Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
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Contents

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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