Learn the art and practice of Adaptive Leadership for working with Turf, Trust & Collaboration
Does your work involve complex cross sector or community collaborations? Are you looking to learn practical and effective skills that will help you and your teams collaborate better – deal with conflict, challenge old ways of working, respond to diverse views, create shared meaning, and plan for the future – all while working together to make a collective impact? The role of leading and co-ordinating collaborations is vastly different to business as usual. One requires us to respond, the other requires us to change.
This intensive Masterclass, sponsored by the Tamarack Institute, will equip you with the tools, processes and most importantly the leadership practice to make a real and meaningful change, through your own collaborative initiative. When you change how you work with different people and organizations the system can change with you.
"Effective leadership is characterised by actions that have positive impacts beyond ourselves. It involves using our privilege and power to connect with others to create progress for the whole, not just our part. It enables people to understand and solve their own problems, not look to someone (in authority) to fix it for them. Leadership always embodies a higher dream and purpose that things are left better than we found them – more resilient communities, sustainable organisations and people."
-The Australian Leadership Paradox: What it takes to lead in the lucky country.
Aigner. G & Skelton L. Allen & Unwin 2013
Register now for this fundamental one-day Masterclass with Liz Skelton, Director of Collaboration for Impact from Australia and Liz Weaver, Co-CEO, Tamarack Institute.
You will learn how to apply adaptive leadership principles and practices to your collaborative initiative while demonstrating its relevance and application to system, organisational, community and personal challenges.
What Will I Learn?
This single day Masterclass will be filled with content, practical tools and take-aways that participants will be able to use in their collaborative efforts in communities or their workplaces.
- Greater understanding of the theory and practice of applying adaptive leadership
- Tools and practices to help understand when and how to lead adaptively in collaborations
- Awareness and skills to work across and with diverse stakeholders to enrich innovative outcomes rather than becoming barriers to progress
- Understanding and working with authority and power as well as differences in power (real and perceived)
- Orchestrating and working with conflict
- Skills to build a Learning Culture with diverse interests and power
- Knowledge and tools for creating an authorising environment for adaptive leadership
- Sustaining yourself and continuing to grow both personally and professionally
- User-friendly adaptive leadership tools and practices
This Workshop is for:
- Social innovators who want to more fully integrate an adaptive leadership approach to tackling tough issues
- Leaders of NGOs, community organisations, government, philanthropy, businesses, or learning institutions who are involved in cross sector/interest collaborations that are trying to achieve systems change on complex issues
- Collective Impact Backbone leaders
- Collaboration co-ordinators
- Members of collaborative leadership groups
- Policy makers and funders who want to understand adaptive leadership well enough that they can embed them in their own work as well as better assist the social innovators and initiatives whom they support
Resources
Get a jump on your learning with these suggested resources:
-Turf, Trust, Co-Creation and Collective Impact by Liz Weaver, Tamarack Institute
-Lost Conversations: Finding New Ways for Black and White Australians to Lead Together by Liz Skelton et al.
