Shared Leadership Session: Alliance for Nonprofit Management
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This document discusses shared leadership in nonprofits. It defines shared leadership as distributing authority, responsibility, and accountability more broadly across an organization through structures, communication, and processes that encourage greater staff participation in leadership. Benefits include leveraging more people's talents, aligning values, improving creativity and problem-solving, and creating more investment and accountability among teams. The document provides examples of shared leadership models and discusses elements like decision-making processes, communication strategies, and culture that influence successful implementation.
Shared Leadership Session: Alliance for Nonprofit Management
- 1. Shared Leadership Why it Matters &How to Help Nonprofits Get ThereAlliance for Nonprofit Management Conference 2010
- 2. Session Leadership TeamJudy Freiwirth, Psy. D.Principal,Nonprofit Solutions Associates, Alliance Board MemberDahnesh MedoraThe Nonprofit Association of Oregon Deborah MeehanThe Leadership Learning Community
- 3. Session GoalsExplore shared leadership (with a specific focus on staff leadership)
- 6. Walk our talkSession Design
- 7. Changes in Leadership Thinking
- 8. -- Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
- 9. From Individual Leaders to Shared Leadership
- 10. From Hierarchy to Connectedness
- 11. From Silos to Collaboration…
- 12. What is Shared Leadership?Shared leadership in an organizational context refers the ways in which authority, responsibility, and accountability are more broadly distributed and supported with structures, communication strategies and processes that create opportunities for fuller participation in the leadership of the organization by more of its staff.
- 13. Why Shared Leadership?The sum of the whole is greater than the parts
- 14. Aligning values & structures
- 15. Creativity & problem solving
- 16. Leadership opportunity throughout the organization
- 17. More invested accountable team that is producing more
- 18. Shared burden and more fun!How is this Different?
- 19. Elements of Shared Leadership
- 20. What it Looks Like in Practice
- 21. Example #1
- 23. Key Features
- 25. Example #2National Educational/Advocacy Organization
- 27. Key Features
- 29. Example #3
- 31. Key Features
- 33. Group DiscussionWho has the leadership: What do you think are the additional benefits and challenges?Who makes decisions/Process: What models of decision making do you think will work most effectively in a shared leadership model? Structures: Are there other structures that would work? What would be their benefits and challenges?Communications: What are the primary challenges with communications within a shared leadership structure and what types would be most effective?Culture: In what ways does culture influence the creation and implementation of shared leadership practices?Accountability: What structures and processes would be most effective in setting up mutual accountability within a shared staff leadership model?
- 34. Additional Resources“Leadership Development and Leadership Change.” Building Movement Project (White Paper), 2009. www.buildingmovement.orgZerezghi, Ruth “ Shared Leadership: “Creating New Models of Management.” Grassroots Fundraising Journal, July- August 2010 . Pages 6-9Leadership for a New Era. www.leadershipforanewera.org, see collective leadership resources and resources provided by The Data Center Kellogg Leaders for Community Change: A collective leadership tool,http://www.iel.org/pubs/klccframework.pdf