What is collaborative leadership?
Collaborative leadership means leading and steering as partners – without established routines and structures, and without disciplinary authority. It concerns people who run projects, steer changing cross-functional teams in matrix and network structures and form the interfaces to other internal networks, functions and divisions as well as to external customers. Collaborative leadership supports the achievement of shared goals across functional and divisional boundaries. It succeeds when those involved recognise a concrete benefit in taking part, are appropriately included, and when differing opinions and interests are integrated effectively towards the shared goal.
Challenges and trends
Matrix and project organisations, networks and cross-functional teams serve to bundle resources, create innovations, simplify and accelerate performance and decision-making processes in an agile, turbulent environment.
Employees and managers assume new roles: they integrate different perspectives, roles and people.
In order to fulfill this role, they need to understand which organizational, mental and social barriers can occur during collaboration between different units/divisions.
To get the collaboration up and running, employees and managers need to be clear about the contact points and tools that bring collaboration benefits into play and prevent a paralysis of collaboration projects.
What will be covered during the seminar?
- Understanding the dynamics of collaboration with independent partners
- Collaborative leadership through the development of collaboration strategies, common solutions, collaborative organisational structures and a collaborative culture
- Development of collaborative roles and work relationships
- Development of courses of actions as a cross-functional team leader or team member in „tricky“ interpersonal situations and role dilemmas
- Effective collaboration management when interacting with other divisions on the same level and in the context of a vertical hierarchy.
The topics are based on case studies, your own examples, inputs and practical exercises.
What will you learn?
- You will understand which collaboration dynamics can be disruptive and learn how to influence them.
- You will be aware of the role requirements of the collaboration manager and the members of internal collaborations.
- You will be able to bring together the relevant stakeholders in a collaboration room, establish synergies, achieve collaboration benefits and meet collaboration targets.
Location: Inhouse in your organisation or as an open seminar
Duration: 2 days, please enquire
Costs of a two-day open-seminar:
EUR 860 plus MwSt (19% German VAT). Seminar lump sum which includes participation, training materials and catering.
Costs inhouse seminar: please enquire