“Increasingly, our effectiveness in these roles [leading city movements] is going to be tied to our competency in our capacity to practice collaborative leadership. This is especially the case in city-wide efforts that often involve players from multiple domains of society with diverse backgrounds, values, and agendas.”
– Reggie McNeal
Summary
In this blogpost, Reggie McNeal shares eight insights on effective Kingdom Collaboration for City-reaching Network / Movement leaders.
These collaboration insights are drawn from his 2018 book “Kingdom Collaborators: Eight Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn the World Upside Down.
Key Ideas
- Leadership is personal, not just positional
- Trust is the currency of collaborative teams
- Communication is the lifeblood of collaboration
- Mission is the key affinity for collaborative efforts
- Accountability must be both championed and practiced
- Expectations are clear and spelled out
- Roadblocks to collaboration must be called out and addressed
- Remember the 3 P’s of collaboration: patience, persistence, and perseverance
Citation / Resources
- Reggie McNeal. How to Raise the Collaborative IQ of Your City. Blog. City Gospel Movements. 2019
Related Resources
- David Hackett. How to Nurture of a Culture of Exchange
- Ellen Livingood. Five First Year Networking Lessons
- Joel Huyser. Growing the Gospel: Planting Mission Networks in Every Community