
Explore collaborative leadership by leveraging trust, diverse perspectives, and shared vision to do the lifting of leadership together. Learn through stories, assessments, activities, and facilitator resources to build strong teams.
Explore six collaborative leadership behaviors—silo busting, aligning body language, building trust, promoting diversity, sharpening soft skills, and creating psychological safety—and use a 1–5 self and team assessment to drive discussion.
Lead outdoor Ola trips that mix camping, hiking, and cooking to build collaborative leadership through moments of shared misery and empowered team problem solving.
Practice presence and ask simple, well-crafted questions to help others reveal their brilliance, fostering collaboration and showing that people are persuaded by reasons they discover themselves.
Discover how to start a collaborative leadership team by facilitating early dialogue on purpose and structure, examining team configurations, identifying strengths and pitfalls, and establishing ground rules for effective operation.
Practice listening and inviting conversation in collaborative leadership by creating open spaces for sharing, asking good open-ended questions, and giving others space to speak.
Explore collaborative leadership by learning how to brainstorm effectively, listen to diverse voices, and make better decisions, guided by a structured activity and a supporting PDF.
Explore collaborative leadership by embracing multiple perspectives and a shared vision, with next-step resources from books on collaborative leadership, coaching skills for nonprofits, and system leadership, plus online brainstorming tools.
"Good leaders ask for help."
Recognized by ESPN, Dana is the first female director of an esports program in the country. Wise beyond her years, she shares about the challenges and growth of a young being a young leader, and the importance of drawing upon one's own lived experience for leadership insight.
Apply what you've learned in this course to the content of this video and have a discussion about it as a group. If taking this course alone, reflect in a way that is meaningful to you such as journaling or discussing with a mentor.
This video, and the attached facilitator's guide, should give you what you need to lead this course effectively with a group of people. While you can take this course alone, we think taking it with two or more people is far more beneficial.
Collaborative leadership is highly relational and relies on the collective input and synergy of the team. It stands upon the conviction that the best ideas are generated from healthy and inclusive dialogue that utilizes the gifts and talents of team members. This course explores the values associated with collaborative leadership and gives you skills to successfully facilitate a collaborative process, listen, ask questions, and hold space in a manner that draws out learning to make decisions.
In this course, you'll get an assessment, activities, stories and illustrations, and a next steps guide. You also get handouts, a facilitation guide for leading a group through this course, and videos to make the course as easy as possible for your team to walk through. It's everything you need for you or a team to get going and get growing. Let us do the work of providing the content. You do the work of becoming the leaders your team needs you to be.
You may find this course enlightening on your own, but the magic happens when you take it with others. As such, this course is designed for a group to take together. No need to purchase this course for everyone who participates. You are welcome to just purchase it once for the group and do it together. In fact, I encourage it.
I'm a certified and practiced leadership coach with years of experience coaching, mentoring, and building up leaders in various fields. I also have a Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership and have taught leadership to many people in many contexts over the years. I hope that you and your team benefit greatly from this course and I encourage you to check out my other offerings as well.