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Twyfords Collaborative Governance Pathway
1st August, 2014
A new way for leaders and the ‘community of interest’ to do business together on complex planning processes and
“wicked problems”
Typical ‘Complex’ Scenarios• No agreement on the scope of the plan• Lots of uncertainty, disagreement around the data• No clear solution • Many perspectives and ways to look at the issues• Political leaders are very anxious• ‘Competing futures’• Values and ethical considerations important• No clear path forward
“No one entity alone – no individual government (local, state, or national), corporation, or NGO – can address the sustainability issues we face. No one has sufficient resources. No one has sufficient understanding. And no one has sufficient credibility and authority to connect the larger networks of people and organisations that real change must engage.”
Peter Senge – The Necessary Revolution
Collaboration moves beyond shared agreements to become a process of shared creation – the groups should create an understanding that didn’t exist previously and couldn’t be arrived at individually. Something is new that wasn’t there before, including transformation among the collaborators.
Zorich, Diane, Günter Waibel, and Ricky Erway: 2008. ‘Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums (PDF)’
"In these adaptive cases (ie complex situations), reaching an effective solution required learning by the stakeholders involved in the problem, who must then change their own behaviour in order to create a solution."
Collective Impact- Stanford Social Innovation Review
John Kania & Mark Kramer, 2011
Conventional Collaborative… deciding what can be influenced by the community and what can’t
… determining the scope of the collaboration collectively
… assessing risks that certain interest groups pose to our plan
… identifying who has an interest in this plan so we can invite their contribution
… providing reasonable opportunities for people to provide feedback or input
… co-designing how we will work with the ‘community of interest’ on this challenge
… trying to obtain feedback on the merit of various options we are considering … co-creating possible solutions together
… considering feedback provided by the community & possibly making changes
… deliberating over possible solutions taking into account agreed criteria
Catherine Howe, @curiousc, via Twitter, 31st July, 2014
Complex multidisciplinary working
Unlock collective wisdom
Develop shared values
No one person has the truth
We will all have to walk away from the arrogance of professional
knowledge and embrace humility in trying to shape a constantly
changing reality
Collaboration
Reverse logic
Stakeholders support implementation
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Stakeholders co-develop the strategy or plan
Stakeholders agree how they will work together
Stakeholders co-define what they want to achieve
Sponsors believes collaboration is the way to go
Stakeholders understand each other’s perspectives
Collaborative Governance
Practical tools for the process
• A decision-maker commitment
statement• A Complexitometer
• Appreciative stakeholder mapping tool
• Dilemma definition tool
• Governance arrangements
• Collaboration design template
• Processes for dialogue and deliberation
Implementation template with roles and responsibilities
Iterative nature of Collaborative Governance
Commitment to Collaboration
Co-define
Co-design
Co-create
Co-deliver
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“Leaders do not need to know all the answers. They do need to ask the right questions!”
Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie 1996 ‘The Work of Leadership’
Implications for leaders