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Expanding Leadership Beyond Your WallsCollaborating for Collective Innovation
Laurie PreeceMelissa JaggersFord NGL ConferenceOctober
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Laurie Preece
• Community Coach, Alignment USA• Former Executive Director, Alignment Rockford
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Melissa Jaggers
• Associate Executive Director, Alignment Nashville• Coaching/Technical
Assistance, Alignment USA
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Alignment USA Network
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Learning Objectives
1. What are systems? 2. What is systemic/transformational change?3. What are the key elements of a
collaborative leadership mindset? 4. Why share power, decision-making and
recognition?5. What are the steps to an aligned agenda?6. Why open and frequent communication?7. How do you safeguard the collaborative process?
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What is a System?
• sys·tem /’sist m/ noun: a group of related parts that move or work together
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Transportation System
• sys·tem /’sist m/ noun: a group of related parts that move or work together
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Community Educational System
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Score = Community/System
“Each institution is autonomous and has to do its own work the way each instrument in an orchestra plays only its own part. But there is also the score, the community. And only if each individual instrument contributes to the score is there music. Otherwise there is only noise. And this…is about the score.” Peter F. Drucker, 1999
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What is Systemic Change?
INCREMENTAL Focus: problem-solving Evolutionary Existing culture Question little Adjust status quo Few stakeholders Leader-directed Current structure Narrow focusPower consolidation
SYSTEMIC Focus: vision & strategy Revolutionary Create culture Question everything Disrupt status quo All stakeholders Diverse perspectives Change environment Broad focus Power distribution
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When Expertise is Not Enough
“The capability of individuals is not proving to be our primary difficulty…It is not clear how we could produce substantially more expertise than we already have. Yet our failures remain frequent. They persist despite remarkable individual ability.’’
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
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Optimizing Parts
“Anyone who understands systems will know immediately that optimizing parts is not a good route to system excellence.”
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
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True Complexity
“Under conditions of true complexity-where the knowledge required exceeds that of any individual and unpredictability reigns – efforts to dictate every step from the center will fail. People need room to act and adapt. Yet they cannot succeed as isolated individuals, either – that is anarchy. Instead, they require a seemingly contradictory mix of freedom and expectation – expectation to coordinate, for example and also to measure progress toward common goals.”
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
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Collective Impact
1. Common agenda2. Shared measurements and systems 3. Mutually reinforcing activities4. Trust and continuous communication5. Backbone or intermediary
organizations
6. Community-wide tactics7. Fidelity of implementation
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011: “Collective Impact” by John Kania and Mark Kramer
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Ford NGL Strands
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Collaboration
• co·lab·or·ate /k ‘la b rat / verb: to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something
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Why is Co-labor-ating So Hard?
CHALLENGES
1) Work across boundaries
2) Build trust fast
3) Share risk/benefit
4) Make it work with all stakeholders
5) Link resources into networks
REALITY
1) No authority
2) Inertia, suspicion & bureaucracies
3) Self-serving nature
4) Collaboration viewed as a last resort
5) Legacy attitudes about resources
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Collaborative Leader Mindset
• Resources as shared instruments of action• Authentic leadership without passive
aggressiveness• Transparent decision-making• Codified relationship between
decision-making rights, accountability and rewardsRon Ricci and Carl Wiese, Copyright ©2012 Cisco Systems Inc.
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Collaborative Leadership Roles1. Assess the environment for collaboration2. Create clarity of model and agendas3. Built trust, transparency and
predictability4. Share power and influence5. Develop people and organizations6. Encourage self-reflection7. Build and share common knowledge8. Build social leadership identity Dr. Jill Jameson, Center for Excellence in Leadership
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Collaborative Leadership Roles1. Assess the environment for
Alignment
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Collaborative Leadership Roles2. Create clarity of model
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Alignment IS…
…a system designed to support a public school’s strategic plan for student success by aligning community resources
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Alignment IS NOT…
…a program…a parent organization…a school governance model
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Alignment Team Process
TacticalPlanning
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Collaborative Leadership Roles3. Built trust, transparency and
predictability
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Culture of Communication
• Embedded in Process (mechanical)• Open/Transparent/Pithy (artful)
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Culture of Communication
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Collaborative Leadership Roles4. Share power and influence
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Community Engagement
Struggle
Awareness
Back & Forth
PlanTactic
Pilot Tactics
Success or Failure
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Collaborative Leadership Roles5. Develop people and organizations
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Collaborative Leadership Roles6. Encourage self-reflection
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Collaborative Leadership Roles7. Build and share common knowledge
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Collaborative Leadership Roles8. Build social leadership identity
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Steps to an Aligned Agenda
Convene Stakeholders in
‘’A-Teams’’
Analyze Relevant
Data
Select Strategy & Craft
Common Vision
Define Desired Outcomes &
Assessment Plan
Design Tactics & ITP
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Steps to Resource Alignment
Community Organizations
Respond to ITP™
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Backbones Safeguard Process
• Process Experts• Adaptive Leaders 1
o Focus attention to create urgency (storytelling)
oApply pressure without overwhelmingo Frame issues (opportunities/difficulties)oMediate conflict
• Move collaborators from advocacy to collective impact 2
1 Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011: “Collective Impact” by John Kania and Mark Kramer2 Alignment Nashville
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From Advocacy…
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From Advocacy…
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…to Collective Impact
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Risks Without A Backbone
• Loss of stakeholder diversity and balance• Loss of strategic focus• Collaborators may burn out• Collaborating organizations may pull out• Loss of process expertise• Administrative tasks may be neglected• Facilitation skills may not be specialized• Communication may be neglected• Data/Assessment may be neglected
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Learning Objectives
1. What are systems? 2. What is systemic/transformational change?3. What are the key elements of a
collaborative leadership mindset? 4. Why share power, decision-making and
recognition?5. What are the steps to an aligned agenda?6. Why open and frequent communication?7. How do you safeguard the collaborative process?
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Reference List
1. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011: “Collective Impact” by John Kania and Mark Kramer
2. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Digital Edition: ‘’Collective Insights on Collective Impacts”
3. Center for Excellence in Leadership, “Investigating Collaborative Leadership for Communities of Practice in Learning and Skills”, 2006, Dr. Jill Jameson
4. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, 2009, Dr. Atul Gawande
5. The Collaboration Imperative, 2011, Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese
6. Drucker Institute7. Churchman, C. W. (1967). “Wicked problems” Management Science, 14(4), B-141 and B-142
Thank you!Laurie [email protected]
Melissa [email protected]
©Alignment USA – Sydney Rogers &
Laurie Preece