Creating a level playing field for collaboration

#3 - Tova Averbuch: Shared Leadership - Challenges and Opportunities

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Tova Averbuch shares insights from her extensive experience as a consultant, teacher, and facilitator of Organizational Development. Opening space on a level playing field means sharing leadership and power, which must have a good reason. She provides striking examples of when and how this works, even better in hierarchical organizations. Consultants/facilitators adopt the role of a midwife, fostering authentic participation of the formal leaders and inviting everyone needed in ever-widening circles in the system. Transcript


Chapters

  • Introduction
  • Looking for a new paradigm, bumping into Open Space Technology
  • My first Open Space experience
  • A playful invitation
  • Facilitator as a midwife
  • Don't judge leaders who are afraid to lose control
  • Worries of leaders are information
  • An example of a covenant with a High Tech startup
  • The system is the client
  • Ever-widening circles of engagement, the beginning never stops
  • Hierarchy helps create a (temporary) level playing field
  • Check-out


    • More information

    • Website Tova Averbuch
    • Book Initiating and Inviting Generative Change. Entry and Contracting for Emergent Outcomes in Result Driven Organizations. More info and order
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      Creating a level playing field for collaborationBy Tonnie van der Zouwen