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Key points
• Background and development of Liberating
Leadership
• Brief introduction to the model
• Progress to date and future developments
Leadership & Governance NSS
workstream
Our vision is that leadership and governance are at the heart of
organisational effectiveness, and that the success and
sustainability of third sector organisations depends on how they are
led and governed. Our mission is to build the capacity of support
providers to develop, promote, and champion excellence in
leadership and governance practices in the third sector.
NCVO, ACEVO and CSC
Leadership & Governance Aim
2. Leadership Development: Support providers
will be better equipped with new models and
resources to assist third sector organisations
to overcome barriers in accessing leadership
development
Barriers to Leadership Development for
community groups
• Lack of recognition of leadership – cultural,
language, ideological and personal
• Context
• Time
• Cost
Key Influences
• Focus on concept of collective leadership rather than
individual leaders
• Community development values – a bottom up
approach
• Paulo Friere – recognition of existing leadership skills
and abilities and need to start where people are
already at
• Saul Alinsky – focus on leadership to achieve social
change
• Contributions from Coalition members inc ECA
Issues during development
• Challenge existing perceptions of leadership
• Need to be able to describe how collective leadership
in community sector actually works – focus is on
trustees/management committees
• Articulate why leadership is important for the
community sector
• Develop a practical programme for support provider
organisations to support development of the above
leadership
• A new model for the
community sector
• Toolkit for using with
community groups
Training programme for
development workers
Understanding Leadership
To liberate leadership, first you have to
understand it
• Explore views and experience of leadership
• Challenge jaded assumptions
• Explore the meaning of leadership
The new model – four Essential Elements
Applying Principles - leadership in the
community sector means;
Empowerment:
• being participative
• being accountable
• enabling others
• building a vision
Taking action for social
change:
• tackling exclusion
• building bridges
• taking a stand
• acting with enterprise
Applying Principles • Exploring values as the basis for motivations and
actions
• Understanding the principles that underpin leadership
• Using the principles as guidance on how to do
leadership
• Adopting the principles as a framework for leadership
Liberating Leadership toolkit
• To accompany the training programme
• An introduction to the new model and how to use with
groups
• Includes 29 participatory tools to use with groups or
an open workshop
• Further resources and reading
• Website with discussion forums and additional
downloads
Liberating Leadership training programme
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For development workers of support provider organisations
3 day programme (2 day residential plus 1 day)
Introduction to Liberating Leadership model and toolkit
Try out using some of the tools that have been developed
Feedback session on using the tools with groups where they
can learn from each other’s experience
• Equip them with a model and resources to organise a short
workshop about leadership or work 1:1 with a group
Progress to date
• SKiLD (NAVCA) delivering the training
programmes
• 2 successful programmes so far and another
next week
• Limited impact on groups as DW still working
out how to use tools
What Next?
• Launching Liberating Leadership – 20th Nov
• National training programmes planned for Nov, Jan &
Feb
• Starting to plan regional training programmes for
2010
• Partnering with Coalition members to deliver training
programmes to particular sub-sector support
providers where appropriate
• Interested in ideas about how to develop Liberating
Leadership for the future
• Hazel Capper
• Leadership and Governance
Programme Manager
• T 020 7336 9424
• E [email protected]
Community Sector Coalition
A voice for the community sector.
CSC is a coalition of national umbrella
organisations whose work focuses on the
community sector who want to champion the
unique contribution that the community
sector brings to civil society.
www.communitysectorcoalition.org.uk
CSC Aims
• To campaign for policy change that
will benefit the community sector
• To deliver a programme of research
and learning about the community
sector
• To enable members to share
information and identify priorities for
collective action
CSC Members
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ACRE
ADEPT
bassac
BTEG
BTCV
CLES
CCWA
CDX
CDF
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DTA
ECA
FbRN
FCDL
FCFCG
Mind
NAVCA
NCVYS
TPAS
VAN
• Advice UK
• Community
Matters
• NovasScarman
• Urban Forum
• Community
Foundation
Networks
Key Areas of Work
• Representation (Third Sector Partnership Board & NI4 delivery group
and Ministerial Task Force on Climate Change, Third Sector Research Centre Advisory
Board)
• Responding to consultations
• Compact Refresh
• Celebrating EAC
• Leadership and Governance NSS
ECA and the Coalition
Mutually supportive relationship – Coalition
benefit from expertise in adult learning and
ECA from support of broader Coalition
• nominate Coalition representative on DIUS
National Advisory Forum on informal adult
learning
• leading EAC deliverer, innovator,
collaborator
• Global reach – Ministers and EU
Future developments
• Developing a Manifesto document
• Writing Strategic Plan for 2010-13
• recruiting for a new Chair
• reviewing our hosting/constitution
• encouraging sector collaboration to
address climate change issues