making shared leadership work: 5 steps to mastering collaboration
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When you have no time for inefficiencies, internal competition, or the drama that easily crops up in groups – don’t leave it to chance. Join Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D. author of Group Alchemy: The Six Essential Elements for Successful Collaboration and learn how to apply the practical structures of collaboration to create a more energizing and productive work environment. What would be the results in your business or organization if everyone felt more energy, fulfillment and connection to your true purpose?TRANSCRIPT
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Making Shared Leadership Work: 5 Steps to Mastering Collaboration
Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D.
April 24, 2013
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Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D. Founder and Principle Consultant
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Making Shared
Leadership Work
Five Steps to Mastering Collaboration
Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D.
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Successful Teams
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Struggling Teams
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Struggling Team
Successful Team
-vs-
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• You’re tired of pettiness and tension.
• Your results suffer because people are
disengaged.
• You want to feel more energized and
fulfilled.
This is for you
if …
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Today you will learn
how to... • Set a foundation for high-level collaboration in
any work relationship or group - quickly and
reliably.
• How to prevent typical breakdowns that drag the
group down and break trust.
• How to have more impact in every relationship.
• Critical mindset shift.
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Powerful Collaboration
• Not automatic
• Requires time,
attention, intention
• ALL groups benefit from more conscious
practice of habits of success
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Mindset Shift •How you
start
how you end.
will determine
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There is a better
way....
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A journey into culture . . .
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Agreements
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• Act in accordance
• Create order and predictability
Agreements
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Agreements:
Hold people in relationship
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Agreements:
Guide behavior
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Explicit Agreements
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Explicit Agreements Staff meetings are Wednesdays at
9am.
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What time is 9 am?
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Explicit Agreement not kept
and Implicit Agreements Being
Made
• I can make my own rules.
• We don’t have to do what we say.
• Meetings start whenever “…” feels like it.
• The agenda doesn’t mean much.
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• Deadlines don’t matter.
More Implicit
Agreements
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• We joke around a lot here.
More Implicit
Agreements
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• Some things we just don’t talk about.
• Don’t disagree with the boss.
• Don’t point out what’s not working or you’ll
lose your cushy arrangement.
More Implicit
Agreements
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Damage from hidden
agreements:
• Break down trust, confidence
• Lose initiative
• Frustration
• Withdrawal
• Mediocrity
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Ideal Culture
vs
Real Culture
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It’s in this space that mischief
creeps in:
manipulation…
unilateralism…
and worse.
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What to do?
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1. Uncover the hidden
agreements
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2. Assess - does it work?
For you?
For the group’s mission?
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4. Make requests.
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3. Have the real conversation…
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• Explicit
• Specific
• Mutual
5. Make Strong Agreements
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1. Uncover the hidden agreements
2. Assess - does it work?
3. Make requests.
4. Have the real conversation…
5. Make Strong Agreements
5 Steps to Mastering
Collaboration
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Mindset Shift
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Mindset Shift
Let’s ignore
what’s really
going on
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Mindset Shift
Prioritize building the culture in your group
with
Attention and intention
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Habits in the group
Culture What’s
possible
Cultural Mindset
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Group
Habits
Culture What’s
possible
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The Alchemy of Agreements
Identify hidden agreements.
Evaluate whether your hidden agreements serve
your goals.
Make requests.
Replace damaging agreements with strong explicit
agreements.
Agreements
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1.Clarity and efficiency.
2.The foundation for accountability that sparks
confidence & initiative.
3.Ease and camaraderie.
4.You can spend less time convincing,
negotiating, or arguing.
With Strong Agreements
you will have:
Agreements
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Creating the gold in any
group or partnershipis not
a mystery...
It’s a Formula.
Account Acknowledge
Master
Renew
Inspire
Group Alchemy Agree
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Create a clear, shared vision that
unifies people toward the same goals.
“Talking from our inspiration turned us
around single handedly.”
Howard Murphy President, Mendocino Food and Nutrition
Inspiration Inspiration
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Accountability Accountability
“I’ve never seen our team pull
together like this before.” CEO, Hospital in Northern California
Accountability becomes
easy when it’s connected to
shared inspiration and is
about learning what works.
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Acknowledgment Acknowledgment
“We raised and donated more money
than ever before in the history of the
organization.”
David Yamada, Former Director,
Yale Public Interest Law Group
Reinforcing and inspiring what
works.
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Renewal Renewal
“Deborah’s program was the catalyst
for a sea change in our
organization.” Leslie Smyth, Ford Street Project
Regularly review, assessment, reaffirm
what works; revise what doesn’t.
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Mastery
I’ve learned things I can use in every
relationship.
I am a better person because of this. Karen Hempstead, WorkSource, Los Angeles
Mastery
Continual learning and innovating.
Create options.
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Agreements
Inspiration
Accountability Acknowledgment
Renewal
Mastery
Group Alchemy
The Group Alchemy® Formula
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From interesting
information to lasting
transformation...
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Creating new habits
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How you can get more:
Group Alchemy: The Six
Elements of Highly Successful
Collaboration
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How you can get more:
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www.groupalchemy.net/gifts
✓Copy of complimentary guide to“Meeting
Alchemy”
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Are you settling for less?
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What would it mean to
have more peace of
mind, less stress?
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If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always
gotten.
- Mark Twain
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The Group Alchemy® Formula
Accountability Acknowledgment
Agreements
Mastery
Renewal
Inspiration
Group Alchemy
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