This course, Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations, will help you to reflect on and develop collaborative leadership practices that will make a difference. The course is aimed at people who work within voluntary organisations as paid staff or as volunteers or for people who work regularly with voluntary organisations, such as public sector staff or politicians.The course will take approximately 24 hours to complete. It is divided into 8 weeks, each of which follows a standard pattern to make it easier for you to plan your time. There is a quiz at the end of each week to check what you have learned. The Introduction and guidance describes each of the weeks, provides information about the learning journal and discussion forums and introduces the course authors. It also includes information about permissions and copyright and it is important that you read this before starting the course.The course is produced by The Open University's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL). The CVSL was established thanks to the generous support of Mr Anthony Nutt BA.Please take our survey about thiscourse to give us feedback, inform future work, and have the (optional)opportunity to get more involved if you are interested. You do not needto have finished studying this course in order to take the survey.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction and guidance
- 1 The course: an overview
- 2 Take control of your own development: join in with our development community
- 3 Your learning journal and discussion space
- 4 Who we are
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: Thinking about collaborative leadership
- Introduction
- 1 Why collaborate?
- 2 Collaborative leadership
- 3 Sector challenges and the course’s responses to them
- 4 Reasons to collaborate
- 5 Week 1 quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 1
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Identity and participative practice in collaborative leadership
- Introduction
- 1 Identity and participation
- 2 Leadership and identity
- 3 Defining identity
- 4 Identity work
- 5 Voluntary sector identities
- 6 Participative leadership practice and identity
- 6.1 Democratic practice as work on the self
- 6.2 Participative and relational practice
- 7 Week 2 quiz
- 8 Summary of Week 2
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: Working with identity, reflection and difference
- Introduction
- 1 Ellen reflects on difference
- 2 Reflecting on difference
- 3 Identity and difference
- 4 Identity in reflection: Developing a bicameral orientation
- 5 Identity, difference and the voluntary sector
- 6 Making the most of diverse identities
- 7 Week 3 quiz
- 8 Summary of Week 3
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week4Week 4: Collaborative leadership and exploring the unknown
- Introduction
- 1 Ellen reflects on the unknown
- 2 Language, identity and exploring the unknown
- 2.1 Grappling with the unknown through language
- 2.2 Communicating the unknown
- 2.3 Supporting colleagues in exploring the unknown
- 3 Stretch questions and exploring the unknown
- 4 Stretch questions and wicked problems
- 4.1 Stretch questions in practice
- 5 Week 4 quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 4
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week5Week 5: Generating good conflict in collaborative leadership
- Introduction
- 1 Ellen reflects on the challenge of offering robust conflict
- 2 Introducing agonism
- 3 Generating conflict within the organisation
- 4 Getting on with agonistic conflict
- 5 Working with conflict outside your organisation
- 5.1 The Trussell Trust and campaigning
- 6 Week 5 quiz
- 7 Summary of Week 5
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week6Week 6: Collaborating across organisational boundaries
- Introduction
- 1 Working across organisational boundaries
- 2 Why focus on organisational boundaries?
- 2.1 An organisational perspective
- 2.2 A service user perspective
- 3 Leadership
- 3.1 Leadership media
- 3.2 Integrative leadership
- 3.3 Leadership as the management of tensions
- 4 Back to identity
- 5 Week 6 quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 6
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week7Week 7: Collaborative leadership and power
- Introduction
- 1 Power and influence
- 2 Influencing others
- 3 ‘Speaking truth to power’
- 3.1 Changing the story
- 3.2 Campaigning coalitions
- 4 Collaboration and shared power
- 4.1 Partnership and participation
- 4.2 Power asymmetry
- 5 Influence, meaning-making and micro-level power
- 6 Week 7 quiz
- 7 Summary of Week 7
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week8Week 8: Weaving the collaborative fabric
- Introduction
- 1 Continuing to collaborate
- 2 Nurturing over the longer-term
- 3 Reasons for failure
- 4 Re-structure, re-structure
- 5 Weaving the fabric
- 6 Reflecting on leadership for long-term collaboration
- 7 Week 8 quiz
- 8 Summary of Week 8
- References
- Acknowledgements
