1. SESSION 4
COMMON PURPOSE
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2. INTERACTIVE SESSION
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3. THE MODEL
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4. 4

5. WHAT DOES THE ‘MODEL’ HAVE
TO DO WITH LEADERSHIP?
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6. RECAP
SESSIONS 1 TO 3
• Social Change (v/s charity)
• Technical / Adaptive changes
• Root Cause Analysis
• Systems Thinking
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7. HOW IS THE LDP AN
ILLUSTRATION OF
ADAPTIVE/ TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP ?
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8. RECAP
SESSIONS 1 TO 3
• Citizenship (Citoyenneté + Civisme)
• JFK Speech
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9. Community Value
Citizenship
Believing in a process whereby an
individual and/or group become
responsibly connected to the community
and to society through some activity.
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10. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
COMMUNITIES ARE DESTROYED?
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO
MITIGATE THE CONSEQUENCES?
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11. COLLABORATION
Collaboration – The social change
model defines collaboration as:
• working together toward common
goals / common purposes
• by sharing responsibility, authority,
and accountability in achieving these
goals.
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12. COLLABORATION
Not to be confused with…
• Competition
– Work hard to do better than others
• Co-operation
– helps each party to achieve its own individual
goals, not common goals
• Compromise
– involves a party losing something in order to
accomplish goals 12

13. DIVERSITY
Diversity is an essential part
of collaboration
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14. MAKING
COLLABORATION WORK
• Building trust
• Communicating
• Our destinies are inter-related
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15. COLLABORATION and
ADAPTIVE Leadership
• Collaboration on technical problems
• Collaboration on adaptive challenges
• Adapt your own behaviour
• ‘Victims’ have to adapt too
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16. DOES THE PREVAILING
ELITIST VIEW OF
LEADERSHIP ENCOURAGE
COLLABORATION?
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17. WHAT IS THE LINK
BETWEEN LEADERSHIP
AND HIERARCHY /
AUTHORITY ?
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18. HOW DO WE DEFINE
LEADERSHIP ?
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19. WHY DO PEOPLE
SUPPORT THIS ELITIST
MODEL OF LEADERSHIP ?
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20. AFTER
SESSIONS 1 - 3
• Do you have a clearer picture of what the
LDP is about?
• What were your expectations from the LDP?
• Has your understanding of Leadership
changed?
• Do you feel you have started to change?
• Ideas for growing the leadership network
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21. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
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22. SESSION 4
COMMON PURPOSE
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23. OBJECTIVES OF SESSION 4
• By the end of this session, participants will
be able to:
– Describe the three key components of
Common Purpose
– Engage others within a group to generate
shared Visions, Aims and Values
– Identify or Develop Common Purpose
within groups that they are part of
– analyze the role of common purpose within
other aspects of the Social Change Model of
Leadership Development
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24. WHAT IS COMMON
PURPOSE?
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25. COMMON PURPOSE
• Common Purpose has 3 key components:
– its occurrence within groups
– its presence in shared visions, aims,
and values
– and its role in working with others.
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26. COMMON PURPOSE
1 - Groups
What is a Group?
– Groups contain more than just a single
person
– Groups strive to achieve a certain
purpose or goal
– Groups involve some sort of interaction,
cooperation, or commitment to the
common goal
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27. COMMON PURPOSE
2 – shared Vision, Aims, Values
Definitions
• Vision: What is the group’s ideal
future?
• Aims: Why does the group exist?
• [Core] Values: How do group
members agree to treat
themselves and each other
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28. COMMON PURPOSE
2 – shared Vision, Aims, Values
CP is a Steadying and Bonding Force if
• it has truly originated from the
group
• the group is truly invested in that
common purpose
• it is fully embraced by all members
of a group, not just its ‘leaders’.
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29. COMMON PURPOSE
3 – Working Together
• Decision making: 6 methods, depending on
context, the type of decision, and time
available for discussion
– Decision by authority without discussion
– Decision by authority after discussion
– Expert member
– Average members’ opinions
– Majority control
– Minority control 29

30. COMMON PURPOSE
3 – Working Together
Decision making – Consensus
– ALL team members have been given the
opportunity to share their thoughts
– ALL are comfortable with the decision
– ALL are willing to support its implementation
(Rayner, 1996).
– Does not necessarily imply that everyone is
satisfied
– Can be a very difficult thing to achieve
– Is not necessarily always the best option ! 30

31. COMMON PURPOSE
Related Concepts :
• Personalized vision
• Socialized vision
• Consensus
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32. COMMON PURPOSE
Related Concepts (1)
• Personalized vision - Created when the
“person in charge” comes up with their
own vision or plan and passes it on to
other group members or subordinates.
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33. COMMON PURPOSE
Related Concepts (2)
• Socialized vision - Constructed when
group members collectively contribute
toward developing their group’s purpose
and aims.
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34. COMMON PURPOSE
Related Concepts (3)
• Consensus - Method of group decision-
making in which all group members have
had the opportunity to voice their
concerns and are comfortable enough
with the decision to support its
implementation, regardless of whether
all or most group members fully agree with
the decision (Rayner, 1996).
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35. COMMON PURPOSE
Challenges
• A person’s inflexibility with engaging
others in their own personalized vision.
• A group becoming paralyzed within the
process of developing a socialized vision.
• Regularly revolving memberships make it
difficult to keep the group’s vision and
common purpose meaningful.
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36. LINKS WITH THE 6 C’S
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37. The Model
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38. INTERACTIVE SESSION
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39. BREAK
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40. INTERACTIVE SESSION
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41. INTERACTIVE SESSION
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42. LIST 10 KEY SOCIAL
PURPOSES INDIVIDUALLY
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43. • Assume that your team is the newly-elected
cabinet of ministers
• List 10 common purposes on which the cabinet
would work
• Choose TWO top priority purposes
• What is currently being done proactively with
respect to these two purposes ?
• What is currently being done reactively with
respect to these two purposes ?
• What should be done? 43

44. • Each group will identify one rapporteur and
one observer
• The rapporteur will present the two key
common purposes identified as well as what
is being / should be done about them
• The observer will present the process
through which the common purposes were
identified and prioritized as well as how
consensus was achieved
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45. Q&A
FEEDBACK
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