Trust as the real currency
Relational leadership and Collective Impact.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Systems Leadership
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
The work of a systems leader happens in partnerships, and most partnerships stall. This module draws on Chris Huxham and Siv Vangen's research on collaborative advantage and inertia, their four themes of aims, power, trust and membership, and their trust-building loop, alongside Adam Kahane's ideas of power and love. It reads the Poverty Truth Commission as systems leadership and turns the ideas into everyday relational habits. Collective Impact, set out by John Kania and Mark Kramer in 2011, has shaped how funders, councils and charities work together on problems no single body can solve. This module covers its five conditions and the backbone function, weighs Tom Wolff's critique and Cabaj and Weaver's Collective Impact 3.0, and reads the Strive Partnership carefully. It closes with a question every partnership should ask: whose agenda is the common agenda?
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain collaborative advantage and collaborative inertia and identify the four themes of aims, power, trust and membership that make collaboration hard.
- Apply the trust-building loop to sequence joint work, starting small and keeping promises before raising the stakes.
- Use Kahane's power and love and the Poverty Truth Commission's design to plan how to share power before sharing tasks.
- Describe the five conditions of Collective Impact and explain what a credible backbone function does.
- Assess the critiques of Collective Impact and use the five shifts of Collective Impact 3.0 as a diagnostic for your own partnership.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 10Relational Leadership, Power and TrustThe work of a systems leader happens in partnerships, and most partnerships stall. This module draws on Chris Huxham and Siv Vangen's research on collaborative advantage and inertia, their four themes of aims, power, trust and membership, and their trust-building loop, alongside Adam Kahane's ideas of power and love. It reads the Poverty Truth Commission as systems leadership and turns the ideas into everyday relational habits.40 min
- 11Collective Impact, and Its CriticsCollective Impact, set out by John Kania and Mark Kramer in 2011, has shaped how funders, councils and charities work together on problems no single body can solve. This module covers its five conditions and the backbone function, weighs Tom Wolff's critique and Cabaj and Weaver's Collective Impact 3.0, and reads the Strive Partnership carefully. It closes with a question every partnership should ask: whose agenda is the common agenda?38 min
Keep going.
Part of the Systems Leadership topic, also sold whole as Leading the whole system.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Leading in the connections, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Leading across the system, 5 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Leading the whole system, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Beyond our own walls, Stronger together
Other Bitesize in the Systems Leadership topic
- Seeing the wholeSystems thinking and system mapping2 hours£39
- Where a small push goes farSystem archetypes and leverage points1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Leading what no one controlsComplex adaptive systems and systems leaders1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Sensing what wants to emergeAdaptive leadership and Theory U1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Where law and place meetWelsh law, integrated care and devolution1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Learning as the way we leadHuman Learning Systems and system measurement1 hour 15 minutes£39
Also Inside
Communities and systemsStronger togetherImmerse9 hours£249
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