Collaborative Leadership in Action (COLL)

Escalate the power and importance of meetings – and get better results

Collaborative Leadership in Action:  A Field Guide for Creating Meetings that Make a Difference

By Patrick Sanaghan and Paulette Gabriel

If you’ve ever led meetings that turned out to be a wasteful drain on everyone’s time and energy, then this book is for you. Collaborative Leadership in Action provides leaders, consultants, trainers, HR personnel and others with a step-by-step approach to generating passion, participation and results in meetings.

While collaboration is vital in today’s complex world, it requires a different kind of leadership. In this book, you’ll explore what the authors identify as the five fundamentals of collaborative leadership:

• Being intentional about being effective, engaging and collaborative.
• Building trust.
• Being inclusive so all voices are heard.
• Creating alignment with your organization’s goals.
• Developing your team.

The heart of the book is a collection of collaborative meeting designs to help you work through the myriad of details involved in organizing meetings that achieve your desired outcome. Each collaborative meeting design is graphically illustrated and includes level of difficulty, time required, materials and space needs, number of participants and specific facilitation instructions. Use these designs when you need to:

• Create group connections
• Improve problem-solving
• Assimilate new leaders
• Set ground rules
• Make objective decisions
• Hold post-mortems after a crisis or other event
• Educate participants about key issues
• Anticipate future events that could change the course of the company
• Conduct panel discussions
• Bring different work units and groups together
• And much more

You’ll also learn the factors that come into play when designing interactive and collaborative meetings including how to clarify your purpose, identify stakeholders whose participation is essential, organize meetings so they achieve your goal, manage logistics, from meeting space to set-up, and more.

223 pp