#3 - Tova Averbuch: Shared Leadership - Challenges and Opportunities

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