[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #24 COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP--- WAVE OF THE FUTURE

Sun Jun 12 21:02:30 EDT 2022

From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #24

June 13, 2022

COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP

-THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE-

I realized something recently that I not realize when I wrote the book on
The Collaborative Leader. The realization occurred during the two-day
Pre-Conference Workshop on Collaborative Leadership in Cuiaba Brazil for the
PNL Conference in May.   I realized that the modifying leadership with the
idea of collaboration is another way of talking about real leadership.
After all, could you even be a leader and not collaborative?

Interesting question.  Could you be a leader and not collaborative?  If you
are not "telling" people things-what to think, what to do, or giving orders,
or delegating-are you leading or bossing?  Sounds like bossing to me.  If
you are leading, you are leading what?  Certainly not the mind because you
are imposing rather than questioning or facilitating.  Certainly not the
heart, because it seems more about getting things done rather than taking
care of the people you are leading.

What is a leader?  Is he or she not someone who wins the minds and hearts of
people?  He wins their thinking and caring to the vision of what can be done
together.  She wins their inner spirit so that they are ready to put their
heart and soul into something.  A person who talks in monologues, who
lectures, who tells, who orders, who operates by "command and control" is
actually not leading anyone anywhere.

It was this that led me to realize that collaborative leadership is actually
the only kind of true leadership; everything else is unreal and inauthentic.
We may use the word "leader" while describing a military "command and
control" approach.  Yet our misuse of the word does not endow the person
with leadership, it is a word, not reality.  It is a map, not the territory.

Now in terms of "collaborative leadership," we have two references.  First,
leading people to collaborate, that is, enabling and empowering the
collaborative processes for those who follow.  Second, collaborating with
people in leading and in the leadership processes.  That is, co-leading with
other leaders.  

The firsdt meaning of collaborative leadership is the easiest of the two
even though it is not easy at all.  It seems especially not easy when you
have followers who are independent souls who have their own minds and who
are active players focused on getting things done.  Leading them is like
"herding cats."   Paradoxically, we want independent thinkers and people
with an entrepreneurial spirit, do we not?  After all, they are
self-motivated, can work independently, and take responsibility.  They are
unlike passive followers who wait to be told what to do and who skillfully
avoid responsibility.

What's challenging is getting such people to not merely cooperate with each
other, but to collaborate in thinking, learning, and deciding.  That means
getting them to think together, learn together, and decide together.  What's
so challenging about that?  It takes time.  It takes patience.  It takes
personal development.  You can't command these.  You have to show the way;
you have to be collaborative yourself.

Most difficult is collaborative leadership when it involves co-leading with
other leaders.  The reason is pretty obvious-ego.  Here the leader's ego
gets in the way because now the leadership is not about the leader at all,
it is through the leader.  Now it is about the success of everyone and of
the team.  Co-leadership means that there will be times when the other
co-leaders outvote you.  Nothing will challenge your motives and
ego-strength as this.  Will you go along with the others and support the
decision?  This will challenge whether you are in it for the glory, the
self-promotion, or for the vision.

Why is any of this important?  Because today, as never before, companies do
not need a single, independent leader; they need a robust leadership team.
And the trend that feeds this is growing stronger every month, thereby
making collaborative leadership the way of the future.

Are most leaders ready for this?  No, not at all.  Most leaders in most
companies still operate by many of the worse traits of the 19th and 20th
centuries.  For many, they don't even know that "command and control" is a
strategy for generating resistance and dis-engagement, not leading.  They
don't even know that group and team coaching has become an essential for all
teams, especially with the leadership team.

For more: See The Collaborative Leader.   Unleashing Leadership:
Self-Actualizing Leaders and Companies.

Once we were energy independent, but with the current administration, that
ended on day 1.  All based on some false and uncritical thinking.  

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L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

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