Collective Leadership & Collaborative Governance
Organizational leadership often centers an individual or small group of executives with consolidated responsibility and power. This puts immense pressure on people in these positions, which can lead to burnout, compromised personal lives, and heavy administrative duties lacking fulfillment. Not only can this framework negatively impact leaders of an organization, it also can impede the leadership qualities among those in other positions, which can lead them to feel discouraged, stifled and ultimately less productive.
Promoting collaborative governance is a values-based alternative that harnesses everyone’s ability to lead, envision and contribute to the organization as a whole. It serves as a practice to promote mutual empowerment, creating a space for discovery, innovation and shared leadership. It emphasizes collaborative decision making, which can relieve burdened executives by utilizing the collective knowledge of all employees and also inspire employees to take more ownership of their work and their role in the organization.
Collective leadership can be practiced at the individual, team and organizational levels.
All Voices can provide workshops and engagements to promote collective leadership at any level.
We take a personalized approach to supporting an organization transition or enhance their collected leadership and have been influenced by a range of perspectives including Sociocracy, Holocracy, Worker Self-Directed Non-profits, and Reinventing Organizations.
Promoting collaborative governance is a values-based alternative that harnesses everyone’s ability to lead, envision and contribute to the organization as a whole. It serves as a practice to promote mutual empowerment, creating a space for discovery, innovation and shared leadership. It emphasizes collaborative decision making, which can relieve burdened executives by utilizing the collective knowledge of all employees and also inspire employees to take more ownership of their work and their role in the organization.
Collective leadership can be practiced at the individual, team and organizational levels.
- The organizational level requires an adoption of a collaborative governance model, which decentralizes decision making and ensures that everyone is valued in their expertise the way the organization is structured.
- The team level requires a thoughtful way of organizing meetings and structuring work so all are included.
- At the individual level, it's about cultivating the mindsets and interpersonal skills to support collaboration in an inclusive way.
All Voices can provide workshops and engagements to promote collective leadership at any level.
We take a personalized approach to supporting an organization transition or enhance their collected leadership and have been influenced by a range of perspectives including Sociocracy, Holocracy, Worker Self-Directed Non-profits, and Reinventing Organizations.