A Guide to Collaborative Leadership

TED Talks very often carry great nuggets of wisdom (NoWs).

The NoW here (Lorna Davis) is about sharing the personal experience of learning the benefits of creating the right environment for an engaged workforce.

It describes the benefit to organisational performance, especially in the context of the ever widening remit that a board finds itself handling in terms of complete stakeholder management satisfaction.

The speaker points to ways of achieving things as a whole body, not just one individual herding ‘their’ people along a particular route.

She speaks to an enabling culture without actually saying this. She points to a true leader showing vulnerability, inclusiveness and therefore respecting wide diversity of thought and contribution. Lorna gives examples of this not just within an organisation but along its complete value chain and being able to work on topics of mutual interest with the ‘competition’.

Enjoy the 14 minutes. Time well spent.