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CONNECTED Community Webinar SeriesFeaturing the Big Idea of Relational Leadership

09 January 2018

Vertical Leadership Development as Scaffold and Spotlight: The RISE Approach to Leadership Development

Kara Laverde, Deputy DirectorPeople & Organization Potential

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


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Q: What is relational leadership?

A: The idea of relational leadership is a powerful way to understand leadership

as the capacities and actions of social systems.

Leadership is an emergent property of relations (Denis, Langley & Sergi, 2012).

Leadership is a relational process of shared sense making and meaning making

(Bill Drath,The Deep Blue Sea, 2001).

Our purpose is to share and create knowledge, and to shape the

Center for Creative Leadership’s research agenda in this area.


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CCL has a body of research and practice which

builds on a relational view of leadership.

• Network Leadership

• Boundary Spanning

• Vertical Development / Transformation

• Leadership Culture

• Leadership Strategies

• The DAC Framework

• Dialogue

• Leadership for Societal Impact

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THE CONNECTED WEBINAR SERIES 2017-2018

1. DriveTime: Transforming Your Leadership Culture.

2. The DAC Framework and Relational Leadership.

3. Barry Oshry: The Structures We Fall Into Shape Our Consciousness

4. Leadership Beyond Boundaries and SOGI.

5. Boundary Spanning Leadership: Top Ten Lessons of Experience.

6. CCL Points of View on Leadership Development Through the Lens of Relational Leadership

7. Vertical Leadership Development in a Complex World

8. Relational practices for DAC: Project Review and Input


Next …

DAC and the Collective Capacity to Lead

at the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

with Cindy McCauley, Patrick Sweet & Robert Burnside

Friday February 16, 9 am (Eastern)

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This assessment offers a comprehensive, evidenced-based thought foundation addressing the challenges of

leading global humanitarian operations, and for developing such organisations and their leaders embedded in

the tensions of global and local ecosystems.


Development = Horizontal + Vertical

Vertical Development

Growing abilities to think and act in complex, systemic, and interdependent ways.

Earned through life experience.

It’s about how you think.

Horizontal Development

Adding knowledge and skills.

Transmitted from experts.

It’s about what you think.

There are two types of leadership development:

Petrie, N. (2014). Vertical leadership development, Part 1: Developing leaders for a complex world. Center for Creative Leadership. White Paper.

Vertical Leadership Development

Resources atwww.ccl-explorer.org/category/vertical-leadership-development/www.ccl.org/Transformations

Nick Petrie’s white papers (also search www.ccl.org)

Transformations Cards based on Seven Transformations

Bill Torbert’s short videos

Research Forum: Advancing Vertical Leadership Development in a Complex World with Global Leadership Associates

http://www.ccl-explorer.org/category/vertical-leadership-development/

http://www.ccl.org/Transformations

http://www.ccl.org/

Contact Richard Izard at [email protected]

© 2014 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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By Chris Ernst,

Steven Rice,

and Adrianne

Van Strander

A NEW APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

January 9, 2018

Kara Laverde, Deputy Director

People & Organization Potential

© 2014 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

We work with partner organizations around the world to reduce inequity

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THE SCOPE OF OUR WORK

For the Year ended December 31, 2015. Amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars. Value of Grants total represents grants only.


OUR CULTURE JOURNEY

We're working to create the culture we need for the impact we want.

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STAKEHOLDERS VOICES

Don’t do anything that reinforces

the hierarchy.

Engage us at all levels in

design

I don’t want to be on this culture

and leadership journey alone,

where it feels counter-cultural.

There's no playbook for the

culture work- how do we

make it continuous and

connected

Less is more- we’re overwhelmed.

Focus on helping us get more

capacity rather than adding a lot of

new skills

Create a sense of

connection, a responsibility

for each other.

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OUR NEW APPROACH TO

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT


GROUNDED IN FOUR ESSENTIAL BELIEFS

Take an inclusive approach to grow both

current and future leaders simultaneously.

Grow adaptive leadership capabilities that balance and integrate the

technical requirements of leadership

Expand leadership development beyond

foundation walls via an open source

strategy.

Reinforce collective success via a focus of

leading across internal and external boundaries

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Polarity

Thinking

Being

Resilient

Being

Present

Inclusive

Leadership

Leading

Self

Begin Your

Journey

Journaling

Planning

Guide

Leading Across

Boundaries

Cadre

Meetings

Coaching

LAB Partner

Community

of Practice

Mentoring Sharing

Leading It

Forward

Lifeline

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING

“I’m making it a habit

to stop and breathe

when I get

overwhelmed.”

“I’m checking myself

against stories I’m

making up about

people.”

“I improved my capability

to experience my emotion

without judgement.”

“By walking away from my cell phone and closing my laptop, my conversations have become more meaningful and engaging.”

“I learned to ask more

questions to draw out

others who might not be

speaking up.”

• People are willing to get vulnerable and talk about their feelings in the workplace… and for some people,

sitting in a circle with no tables is vulnerability enough! (Start where they are).

• Engage the end-users all along the way.

• It’s okay to go out with a 85%-baked pilot, and adjust (don’t lock your design in too soon).

• Surface design tensions and trade-offs and be explicit in our choices.

• Keep a steady drip of change management and communication going.

• Walk the talk-- hold things loosely and stay flexible!

WHAT WE’RE LEARNING

THANK YOU

Leadership & Management

Connected webinars, rise at gates foundation & vertical development