Collaborative Leadership

Collaborative Leadership International Family Justice Center Conference April 2012

Outcomes • Understand and apply a definition of collaborative leadership to your organization • Determine the collaborative maturity of your organization • Understand and apply the collaborative leadership capabilities to yourself and your organization

Agenda • Collaborative leadership defined • Collaborative organizational maturity • Four steps for collaborative leadership in your organization

Your Definition of Collaborative Leadership

Collaborative Leadership Compete • To strive consciously or unconsciously for an objective • Be in a state of rivalry

Collaborative Leadership Cooperate • To act or work with another or others • Act together or in compliance • To associate with another or others for mutual benefit

Collaborative Leadership Collaboration • To work jointly with others • To cooperate with an agency or instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected

Collaborative Leadership Collective • Denoting a number of persons or things considered as one group or whole

Collaborative Leadership Leadership • Leadership is the ability to move a group of people through non-coercive means to an end that is in the long term best interest of everyone.

Collaborative networks collectively responding to immediate and long-term individual and community needs Combined vertically integrated specialties Specialized service offering based on public safety or community health Need driven individual responses

Collaborative Leadership Why does it matter? “We have only had one family violence related homicide in the last 5 years. The NFJC has decreased homicides. And it is easier for victims to get help.” Nampa Family Justice Center

Collaborative Leadership Why does it matter? “There’s so much available and I cannot say how wonderful it is to have those resources when you think you have nothing. When you think you have nowhere to go, nobody to support you, nobody to hold your hand in court. Whatever it is you need just to answer a few questions, um, anything, anytime they were here for me. Every single person made a huge difference.” Nampa Family Justice Center

Collaborative Leadership How do you do it? • Refine your philosophy • Build your capability • Practice intentionally • Measure success

1. Refine Your Philosophy Collaborative leadership means… • Following your heart • Doing what’s right • Being organic • Never finishing • Dealing with ambiguity • Empowering others • Staying flexible • Fostering relationships • Letting of go of power and control • Constantly change

1. Refine Your Philosophy Collaborative Leadership is… • Exhausting • Constant juggling • A hamster cage

2. Build Your Capability Collaborative leadership means… • Self awareness • Clarity • Unity • Action • Communication

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3. Practice Intentionally Practice creates an environment where… • NFJC clients were most commonly referred there by the police. • Clients were aware of both specific services offered as well as a broader array of service or resource referral options at the NFJC. Nampa Family Justice Center

3. Practice Intentionally Practice creates an environment where… • Clients reported relatively easy access to professional counseling services at the NFJC. Nampa Family Justice Center

3. Practice Intentionally Practice creates an environment where… • The great majority of clients reported that since receiving services at the NFJC, their level of domestic violence had decreased or stopped and their overall well-being had improved. Nampa Family Justice Center

4. Measure for Success Nampa Family Justice Center’s Successes… • During the study period, 80% of non-arrest cases were referred for prosecution compared to 48% in 2008. • 52% of clients at NFJC reported their assault to police, which is higher than the national average.

4. Measure for Success Nampa Family Justice Center’s Successes… • 85% of reported cases were referred for prosecution, including 86% of cases involving arrests and 80% of cases where the offender was not arrested. • Domestic battery reports increased from 23% in 2008 to 41% in 2010. • In 2008, 57% of referred cases involved no visible physical injuries, but increases to 72% in 2010.

4. Measure for Success Nampa Family Justice Center’s Successes… • 93% of cases referred for prosecution by the police were actually charged. • The percentage of cases dismissed by the prosecutor decreased from 32% in 2008 to 15% in 2010.

4. Measure for Success

Outcomes data suggest that the goals of offender accountability and public safety are being better realized than they were just two years prior.

Collaborative Leadership Rebecca Lovelace Nampa Family Justice Center Phil Eastman II Leadership Advisors Group

Collaborative Leadership