making shared leadership work: 5 steps to mastering collaboration

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Making Shared Leadership Work: 5 Steps to Mastering Collaboration

Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D.

April 24, 2013

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Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D. Founder and Principle Consultant

Group Alchemy Consulting

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Making Shared

Leadership Work

Five Steps to Mastering Collaboration

Deborah Pruitt, Ph.D.

Successful Teams

Struggling Teams

Struggling Team

Successful Team

-vs-

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• You’re tired of pettiness and tension.

• Your results suffer because people are

disengaged.

• You want to feel more energized and

fulfilled.

This is for you

if …

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Today you will learn

how to... • Set a foundation for high-level collaboration in

any work relationship or group - quickly and

reliably.

• How to prevent typical breakdowns that drag the

group down and break trust.

• How to have more impact in every relationship.

• Critical mindset shift.

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Powerful Collaboration

• Not automatic

• Requires time,

attention, intention

• ALL groups benefit from more conscious

practice of habits of success

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Mindset Shift •How you

start

how you end.

will determine

There is a better

way....

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A journey into culture . . .

Agreements

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• Act in accordance

• Create order and predictability

Agreements

Agreements:

Hold people in relationship

Agreements:

Guide behavior

Explicit Agreements

Explicit Agreements Staff meetings are Wednesdays at

9am.

What time is 9 am?

Explicit Agreement not kept

and Implicit Agreements Being

Made

• I can make my own rules.

• We don’t have to do what we say.

• Meetings start whenever “…” feels like it.

• The agenda doesn’t mean much.

• Deadlines don’t matter.

More Implicit

Agreements

• We joke around a lot here.

More Implicit

Agreements

• Some things we just don’t talk about.

• Don’t disagree with the boss.

• Don’t point out what’s not working or you’ll

lose your cushy arrangement.

More Implicit

Agreements

Damage from hidden

agreements:

• Break down trust, confidence

• Lose initiative

• Frustration

• Withdrawal

• Mediocrity

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Ideal Culture

vs

Real Culture

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It’s in this space that mischief

creeps in:

manipulation…

unilateralism…

and worse.

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What to do?

1. Uncover the hidden

agreements

2. Assess - does it work?

For you?

For the group’s mission?

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4. Make requests.

3. Have the real conversation…

• Explicit

• Specific

• Mutual

5. Make Strong Agreements

1. Uncover the hidden agreements

2. Assess - does it work?

3. Make requests.

4. Have the real conversation…

5. Make Strong Agreements

5 Steps to Mastering

Collaboration

Mindset Shift

Mindset Shift

Let’s ignore

what’s really

going on

Mindset Shift

Prioritize building the culture in your group

with

Attention and intention

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Habits in the group

Culture What’s

possible

Cultural Mindset

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Group

Habits

Culture What’s

possible

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The Alchemy of Agreements

Identify hidden agreements.

Evaluate whether your hidden agreements serve

your goals.

Make requests.

Replace damaging agreements with strong explicit

agreements.

Agreements

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1.Clarity and efficiency.

2.The foundation for accountability that sparks

confidence & initiative.

3.Ease and camaraderie.

4.You can spend less time convincing,

negotiating, or arguing.

With Strong Agreements

you will have:

Agreements

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Creating the gold in any

group or partnershipis not

a mystery...

It’s a Formula.

Account Acknowledge

Master

Renew

Inspire

Group Alchemy Agree

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Create a clear, shared vision that

unifies people toward the same goals.

“Talking from our inspiration turned us

around single handedly.”

Howard Murphy President, Mendocino Food and Nutrition

Inspiration Inspiration

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Accountability Accountability

“I’ve never seen our team pull

together like this before.” CEO, Hospital in Northern California

Accountability becomes

easy when it’s connected to

shared inspiration and is

about learning what works.

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Acknowledgment Acknowledgment

“We raised and donated more money

than ever before in the history of the

organization.”

David Yamada, Former Director,

Yale Public Interest Law Group

Reinforcing and inspiring what

works.

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Renewal Renewal

“Deborah’s program was the catalyst

for a sea change in our

organization.” Leslie Smyth, Ford Street Project

Regularly review, assessment, reaffirm

what works; revise what doesn’t.

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Mastery

I’ve learned things I can use in every

relationship.

I am a better person because of this. Karen Hempstead, WorkSource, Los Angeles

Mastery

Continual learning and innovating.

Create options.

Agreements

Inspiration

Accountability Acknowledgment

Renewal

Mastery

Group Alchemy

The Group Alchemy® Formula

From interesting

information to lasting

transformation...

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Creating new habits

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How you can get more:

Group Alchemy: The Six

Elements of Highly Successful

Collaboration

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How you can get more:

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www.groupalchemy.net/gifts

✓Copy of complimentary guide to“Meeting

Alchemy”

✓Complimentary strategy session

✓Subscription to my ezine, The Group

Alchemist

Are you settling for less?

What would it mean to

have more peace of

mind, less stress?

If you do what you’ve always done,

you’ll get what you’ve always

gotten.

- Mark Twain

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The Group Alchemy® Formula

Accountability Acknowledgment

Agreements

Mastery

Renewal

Inspiration

Group Alchemy

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