Introductory / concluding presentation slides supporting colab workshop at HRD Summit Birmingham UK February 2020

1. HRD Summit February 2020
CoLab: Social Leadership
Jon Ingham, Author, Trainer and Consultant
The Social Organization
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2. Jon Ingham
• HRD Connect thought leader
with a focus on strategic, artful
and social HR / OD
• Co-author with Dave Ulrich on
building better HR departments
and creator of the new Melded
Network HR model
• Author of ‘The Social
Organization’ with a growing
interest in social leadership
(next book?)
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3. Problems in Leadership
Why is the Leadership Industry Failing?
(And How to Fix It)
Gordy Curphy, Robert B. Kaiser and
Robert Hogan
Adam Galinsky, the E test
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_galinsky_
how_to_speak_up_for_yourself/transcript
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4. Social Leadership
Julian Stodd, The Social Leadership Handbook Edgar and Peter Schein, Humble Leadership
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5. Social Leadership in the Digital Age
MIT Sloan Management Review, The New Leadership Playbook for the Digital Age, 2020
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6. Harnessing Human Creativity
Supply
• Increasingly specialist to
stay current given
increased knowledge
available and rate of its
development
• Ideally ‘T’ shaped
professionals with
multiple specialisms and
breadth of focus plus
great soft skills
Demand
• Complex, cross-
disciplinary needs
requiring specialists to
work together in groups
and networks
• Relationship workers vs
just knowledge workers
• Social leadership =
leading groups and
networks vs just
individuals
https://www.hrdconnect.com/2020/01/07/2020-hrd-thought-leaders-
on-the-biggest-trends-of-of-the-year-to-come/
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7. Types of Group / Network
(Functions) (Horizontal / Project Teams
and Communities)
(Networks)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/organising-people-through-distributed-networks-jon-ingham/
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8. Communities Networks
Functions
Project
Teams
Task focus,
Extrinsic
motivation
Human focus,
Intrinsic
motivation
Internal orientation External orientation
Types of Group / Network
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/choosing-organisation-forms-groups-jon-ingham/
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9. Eg Future HR Organisation
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/melded-network-hr-model-magazine-different-slant-jon-ingham
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10. Functions
• Groupings of people co-ordinating their work with
others at same level working for the same manager
• Working in series rather than parallel – Peter Drucker:
“‘they play on the team, they do not play as a team”
• Leading functions = leading individuals (groupings not
real teams, eg they do not need team meetings)
• Main requirements are trust and psychological safety
https://www.hrdconnect.com/2020/01/15/does-your-functional-group-really-need-a-meeting/
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11. Project Teams
• Leading teams = focusing on the team outputs
• Ensuring individuals are motivated to help the team
• Balancing team and individual focus
• Note increasing use of self managed teams
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver outputs
• Includes process, project, agile and product teams
• Increasing projectisation in many areas of work
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-vertically-focused-functions-horizontal-cross-teams-jon-ingham/
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12. Communities
• Small groups with passion for a domain
• Cultivation of relationships across members who may
decide to work together
• Opportunity for ‘communities of performance’
• Leading communities = focusing on the people and the
community, facilitating connection
• Henry Mintzberg ‘Communityship’: being personally
engaged in order to engage others, so that anyone and
everyone can exercise initiative.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/communities-performance-jon-ingham/
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13. Networks
• Individuals linked by a common technological /
cultural platform who may decide to co-operate
together around a particular domain
• Great for sharing information - harder, but not
impossible, to produce outputs
• Leading networks = encouraging curiosity and desire to
co-operate (eg by working out loud)
• Brokering connections between network members and
with other networks
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/networks-performance-jon-ingham/
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14. CoLab
… on Teams … on Communities … on Networks
As a Team on… Teams 1, 4, 5 Team 2 Team 3
As a Community
on…
Community 1 Community 2, 4, 5 Community 3
As a Network on… Network 1 Network 2 Network 3, 4, 5
Nine different types of working group:
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Different
experiences
Different
insights

15. CoLab Feedback:
- Ideas about Leading Teams / Communities /
Networks?
- Experience working as a Team / Community /
Network?
Additional Question:
- What will Happen when People are Leading
Teams, Communities and Networks?
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16. Leadership Across Contexts
Communities
Networks
Projects
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17. So Six Challenges?:
• Leading using social technologies
• Leading in a humble, networked (colab-ed) way
• Leading groups rather than just individuals
• Leading teams, communities and networks differently
• Everyone participating in leadership
• Applying different leadership styles to different groups
and situations at the same time
How will theses challenges impact your organisation,
leadership development and HR activities?
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18. For More Information / To Discuss:
• About me: joningham.com
• “Strategic HCM”: strategic-hcm.com / strategic-
hcm.blogspot.com
• “The Social Organisation”: organization.social /
koganpage.com/SocialOrganization
• Social media: linkedin.com/in/joningham,
twitter.com/joningham
• Email: jon@joningham.com, phone: 07904 185134
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