113 to your list - link in comments below. Thanks to the incredibly professional team at IPAA ACT and contentgroup for making us feel at home in a daunting environment and thanks to Martin Hehir for sharing the story with honesty and vulnerability and for your trust in me and the team at the time to play a part in this story. I think it is an insightful listen for organisations that are working on their collective and collaboration culture and the leadership focus and effort required in shaping real change. BTW - I think there are some lessons here for consultants and public sector leaders working in partnership to make progress on change and culture: 🎤 Both are practicing leadership but with very different lenses 🎤 Trust in each other is everything and it can be cultivated over time and through courageous experimentation 🎤 The will to try things, be honest, curious and vulnerable are key partnering foundations 🎤 The consultant role to facilitate, learn, adapt and scaffold change (rather than apply process driven regimens) can result in better value for all. #collectiveleadership #storiesofprogress #leadershipweneed Centre for Collective Leadership 1 · 1 Comment Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 1w 7 · 1 Comment Collective leadership is not a new concept (it has been written about in academic circles for at least 60 years, gaining momentum over the past ten). It is an emerging and disruptive response to our changing world. It involves bringing together diverse networks of people to address challenging shared issues. This means focusing leadership efforts to facilitating and enabling collective work by diverse groups and making progress towards shared aims. Collective leadership begets collective culture, but this work is not simple. It requires investment and skill to bring diverse groups together, facilitate shared goals, bridge historical divides, disagree and still make progress, replace polarity and fixed positions with listening and creativity, actively work through conflicts, surface undiscussables and take the time to directly work on trust. There is no one "leader" who can carry the load of a complex social system in transition. Instead, we need collective leadership. Not pointing fingers, or shifting blame or procrastinating until a better opportunity presents, but stewarding progress together. The road ahead is challenging but there are new possibilities to explore. Marching into it together with a sense of pragmatic optimism, imagining what could be, is the collective leadership challenge of our times. Our leadership framework - Leadership UNCAPED is all about these contemporary ways of leading. If you head over to our website you can download the UNCAPED self reflection guide - designed for those stepping up to lead differently. And good news - will be free to download for the next week. We have a range of UNCAPED tools and services for leadership teams. If you would like to chat about how to use these tools in your team, just contact us to arrange a time. #LeadershipUNCAPED #LeadershipForOurTimes #CollectiveLeadership Leadership UNCAPED Framework • 17 pages Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 2w · Edited 7 Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Have you ever found yourself in The Waiting Place? While waiting is sometimes necessary, a lot of the time it's a response to the overwhelm of trying to make progress within swirling complexity and unpredictability. When we wait, we are often avoiding making tough decisions, protecting ourselves from the possibility of a misstep, or shying away from our own personal responsibility to make progress. What would happen if next time you found yourself stalled, for whatever reason, you took action? If you took just the best next step, no matter how small, to make progress? What would happen if we were all one shade braver in our conversations? If we asked the silly question, if we challenged the status quo, if we took a greater share of the responsibility and were mutually accountable to each other? ** The pages pictured are from the brilliant leadership tome and children's book: Oh the Places You'll Go, by Dr Seuss. #CollectiveLeadership #ThePlacesWeWillGo Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 3w This content isn ’ t available here Access this content and more in the LinkedIn app “When we don’t examine the deeper assumptions behind why we gather, we end up skipping too quickly to replicating old, staid, formats of gathering.” Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering. It's time to #reimagine the #conference When choosing a conference are you looking forward to being stimulated, meeting interesting people, hearing stories, making connections, being inspired, being engaged, accessing the brains trust of fellow participants? Only to find that you arrive, sit in a room with limited natural light for a day or two, listening to people on a stage, barely have a chance to meet others at your own table let alone discuss important questions or issues, (or worse, sit in rows of seats in a darkened theatre, drink bad coffee in a scheduled break feeling awkward about approaching strangers, leave feeling vaguely unsatisfied? Telltale signs your conference needs a rethink. Try these on for size: ⏳ the number of people on their phones during the sessions, ⏳ the default format - speaker/panel/questions from audience-repeat, ⏳ referring to participants as “the audience”, ⏳ the absence of a robust discussion, ⏳ the slow but steady decline in numbers in the main hall over time. We can rattle off at least 100 suggestions for reimagining conferences. They need to be: 🗝 more engaging, purposeful, inclusive, productive, interesting, 🗝 better value for money – as a participant, a sponsor/exhibitor, for your industry/profession/sector 