Co-leadership Flashcards
List the 7 benefits of co-leadership
1) Better group coverage
2) Combined skills set
3) Increased diversity
4) Shared responsibility and resources
5) mutual support and feedback
6) More opportunity for role-play and tole-model to group members
7) Provision of training and mentoring opportunities
Advantages to co-leadership:
Define group coverage
the leaders’s ability to monitor group members behaviour and engagement in group.
Advantages to co-leadership:
How does increased diversity benefit a group?
Increased diversity of the leaders can help increase COMPATIBILITY and rapport with a wider range of group members
List the 6 disadvantages of co-leadership
1) Competitive temptations can arise
2) Risk of splitting the group (where some group members favour one leader over the others)
3) Dominance relationship can happen if one leader wants more authority
4) Problems with unequal pacing (which makes time management issues)
5) lack or breach or trust can cause problems
6) diverse leaders can also cause difficulty in keeping consistent content and process in groupwork
List the 12 pieces of advice for successful co-leadership
1) Time to get to know each other prior to working with the group
2) Consistently portray an egalitarian co-leadership relationship to the group
3) make shared responsibilities and decision-making a focus
4) seek co-leaders with compatible values and theoretical orientation
5) Build collaborative yet frank (honest/open) relationships
6) Make time and energy towards working together before AND after group sessions
7) Clearly understand each others statuses and roles
8) Use effective and appropriate communication skills
9) Use effective post decision debriefing
10) Share honest recognition of each others strengths and room for improvement regularly
11) Be aware of competitive temptations and be open to talk about it
12) Resolve issues in an appropriate way. Tell supervisor or directly with team leaders
