Stakeholder Dialogues manual now available
The CLI developed a manual on Stakeholder Dialogues for the Sector Project Private Sector Cooperation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The practical guide is available in three languages now. Download it here:
Stakeholder-Dialoge - Manual (German)
Stakeholder Dialogues - Manual (English)
Diálogos entre actores clave - Manual (Spanish)
Stakeholder Dialogues in the German and Arab Water Sector Network
The GIZ’s advisory service “Capacity Development for Partnerships with the Private Sector (CDP)” facilitates a Stakeholder Dialogue between the German and Arab water sectors. This process is supported by the Collective Leadership Institute. Read more here:
Factsheet German and Arab Water Sector Network (English)
Publications that we believe can inspire
Selected publications on Stakeholder Dialogues, Collective Leadership, leadership for sustainability and sustainable (organizational) change:
Leading Change. The Argument for Value-Based Leadership
James O’Toole (1995), Ballantine Books, New York
Management theorist James O’Toole proposes a vision of leadership based on values and respect, targeted at the welfare of their followers. He furthermore depicts why this approach to leadership is effective in complex organizational set-ups and how leaders can constructively deal with individuals resisting fresh and open approaches to change.
The Leader of the Future. New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era.
Editors: Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard (1996), Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.
The Leader of the Future features numerous essays by lead executives, consultants and renowned authors on organizational development and change management. They share their vision, insights and ideas on, amongst others, how leaders emerge, how leadership roles fostering change are defined, how leaders can motivate their followers and how leaders can lead their organization into a sustainable future.
Leadership and Spirit. Breathing new Vitality and Energy into Individuals and Organizations.
Russ S. Moxley (2000), joint publication by Jossey-Bass Publications, San Francisco and Center for Creative Leadership, Greenboro.
Where individuals feel uninspired in their jobs, leaders are required to provide space for their followers to gain perspective, release their very individual strengths, commitment, creative and development potential. In his book, Moxley explains how leadership and spirit must and can be linked in order to foster committed and creative workforce. He underlines his explanations by analyzing prevalent leadership practices that cause the needed spirit in leadership to wither.
Spiral Dynamics. Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change.
Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan (1996), Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Oxford, Carlton.
Spiral Dynamics presents a framework for understanding the dynamic forces in human interaction, be it at work, education, personal lives or geopolitics. It is based on bio-psychological system concepts and provides a toolkit for managing differences in people for more productive and sustainable organizations, communities and living together.
Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions of the future.
Editors: Michael Harvey and JoAnn Danelo Barbour (2009), The James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, Maryland.
Global leadership contains numerous essays by different contributing authors on past and future leadership models, in different thematic and cultural contexts. The book is a volume in the International Leadership Association series „Building Leadership Bridges”.
Leadership is Global – Co-Creating a More Humane and Sustainable World
Editors: Walter Link, Thais Corral and Mark Gerzon (2006), Global Leadership Network.
Leadership is Global comprises of 21 essays on sustainability-oriented leadership. The focus lies on how to optimize cooperation between individuals, organizations and cultures and overcome conflict constructively. During many years, the authors have gained experience in the fields of governance, civil society empowerment, education and learning, economic development as well as cross-sector and cross-cultural partnerships. Based on their experiences, they share their view on how leadership can promote integration and sustainability in a globalised world.
The Dance of Change. The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations.
Peter Senge et al. (1999), Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London
The Dance of Change addresses managers and executives of every level and every sector. It outlines how leaders can cooperate to anticipate the challenges that profound, true organizational change and how to build needed personal and organizational capacities.
The Change Handbook
Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, Steven Cady and Associates, Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2007), San Francisco
This manual features profiles of more than sixty methods such a World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search, Six Sigma and many more. The different authors illustrate approach and application of each method and flesh out the theory with case studies. A comparative chart provided assists in the selection of the appropriate method, additional chapters describe how to best mix, match and sustain results.
Primal Leadership. Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence.
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2002), Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
A leader’s emotions and attitude, as the authors argue, are contagious and have determining influence on energy and enthusiasm of their co-workers and thus on an organization’s success or flounder. Showcasing the examples of different leaders, they illustrate how emotional intelligence in leadership leads to sustainable organizational and business results. Doing so, they highlight six leadership styles and methods (i.e. coaching, pacesetting) that leaders can employ to connect to their followers establishing better relationships and motivation at the workplace.
The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook. How to Transform your Company.
Bob Willard (2009), Ney society Publishers, Gabriola Island (British Colombia)
The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook is an easy to use manual presenting seven items helpful for enterprise leaders, such as change processes, sustainability practices, possible derailers and organizational change methods. Each item is broken down into seven implementation steps or seven methodological examples, making them easily applicable for practitioners.
The Art of Thinking Together: a pioneering approach to communicating in business and in life.