🗝 less boring, predictable, monochromatic, passive. What if your next conference were to: 🗝 harness the power, potential, capability of the group on shared challenges 🗝 gather perspectives, make sense of the shared environment, cultivate big conversations about the future and the work ahead 🗝 actively facilitate connections and new networks 🗝 become the catalyst for a year of activities, connections and changes between annual events 🗝 not be MCd by a journalist 🗝 use trained designers and facilitators to create an experience, frame and spark interactive conversations and connections, engage participants 🗝 allocate focused time to pause, reflect, recharge, learn and reconnect with allies, friends and colleagues 🗝 facilitate engaging meaningfully with new people with purpose including with industry suppliers, experts and inspirational thinkers 🗝 abandon the auto-pilot format of speaker, panel, speaker, panel, panel, speaker, awards dinner, sleep, repeat. We think we can reap more utility, value and progress out of these events and in the process breathe new life into the art of gathering as an industry, profession or sector. A little imagination, conscious design, courage to experiment with a new way and to re-cast the purpose of these gatherings is needed. Share your thoughts on your recent conference experiences in the comments or DM us and do help us to reality check (is it just us?) – take our poll based on your last conference experience? Can't wait to share the results with you. Download the app 2 Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 3w This week we're thinking about the great leadership efforts throughout organisations that are hampered every day by systems and structures that were designed in a bygone era for well defined and challenges and fully controllable risks. Have you seen this playing out in places you've worked? Have you seen any of these systems and structures successfully challenged or changed? We'd love to hear your stories. #LeadershipEverywhere #CollectiveLeadership 14 · 4 Comments Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 3w Nice to see a set of our beautiful quote cards made it all the way over to Dr Judy Lundy in Perth! Dr Judy Lundy Helping to build individual and organisational capability for a sustainable and i... 3w Super excited about what arrived in my mailbox today. Looking forward to using this box of thought provoking quotes from the Centre for Collective Leadership to help trigger deep conversations about the #leadership we need for a #sustainable and #inclusive future of work with my students next month. Thanks Mary-Claire McDonald and Kathy Hilyard for producing these beautiful cards. 3 Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 4w Are you a facilitator or coach? Do you lead a team, run workshops or host gatherings? Our boxed sets of quote cards are a great tool for bringing people together, sparking big conversations, and inspiring action. Each card is a tool for reflection, connection, and motivation. There are endless possibilities for their use in a wide range of settings. We include some suggestions in the box, but of course, we also encourage you to find your own unique ways to incorporate them into your leadership and facilitation practices. The collection of 52 carefully selected quotes is beautifully boxed and printed on high quality card. We have recently ordered a batch, so a limited number are now available on our website, but they won't last long! 10 · 2 Comments Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in Share Centre for Collective Leadership 391 followers 1mo We are re-learning this lesson every day in our start-up world where the work is hard but fun, the experiments are many and the path forward not always obvious. The passion and purpose that drives us helps us to learn together and to make adjustments, think “how fascinating!”, and keep on making conscious choices to move onwards together. All of us experience setbacks and challenges as we exercise leadership in these complex times. No matter what context we are working and leading in we are calling up our resilience reserves to make progress. The work of leading together can serve to fortify against giving up, loneliness, social isolation and fear. So it seems, quite apart from #collectiveleadership making sense for navigating complex challenges, it can also be a prevention tool for the increasing burnout and social isolation we see in our organisations. Something to think about? Some things we are practicing: ☀ staying curious and also having the courage to have a perspective, ☀ believing in our purpose whilst also seeking to test our assumptions with critical friends, ☀ drawing on our individual and collective strengths and also taking on new skills and ways of thinking, ☀ listening to the nay sayers and those who disagree, recognising the value of alternate views, and keeping on taking the best next steps, ☀ having wild ideas and bold aspirations and also focusing in on what is possible right now, ☀ wondering if anyone is listening and being brave, going out in the world to make an impact among the noise and distractions. Our resilience in this work of leadership (whatever the context) is tested every day 7 Like Comment To view or add a comment, sign in and each day is a new adventure, a new high or a hard slog – it’s the steps that matter – forward or backward and sometimes sideways, just keep stepping it out collectively, together. #collectiveleadership #resilience #courage #JustKeepLeading #ProgressTogether #BestNextSteps Susan Carland - thankyou for your wisdom, grace, resilience and tenacity. Share © 2024 About Accessibility User Agreement Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Copyright Policy Brand Policy Guest Controls Community Guidelines