Capacity Building

Details

Whether individuals develop their collaborative leadership individually, through sponsored training programs, or through the Collaborative Leadership Training Program, the RESOLVE capacity building approach stresses several common elements.

• Self Assessment and Personal Collaborative Skills Growth Plan - Collaborative leaders work in different contexts, have different backgrounds and levels of expertise, and have different interests or degrees of confidence in their skills to organize and conduct collaborative efforts. Thus, each person, with assistance from a coach, sets different learning objectives and plans for achieving and modifying these over time. Each participant completes:
  • A diagnostic tool to describe past experience with collaborative processes and to assess what skills have and have not been gained.
  • An assessment tool to understand the characteristics of the project or program within which the participant will be working during the coaching/mentoring period and the roles/functions the participant anticipates having.
  • A personal goal-setting tool, which can be updated periodically.
     
• Basic Orientation - One to two-days (depending on number of participants) is devoted to orientation to discuss the design of the coaching program, review basic consensus building concepts and skills, and establish relationships to create an atmosphere of trust and collegiality on which to build the rest of the program.
   
• Individual Coaching - Coaching and mentoring might include discussions, joint reflection and analysis of past situations, giving developmental advice, working through challenges or surfacing unseen dilemmas tied to current leadership responsibilities. Coaching and mentoring may occur through 1:1 discussions, observation by the coach, role play or rehearsal, or shadowing the coach or other collaborative leader followed by debriefing with the coach.
   
• Peer Technical and Dispute Resolution Network - Peer learning is supported through a regularly facilitated conference call, a facilitated web-based conference site, and e-mail list serve which allow participants to share progress, raise issues and challenges, and access resources of peers and experts.