Being a Collaborative Leader
(And Getting Things Done)

Leader: David Spann, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium

Length of workshop: 2 days

General Overview: The Being a Collaborative Leader course will help you discover how you can be a leader who motivates people to work better together, deliver results faster, and exceed basic customer satisfaction by creating an environment in which others succeed. You'll understand the organizational and behavioral barriers that prevent your teams from being as agile and adaptive as they could be. By developing an understanding of the beliefs, behaviors, and practices of successful Collaborative Leaders, you'll become one, and be better positioned to serve your teams so they can reduce cycle times, increase customer satisfaction and enhance organizational value.

Workshop Goals: This 2-day course will ensure you:

• Understand the fundamental belief structure of Collaborative Leadership
• Practice applying the six Collaborative Leadership Behaviors
• Define the most important leadership practices of a Collaborative Leadership
• Create a plan to translate the course information into personal commitment.

Workshop Agenda David Spann instructs in an interactive training style, highlighting practical applications of Collaboration Leadership and divulging real life experience.

Day 1

• Introductions and Objectives
• Discuss the background research and belief structure for the course
• Define and experience the six Collaborative Leadership Behaviors:
• Strategic
• Tactical
• Innovative
• Consensual
• Excitement
• Empathy
• Work through what it takes to make a personal behavioral change
• What worked well/What could be improved

Day 2

• Understand what it takes to ask for and review personal feedback
• Making Offers
• Making a Request
• Deferring
• Define and practice the issue resolution process
• Discuss the practices that lead to:
• Creating clear vision and purpose
• Defining and tracking priorities
• Having candid conversations
• Expecting emergent results
• Establish a personal leadership action plan
• Recap, review and refresh

Additional Reading:

• The Facilitative Mind of Agile by David Spann. (identifies the correlation between Agile leadership and professional facilitation behaviors.)
• Being A Collaborative Leader (And Getting Things Done) by David Spann. (Identifies the basic beliefs, behaviors and practices of a Collaborative Leader.)