Leading Across Sectors and Professions for Collective Impact
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Many of the complex challenges facing our society today can only be addressed through collaborative leadership across multiple sectors and fields. Yet, few professionals know how to successfully cross organizational boundaries to promote the common good.
Offered through the Graduate School in collaboration with the Center for Integrative Leadership, the Leading Across Sectors and Professions for Collective Impact workshop will enable participants to:
- understand the value of cross-sector leadership as a strategy for addressing large-scale societal challenges.
- know the difference between isolated impact and collective impact.
- be familiar with factors and design features for successful cross-sector collaboration.
- understand attributes of successful cross-sector leadership teams.
- practice a set of interpersonal skills and mindsets necessary to succeed in cross-sector collaborations.
To earn a digital badge, participants are required to write a 500-1000 word reflection paper evaluated by workshop facilitators with a grade of “satisfactory.”
Participants do not need to be University student to register for the workshop or earn the digital badge.
Skills: leadership, partnership development, translating across sectors, problem redefinition and problem solving, critical thinking, working across difference
