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Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

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6 Summary of Week 6

This week, you have begun to explore the challenges of leading across organisational boundaries. In this inter-organisational collaborative context, leaders find themselves managing tensions because the interests and purposes of collaborating organisations are not the same – even when they share an overarching purpose. This means that a certain amount of pragmatism is perhaps inevitable when leading collaboratively across organisational boundaries. For leaders of voluntary organisations, it may also mean challenging their own organisations as well as the organisations they collaborate with.

Throughout this course, you have considered ways in which individuals lead, not because of their position, but rather through practices which probe, question and challenge, rather than accepting the status quo. You will continue to explore this questioning and challenging approach to leadership in next week’s studies.

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