Mobilizing, Supporting, and Working with Collaborative Mission Leaders

In July 2016, visionSynergy and Mark Avery co-facilitated a global online learning conversation on the Synergy Commons. The burst group focused on exploring the key characteristics of organizational and network collaboration leaders and how organizations could best support and work with these leaders and their gifts.

A Burst Group Summary was produced to collect the key ideas that were shared over the course of 14 days by participants from around the world. Network and organizational leaders will find it a useful resource to help them understand more about collaborative leaders how to support and work with them. This burst group discussion will remain on the site as a community resource.

The Burst Group discussion took place over 14 days and involved 37 voices, 6 topic threads, and 66 replies. 49 members of the Synergy Commons joined the group. Mark Avery and Daniel Dow co-facilitated the discussion in partnership with a global team of contributors and member participants.

Burst groups are facilitated, time-limited conversations on specific topics and issues of interest to network leaders and their teams. The goal of these conversations is to create a learning dialogue in which different viewpoints and insights are shared and discussed.

The Four Guiding Questions:

1. Profile: What are the Key Characteristics of Collaborative Mission Leaders?
2. Support System: What Kind of Support Do Collaborative Leaders need?
3. Effective Design: How might we design organizations to effective leverage the gifts of a collaborative leader?
4. Evaluation: How might we evaluate the effectiveness of a collaborative mission leader?

Download Resource:

1. Burst Group Summary: Mobilizing, Supporting, and Working with Collaborative Mission Leaders – 1 of 3. [PDF}

Additional Resources:

• The New Network Leader
  http://ssir.org/network_entrepreneurs
• 4 Principles of Network Entrepreneurship
  http://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_most_impactful_leaders_youve_never_heard_of
• The Future of Leadership Development
  http://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_future_of_leadership_development_groups_networks_and_partnerships
• The Dawn of Systems Leadership
  http://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadership
• Boundary Spanning Leaders
  http://insights.ccl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/BoundarySpanningLeadership.pdf

Contributors:

A big thank you goes out to Mark Avery and the team of global contributors who helped contribute to this conversation. Kudos as well to the members who also shared their insights.