Developing a Collaborative Governance Plan

 

This coaching library provides you with tools, templates and examples to help reflect on each major aspect of creating or updating your governance and leadership approach.

 

Objective Resource(s)
Making Connections Large Group Mural
MODULE 1: INVESTING IN LEADERSHIP THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE 
Module 1 PowerPoint

Investing in Leadership That Makes a Difference

What we are learning about collaborative governance

Tool | The Collaboration Spectrum

Collaborate for Social Change, Forms and Features of Collaboration: A synthesis for the Collaboration for Wellbeing and Health

Paper | The Collaboration Spectrum Revisited

Investing in a different approach: Collective Impact leadership

Tool | The Cynefin Framework

Book | TEN: Engaging People with Lived/Living Experience

The Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook

Navigating leadership dynamics

Culture Design Canvas

Getting to the Collaborative Mindset

Strategies for Building Trust/Trust-related tool (Paper | Turf, Trust, Co-Creation & Collective Impact)

How to Navigate a Turf War at Work

Broken Trust

Sustaining collaborative efforts

TOOL | Collaborative Leadership: Self-Assessment Questionnaires

Leadership Pizza

15% Solutions

Solving the Puzzle of Collaborative Leadership

Homework: Types of Problems

Tool | The Cynefin Framework

Homework: Recruitment tools

Tool | Top 100 Partners Exercise

Tool | Community Reference System

MODULE 2: GOVERNANCE ROLES AND STRUCTURES - CREATING THE RIGHT BALANCE
Module 2 PowerPoint

Governance Roles and Structures

Collaborative governance structure

Tool | The Collaboration Spectrum

Collaborate for Social Change, Forms and Features of Collaboration: A synthesis for the Collaboration for Wellbeing and Health

Paper | The Collaboration Spectrum Revisited

Double Diamond Framework for Innovation

Core Governance Documents:

  1. Governance structure
  2. Principles for working together
  3. Decision-making strategy
  4. Plan on a page
  5. Key milestone report
  6. Regular or annual progress update

Samples:

Kahnawá:ke, Quebec - Governance Structure
GEEARS - Strategic Framework
Living Saint John - Terms of Reference
CBYF Yukon Plan-on-a-Page
Future North Plan-on-a-Page and Decision-Making Map

Homework: Defining Responsibilities and accountabilities

Accountability Framework

Find the Accountability Framework exercise in Mural

MODULE 3: NAVIGATING COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP FROM START-UP TO SUSTAINABILITY
Module 3 PowerPoint Navigating Collaborative Leadership from Start-Up to Sustainability
Phases of Collective Impact - Self-Assessment Collective Impact Self-Assessment and Planning Tool
Conceptualize: build the culture of Collective Impact The Innovation Curve
Effective onboarding
  1. Governance structure
  2. Principles for working together
  3. Decision-making strategy
  4. Plan on a page
  5. Key milestone report
  6. Regular or annual progress update
Decision-making roles

Future North's Decision Authority Matrix (Sudbury)

The Art of Powerful Questions

Homework: Planning for sustainability Collective Impact Self-Assessment and Planning Tool
MODULE 4: EVALUATING THE COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Module 4 PowerPoint

Evaluating the Collaborative Leadership Experience

Collaborative Cycle

Ecocycle Planning

Collaborative leadership

PAPER | Making Sense of the Multiple Faces of Leadership

The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory

Collaborative Leadership: Self Assessment Questionnaires

Trust

How to Build Trust on Your Virtual Team (Youtube)

Navigating transitions

TRIZ 

The Community Canvas Guidebook 

Track progress

TOOL | Outcomes Diary

Homework: Leadership and Community Assessment Tools

TOOL | Sustaining Collective Impact Efforts 

Find the Sustainability Self-Assessment exercise in Mural

MODULE 5: BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE ACTION PLAN
Module 5 PowerPoint Building a Collaborative Governance Action Plan
Homework: Collaborative Governance Action Plan Collaborative Governance Action Plan Canvas