With Circle of Hands collective leadership, people come together to mobilize human, cultural, and technological resources to improve their communities and country. It is an inclusive approach to leadership that crosses age, income, ethnic, religious, and cultural barriers while tasking individuals to commit to bidirectional learning, joint action, shared responsibility, and mutual accountability.

Collective leadership focuses on collaboration instead of individual change agents. Principles of Collective leadership: It is a relational approach where individuals assume leadership roles within a group while the entire group provides leadership within the community. This approach is transformational with a firm commitment to social justice. It also yields to specific situations and settings.

Stages of Collective Leadership

These are defined as: prepare, plan, perform, and perpetuate. The first stage will prepare and lay the foundation for all future work by building relationships within the community and managing the tasks associated with a new effort. The planning stage is the visioning process where we get youth leaders to define the goals and objectives and the methods for achieving the set goals. At the performance stage, work plans turn to reality. All these are perpetuated in the last stage for sustainable impact.

Collective Leadership Practices: with every step we take, our leaders focus on five practices:

1. Build youth partnerships
2. Mobilize the community
3. Recognize and harness individual talents
4. Build teamwork, and
5. Reflect and learn.

We have a series of resources in our Knowledge Fountain to help you understand our processes.