Learning Outcomes

Collaborative Leadership

A. Definition: The student demonstrates ability to involve community stakeholders and key decision-makers in developing, articulating and sustaining a policy vision.

B. Competencies: Knowledge: The student knows the importance of policy leadership that builds and maintains an understanding of what collaboration means, why it is important, and how community conditions can be improved by employing the collaboration process

Abilities: The student synthesizes information from multiple perspectives while serving community interests, building relationships with citizen groups and leaders, analyzing political influences and building the action steps for a community approach to policy issues.

Abilities: The student mobilizes and organizes community action based on the diverse contributions of governments, business, and community-based organizations helping them in addressing community issues and has skills in the application of knowledge of group processes and group interaction. These include the ability to build consensus and sustain participation among various stakeholders using skills such as listening, forgoing judgment, engaging in inquiry and dialogue, reflecting and learning, facilitation, task completion, solving problems and resolving conflicts using different decision making processes appropriate for collaborative groups.

Ability: The student sets clear direction for coalitions, partnerships and collaborative implementation of sustained policy change. These skills include ability to negotiate agreements, engage in appropriate risk taking as part of the process of change, share resources and expertise, and maintain responsibility to achieve a common goal in a collaborative setting.

C. Pre-requisite: Knowledge of how to find community information and ability to engage and build trust with community stakeholders.