#3 - Tova Averbuch: Shared Leadership - Challenges and Opportunities
Update: 2024-11-09
Description
Tova Averbuch shares insights from her extensive experience as a consultant, teacher, and facilitator of Organizational Development. Opening space on a level playing field means sharing leadership and power, which must have a good reason. She provides striking examples of when and how this works, even better in hierarchical organizations. Consultants/facilitators adopt the role of a midwife, fostering authentic participation of the formal leaders and inviting everyone needed in ever-widening circles in the system. Transcript
Chapters
- Introduction
- Looking for a new paradigm, bumping into Open Space Technology
- My first Open Space experience
- A playful invitation
- Facilitator as a midwife
- Don't judge leaders who are afraid to lose control
- Worries of leaders are information
- An example of a covenant with a High Tech startup
- The system is the client
- Ever-widening circles of engagement, the beginning never stops
- Hierarchy helps create a (temporary) level playing field
- Check-out
More information
- Website Tova Averbuch
- Book Initiating and Inviting Generative Change. Entry and Contracting for Emergent Outcomes in Result Driven Organizations. More info and order
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