The concept of Collective Impact offers a powerful, fresh approach to collaboration. Collective Impact occurs when organisations from a range of sectors agree to tackle specific social problems, with strong commitment to a common agenda, alignment of their efforts and use of shared measures of success.
Megan Thomas and Helen Emmerson will be delivering a two day workshop to assist leaders in: Community organisations; Government agencies; Private sector; Philanthropic organisations; Social change; to apply the Collective Impact Model.
This workshop will be held in Wellington:
19 – 20 November 2013
Day 1 9.00am – 9.00pm
Day 2 9.00am – 6.00pm
Course Content
The workshops are designed to be highly interactive and practical. Giving you tools and ideas to energise your collective impact response, to deliver results by exploring:
- What Collective Impact means
- Ways proven models could be applied to the NZ context
- Ways you could build on your current approach
The workshop will delve into the leadership skills for working effectively with others, including:
- Understanding what it takes to be a leader in collective effort
- Participatory leadership approaches and competencies
- Intentionality versus emergence, chaos and order
- How to move talk to action
Applied action sections will relate learning to the collective responses you wish to tackle:
- Linking frameworks and tools to a current project, or change effort
- Identifying specific actions to enhance current initiatives
- Developing a plan of action to progress
For further information and enrolment click here
For more on Collective Impact, check out our Collective Impact resource page for a growing list of useful links, publications and other resources on Collective Impact in Aotearoa New Zealand.