William Isaacs, (1999), Crown Business, New York
Modern conversation is a lot like nuclear physics, argues William Isaacs. Lots of atoms zoom around, many of which just rush past each other. But others collide, creating friction. Even if our atomic conversations don’t turn contentious, they often just serve to establish each participant’s place in the cosmos. One guy shares a statistic he’s privy to, another shares another fact, and on and on. Each person fires off a tidbit, pauses to reload while someone else talks, then fires off another. In Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together, Isaacs explains how we can do better than that.
Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges
Otto Scharmer (2009), Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco
In this ground-breaking book, C. Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways. What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention is the key to what we create. What often prevents us from ‘being present’ is what Scharmer calls our blind spot, the inner place from which each of us operates. Becoming aware of our blind spot is critical to bringing forth the profound systemic changes so needed in business and society today.
Selected online resources on (cross-sector) partnership initiatives and the partnership approach:
ThePartnering Initiative
➲ www.thepartneringinitiative.org
The Partnering Initiative, a program of the International Business Leaders Forum, promotes cross-sector partnerships in the field of sustainable development. The website furnishes an introduction into the benefits and risks of cross-sector partnerships and an overview of relevant definitions. Furthermore, a number of publications are available for download: tool books e.g. for the effective planning and implementation of partnerships or the role of partnership brokers, case studies about successes and challenges of various partnership initiatives: as well as background papers on different aspects of cross-sector partnerships. The publications are currently available in 13 languages.
The SEED Initiative
➲ www.seedinit.org
SEED is an initiative founded in 2002 by IUCN, UNEP and UNDP supporting cross-sector partnership initiatives in developing countries. SEED awards particularly promising partnerships and promotes them also financially. The website features learning material, tools, case studies, further links and publications on different thematic+c clusters. Additionally, practitioners can access the partnership cycle, a toolkit for planning partnership initiatives effectively and sustainably. These are accessible as online tools under
➲ www.entrepreneurstoolkit.org/index.php/Main_Page and
➲ www.empowering-partnerships.org/
Business Partners for Development
➲ www.bpd-waterandsanitation.org
The international cross-sector network Business Partners for Development (BPD) Water and Sanitation works for the improvement of the access to clean water and sanitation facilities in marginalized communities. The website suggests publications as well as links to project partners working specifically on water and waste water management, cross-sector partnerships and public-private partnerships. The handbook for dialogue with enterprises in the field of wastewater management available for download illustrates strategies and examples of sustainable wastewater management systems. The website is available in English, Spanish and French.
The Centre for Partnership Studies
➲ www.partnershipway.org
Based on a holistic partnership approach, the Centre for Partnership Studies conducts research, develops and teaches regarding the relationship between institutions, humans and nature. On their website, they offer methods for structuring institutions and interpersonal relationships with view to a sustainable dealing with nature. Numerous articles, audio- and video files are available in English and Spanish.
Selected websites on Stakeholder Dialogues:
Democratic Dialogue Network
➲ www.democraticdialoguenetwork.org
The Democratic Dialogue Network is an initiative of the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). It offers support to government and civil society actors in establishing Stakeholder Dialogues, democratic dialogues and capacity building measures. As a methodological tool, a handbook for the systematic establishment and implementation of Stakeholder Dialogues is available for download in French, English and Spanish. The entire Website is available in English and Spanish.
Global Knowledge Partnership
➲ www.globalknowledge.org
The multi-stakeholder network Global Knowledge Partnership concentrates on knowledge management and ICT for development. Main focus of their programs and activities is education, poverty reduction and resource mobilization. Numerous publications on Stakeholder Dialogues and case studies on i.e. partnership initiatives using digital technology are available on their site.
Synergos
➲ www.synergos.org
The Synergos Institute works on cross-sector cooperation with view to poverty reduction and social progress. Geographic focus of their work is the developing world. The Synergos website is furnished with many multimedia features such as videos, photo galleries. The online library is sorted according to countries and thematic areas. Additionally, a comprehensive selection of links leads to further thematically related organizations and programs.
AccountAbility
➲ www.accountability21.net
AccountAbility is a network of institutions of different sector collaborating to promote sustainability on global markets through responsible competition, good governance and cross-sector cooperation and Stakeholder Dialogues. The Accountability tools and concepts (i.e., the AA1000 Standard for Stakeholder Dialogues and sustainability) are accessible in up to 8 languages. The entire website is available in English, Spanish and Chinese.
Future Search
➲ www.futuresearch.net
The worldwide network Future Search offers information on the innovative planning tool of the same name, which brings together people of different institutions and sectors into a dialogue-oriented process. The approach has been tested in many countries and cultural contexts, case studies are available for download. On top of that there are reading suggestions and videos i.e. ion a UNICEF project in South Sudan.
