North East Together event 27: The me, we, us of collaborative leadership

What about me as a collaborative leader? How are we connected with each other? How, by us working together, we can we plant and nurture the seeds of collaboration?

We're turning the spotlight on ourselves as we come to the end of this four-part deep focus on collaboration. Across the three events so far, we've

• explored and worked through the NET collaboration framework eight areas
• heard inspirational stories about collaboration locally in North Tyneside and Middlesbrough and across the region's youth sector with network members Mandi Cresswell, then at Meadow Well Connected, now NE Combined Authority; Mark Davies, MVDA; Ania Deputate, LocalMotion Middlesbrough; and, Kevin Franks, Youth Focus North East
• learnt about collaboration and system behaviours of perspective, participation and power, and explored our own behaviour with Dr Max French, Northumbria University and Dr Jo James, then at Newcastle University
• heard how funders are experimenting with funding system change and funding differently with Kathleen Kelly, LocalMotion

In event four, we'll use our me, we, us framing to make all this real for each of us. This is our chance together to ask so what, what now, what about me, what will we do...?

Me: The ‘heartbeat’ of collaborative leadership - reflecting on you as a collaborative leader - your skills, knowledge, experience, beliefs and values, no matter where you are on your leadership journey

We: Web of connectedness - exploring connections in the room and understanding how we're part of a bigger whole

Us: Planting seeds of change - supporting each other in our own missions for social change, to generate and nurture ideas together, and collaborate to make change happen, and platforming your asks, offers and anything else you want to share in your call for action

We can't wait to see you in November.

Our outline timings are

• 13:00-13:30 - arriving, settling in, mingling and informal networking

• 13:30-16:30 – the me, we, us of collaborative leadership – planting the seeds of change

• 16:30-17:00 - informal networking in the room

• 17:00 to later - more informal networking and food, if you are free

This is the fourth and final event in our series of four half-day in person events for 2023 and 2024, all focused on growing and developing our collaborative leadership capacity and capability. We’ll be using this time together to learn about and start to apply and develop the North East Together Collaboration toolkit and framework to support more, and more effective, collaboration across the north east. To help us translate theory into practice, we’ll be spotlighting inspiring examples of collaborative leadership in action – learning from social leaders who are currently leading the way in this work.

We know our region faces challenges and opportunities that no one person or organisation can resolve or respond to alone. We also recognise the need to embrace complexity and systems thinking when we reflect on the health of our social systems in the north east in order to develop more nuanced and ultimately effective interventions. Embracing complexity and systems thinking requires a fundamental commitment to working collaboratively.

Together we can.

North East Together is the network for social change leadership in the north east.

Our collective mission here at North East Together is to create the conditions, and platform for, collaboration to become the norm in the north east and to nurture a healthier social change system. Together we can do this.

We believe that bringing people together to tackle social injustice will create positive change - in our communities, organisations and the social systems we live and work within. Our network offers mutual support, enables collaboration and inspires social leaders. We offer a series of dynamic network events; whole day events, self-organised collaborative working groups; pathways into coaching; and independent social change events. It’s for leaders from the voluntary, charity, social enterprise, education, public and private sectors. It’s for experienced, new and future leaders of organisations, work, and ideas.

North East Together is hosted by Yes We Can and is a collaboration between Yes We Can and Newcastle University Business School. We’re grateful for the support both organisations give to North East Together.

We use your name and email address to run the event. We will send you a confirmation email when you book, the advance information a week or so before the event, and an event follow up email. We will not use your email address for anything else. If you ask to be added to the NET mailing list when you book, we'll add your name and email address to our mailing list, which we run via JISCMail.

We will share information about how to join North East Together if you are not already a member in the confirmation, pre-event and follow up emails. You can also join at the event.

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