Art of Leading Collectively

Fundamental Course

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Discover how Collective Leadership can transform the way you lead, co-create, and drive change with others.

In today’s interconnected world, tackling complex challenges requires more than individual leadership — it calls for the power of collective action. This course equips you with the Collective Leadership Compass, a proven framework to build trust, strengthen collaboration, and align diverse stakeholders around shared goals.

Learn how to shift mindsets, create momentum for co-creation, and design outcome-oriented strategies that keep your projects on track. By applying practical tools and methods, you’ll unlock new ways to navigate complexity and lead together toward meaningful, sustainable impact.

Duration: 4 days
Tuition Fee: 2,000 € in-person, 1,500 € online

This course is part of the Specialist Certification Program.

Who is this course for?
Project Managers & Change Makers

Those starting or steering complex cooperation projects who want to engage diverse stakeholders and move beyond traditional management toward constructive collaboration.

Leaders in All Sectors

Individuals in public, private, or civil society organisations who seek a leadership approach that goes beyond individual authority and inspires collective action and shared responsibility.

Strategists & Sustainability Practitioners

Professionals aiming to address systemic challenges by applying the Collective Leadership Compass to build resilient, outcome-oriented collaborations.

Key learning outcomes

✔ Assess and Map Your Collaboration: Learn to identify what is present and what is missing in your project, and how to realign toward constructive co-creation.

✔ Navigate Complex Change with the Collective Leadership Compass: Use a proven tool to guide projects, adjust strategies, and strengthen collaboration across diverse stakeholders.

✔ Shift Mindsets Toward Collective Leadership: Gain confidence to convince colleagues and partners that leading collectively simplifies and improves the management of complex initiatives.

✔ Enhance Co-Creation Skills: Practice methods to build momentum, improve collaboration, and unlock the collective strengths of your team.

✔ Develop a Six-Month Action Plan: Translate insights into concrete steps that sustain outcome-oriented, constructive co-creation in your daily work.

Course Content
Day 1

Session 1

EXPLORE ALIVENESS AND
THE COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP COMPASS

  • Getting to know each other
  • Shifting the leadership paradigm
  • Connecting to the core – understanding  aliveness at the center of leadership
  • Your personal collective leadership assessment

 

Session 2

RECOGNIZE YOUR
STRENGTHS FOR LEADING COLLECTIVELY

  • Thriving on mutual support – peer coaching as a leadership practice
  • Getting clarity about your leadership learning context
  • Personal stories of leading collectively
  • Identifying your personal Collective Leadership competency pattern
  • Deep dive into the conceptual background of the COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP COMPASS
  • Identifying the system you want to enliven
Day 2

Session 3

YOUR
LEADERSHIP
JOURNEY

  • Quantitative personal leadership assessment: Compass Aspects
  • Opportunities for further enhancing your Collective Leadership competencies
  • A Personal Action Plan for your Collective Leadership Journey

 

Session 4

ACTIVATE YOUR
STRENGTHS FOR LEADING COLLECTIVELY

  • The Generative Energies: Strengthening your leadership resilience
  • Personal Action Plan (continued)
  • Identifying the system you want to enliven
Day 3

Session 5

BUILD MOMENTUM
FOR COLLECTIVE
LEADERSHIP

  • Creating a sense of wholeness in human interaction systems
  • The core of transformative change: Systems aliveness as the key to collaborative success
  • Collaboration ecosystems and how they emerge

 

Session 6

APPLY THE COMPASS
TO IMPROVE COLLABORATION

  • Understanding systems patterns: Quality check for teams and collaboration ecosystems
  • Finding entry points for enlivening collaboration ecosystems
  • Improving the patterns in teams and collaboration ecosystems
Day 4

Session 7

BUILDING BLOCKS
FOR COLLABORATIVE SUCCESS

  • Energizing teams and collaboration systems with emotionally compelling goals
  • Designing process architectures – Leading transformative change guided by the Collective Leadership Compass

 

Session 8

DRIVING
FUTURE
TOGETHER

  • Planning roadmaps for transformative change with the Compass
  • Making the Compass work for us
  • Personal Action Plan (continued)
  • Resources for the journey
  • Course feedback and Certificates
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