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News Brief: Social Change,Communication, Leadership, Collective Leadership, Collaboration, Collective Learning, Networks

•      "Social Analytics Meet Community Engagement" 
        Author:  Allison Fine                                                                    
        Date:  July 26,2010
        Source:  A. Fine Blog
        URL:  http://bit.ly/cZ51Dy 

Allison Fine looks at how all the social media activity related to social causes translates into the actual on-the-ground activity necessary for social change.  She explores the question:  “What, if anything, does all of the clicking, blogging, and “friending” add up to in the end?”.  This topic, the one of how to both translate online exchanges into offline actions and measure the results (the connection between online activity and veritable social change), engenders a discussion, which, as Fine describes is in its “infancy.”   read more »

GEO 2010 National Conference: Insights on Collective Leadership

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As grantmakers continue to explore ways of increasing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofits, we need to think differently about leadership and investments in individuals. There is a growing recognition that to achieve large scale change, we need to unleash collective leadership capacity within groups, organizations and communities; leverage networks using collaborative technologies; and support individuals and organizations working across differences to develop shared purpose, vision and coordinated action. To understand what is needed to achieve this scale of collaborative action, the Leadership Learning Community has joined forces with key innovators in the field to explore the topic of "Collective Leadership" as part of Leadership for a New Era – a collaborative research initiative focused on promoting leadership that is more inclusive, networked and collective. Some of these innovators got together to hold the session "Collective Leadership: Nurturing Vibrant Organizations and Catalyzing Community Change" at the 2010 GEO Conference on April 14.  During the session, these innovators presented practical case studies and provided insights on models and tools for effectively supporting and evaluating the impact of collective leadership.  Each presenter hosted a workshop focusing on a core collective leadership area, and then each presenter wrote an article offering a unique perspective on the conversation that happened during each workshop.  Check out the articles! read more »

Shared Leadership Case Study: DataCenter

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In October 2009, at a Leadership Learning Community (LLC) Bay Area Circle, Miho Kim and Celia Davis of the DataCenter shared their learning about the “Shared Leadership” model adopted by the Center in 2006.  The two hour meeting was very well-attended, raising many questions, which as a result of the time constraints went unanswered.  The high level of interest and participation in the topic appears to reflect the degree to which many in the nonprofit sector are beginning to explore different models and ways of working together.  Miho Kim generously agreed to a follow up conversation with me to flesh out some of the questions raised at the convening (this piece is a synthesis of our interview and the Bay Area circle convening). read more »

A Dance tha Creates Equals PDF file [download] [more info]

By Denise Altvater, Bethany Godsoe, LaDon James, Barbara Miller, Sonia Ospina, Tyletha Samuels, Cassandra Shaylor, Lateefah Simon, and Mark Valdez. "A Dance That Creates Equals: Unpacking Leadership Development." New York: 2005.

Authors: Denise Altvater, Bethany Godsoe, LaDon James, Barbara Miller, Sonia Ospina, Tyletha Samuels, Cassandra Shaylor, Lateefah Simon, Mark Valdez

Subjects: collective leadership, Leadership for a New Era

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Co-leadership Framework Microsoft Word file [download] [more info]

Co-Leadership Assessment Framework

Authors: Barry Kibel, LLC Evaluation Learning Circle

Subjects: collective leadership, Leadership for a New Era

02/04/2010 - 12:10 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Natalia Castaneda

The DAC Framework of Leadership Microsoft Word file [download] [more info]

The DAC (Direction, Alignment, Commitment) framework of leadership

Authors: Ross A. Wirth, Ph.D.

Subjects: collective leadership, Leadership for a New Era

02/04/2010 - 12:05 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Natalia Castaneda

Don’t bother putting leadership into people PDF file [download] [more info]

Most leadership training that is being conducted in corporate offsites is ill-advised. I make this bold statement because the intent of most of this training is to put leadership into people such that they can transform themselves and then their organizations upon their return. In this article, I shall address why the latter process is unlikely to succeed and what alternatives exist that can more effectively put leadership directly into the organization, where it belongs.

Authors: Joseph A. Raelin

Subjects: collective leadership, Leadership for a New Era

02/04/2010 - 11:52 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Natalia Castaneda

We the Leaders: In Order to Form a Leaderful Organization PDF file [download] [more info]

This article endeavors to develop an emerging paradigm of leadership for our organizations known as "leaderful practice." Leaderful practice constitutes a direct challenge to the conventional view of leadership as "being out in front." It is submitted that in the 21st Century organization, everyone will need to share the experience of serving as a leader, not sequentially, but concurrently and collectively. In other words, leaders need to co-exist at the same time and all together. In addition, each member of an organization will be encouraged to make a unique contribution to its growth, both independently and interdependently with others. In this sense, organizational members will aspire to become fervently collaborative, which in turn is derived from their compassion toward other human beings. Their welldeveloped sense of self permits them to develop a deep consideration of others. Thus, the article makes the case that the only possible way to lead ourselves out of trouble in management is to become mutual and to share leadership.

Authors: Joseph A. Raelin

Subjects: collective leadership, Leadership for a New Era

02/04/2010 - 11:49 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Natalia Castaneda

Does Action Learning Promote Collaborative Leadership? PDF file [download] [more info]

Given the need to unlock the capacity of everyone in the organization, interest in collaborative leadership is growing. But how is such a practice developed? The author proposes the use of action learning—in its original formulation, namely, through reflection on real-time work experience dealing with unfamiliar problems—as a gateway to collaborative leadership. Action learning is portrayed as growing in acceptance as a management education and learning approach that distills knowledge from a context to be used to provide learning to the practice as well as to the practitioner. The account demonstrates how the operating practices of collaborative leadership are directly affected by action learning and proposes that the two approaches are based on common principles.

Authors: Joe Raelin

Subjects: collective leadership, Leadership for a New Era

02/04/2010 - 11:46 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Natalia Castaneda

Elements of Collective Leadership Microsoft Word file [download] [more info]

Indicators for 8 different elements of collective leadership.

Authors: Evaluation Learning Circle

Subjects: collective leadership, Leadership for a New Era

01/16/2007 - 23:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Natalia Castaneda

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