The document discusses shared leadership, which involves distributing leadership among team members rather than having a single leader. It provides examples of benefits like deeper communication, shared purpose, and social support, as well as potential challenges like longer decision-making and shared blame. The document also outlines prerequisites for shared leadership, like commitment from senior leadership, and ways to implement it through transformation of mindsets, organizational structures, and culture.

1. Shared
Leadership
Iliana Santillan
NCSU
FYD 554 Collaborations and
Partnerships – Dr. Behnke

2. Shared Leadership is…

3. Classic Example: Geese flying in
“V” formation
 Willingness to change
the status quo
 Creating and
communicating vision
 Modeling desired
behavior
 Enabling others to act
 Encouraging each
other

4. Shared…
 Shared blame
 Deeper
communication more
often
 Death by Meeting
 Longer decision
making
 Giving in and
sometimes giving up
 Shared success

5. Deeper
communication
more often
 Sense of purpose
 Two-way flow
 Good drama
 Good leadership
 Balance
 Good timing
 Participation
 Accountability
 Regularity
 Continuous improvement

6. Interactions
 Extend feedback
 Disposed to
accept and rely on
the feedback of
each other
 Shared purpose
 Social support
 Voice

7. Prerequisites  Explicit commitment by
senior leadership to
change
 Upfront investment of
time to educate and
plan
 Fundamental
management
practices in place
 Engagement and
accountability

8. Shared Leadership Spectrum
 Adaptability within
the spectrum
 Orientation toward
shared leadership
 Culture of trust

9. Implementing Shared
Leadership
 Transformation in mindset
and role
 Organizational
restructuring
 Changes in
communication and
decision making
processes
 Changes in
organizational culture
and relationships
Conceptualize
Practice
Encourage

10. Contact information
Iliana Santillan
misantil@ncsu.edu

11. References
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Shared-Leadership
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