Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations: Online Course from OpenLearn

This free 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...

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

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