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    This document provides an overview of bridging leadership, which focuses on promoting multi-stakeholder collaboration to address complex challenges. Bridging leadership involves convening stakeholders, facilitating the development of a shared vision and collective response, and enabling the co-creation of solutions. It represents a shift from a sole leader controlling solutions to a leader facilitating collaboration between diverse groups to develop tailored, sustainable solutions. Effective bridging leadership requires skills like listening, empathy, systems thinking, and managing collaborative processes.

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    This document provides an overview of bridging leadership, which focuses on promoting multi-stakeholder collaboration to address complex challenges. Bridging leadership involves convening stakeholders, facilitating the development of a shared vision and collective response, and enabling the co-creation of solutions. It represents a shift from a sole leader controlling solutions to a leader facilitating collaboration between diverse groups to develop tailored, sustainable solutions. Effective bridging leadership requires skills like listening, empathy, systems thinking, and managing collaborative processes.

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    An overview

    Bridging leadership is a leadership style that


    focuses on promoting multi-stakeholder
    processes to address complex social,
    institutional, and environmental challenges.

    2
    Bridging leadership is about leading collaborative action to
    bring about change by convening stakeholders to the problem
    (ownership).
    It is a tool which helps stakeholders to adopt a social
    innovation that leads to a social outcome, and carries it out
    through new institutional arrangements (co-creation).
    It is a process of dialogue and engagement that enables
    stakeholders to arrive at a common vision and collective
    response to the challenge (co-ownership).

    3
    The concept of bridging leadership was developed by an international
    group of researchers and development practitioners convened by Synergos.
    Today, the concept incorporates our experiences of more than 30 years promoting cross-
    sector collaboration, as well as experience and research of colleagues in places including
    the Philippines, Latin America, and Africa.

    4
    Bridging leadership represents a paradigm shift in thinking about leadership.

    From leader as To leader as

    Commander and controller Facilitator and convener

    Sole owner of the problem and the solution Prime mover, but a co-owner of the problem and
    solution

    Having all the answers Creator of the conditions where answers emerge

    A single intelligence Focuser of collective attention and the distiller of


    collective intelligence

    Head of one organization Ligament between organizations and institutions

    Expert Non-expert, mobilizing the expertise and inner-


    knowing of others

    Holder of power Distributor of power, enabler of new things to


    emerge
    Bridging leadership builds trust
    and is based on trust.
    No bridging leader or process
    will be successful without
    trust in both the leader and the process.
    Bridging leadership skills include:
    • Listening, empathy and self-awareness
    • Ability to connect with diverse audiences/stakeholders
    • Being secure, with low ego needs
    • Systems thinking
    • Ability to design, convene and manage a process of partnership.
    The Synergos Approach: Bridging Leadership
    Solutions to social problems are too often built in silos. Our approach—centered on bridging
    leadership—helps diverse stakeholders build trust and collaborate across divides to co-create more
    tailored, durable interventions.

    BRIDGING LEADERSHIP

    PERSONAL REFLECTION SYSTEMS THINKING BRIDGING AND INCLUSIVE


    AND INNER WORK COLLABORATION
    •Increasing awareness of the self, •Using proven tools to look at social •Working with key stakeholders to
    others, and the larger system problems from diverse perspectives, leverage collective resources and
    •Aligning individual intentions for analyzing them systemically action
    authentic action •Selecting leverage points for action •Building sustainable relationships that
    •Removing personal obstacles to can carry the partnership forward
    effectiveness as a leader
    Help us create a world built on trust.
    Synergos offers advisory services, learning journeys, retreats and
    other special events, custom training, and knowledge resources to
    individuals, families, and organizations.
    To learn more, contact us at collaborate@synergos.org.

    synergos.org

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