Cooperative Leadership Certification
Advanced Students Program
Cooperative Leaders! The Advanced Students Program has been designed for you. The Advanced Students Program is for you if you’re seeking the community space to deepen your practice of facilitating collaboration in your team.
This program is focused on supporting your understanding and capacity to meet your team with Collab’s process tools, tactics, and skills to support bringing more transparency, clarity, and experimentation in how you collaborate.
This is your implementation space! Let’s work through what’s challenging about getting accountability, facilitating consent, clarifying roles and power, and other aspects of cooperation.
You’ll receive a plethora of essential tools to implement shared leadership and management practices for alignment around your team’s daily operations and decisions along with honing your group’s collective purpose and values.
First month of the program is FREE.Â
As you learned in our Level I training, we’ve spent years researching the problems and potentials associated with organizational communication and collaborative leadership and synthesized and condensed what we’ve learned into a set of shared leadership practices, Collab, that support you in bringing flow, harmony, ease, and continual improvement to your organization.
The Advanced Students Program builds on what you learned in Level I to help you expand your collaborative leadership capacity by supporting you in putting the practices into action with your team(s) and building on your knowledge of the other conversations including:
- How to collaboratively develop a purpose, an organization’s vision, mission, and values
- What business model consists of and how to evolve or improve it, including embedding open book management in your organization
- How to develop a strategic plan that gets enacted
- What to do with conflict management both in the moment and in terms of prevention
- How integrating personal development including performance reviews can transform your organizational culture
But this isn’t just about the tools. To be a collaborative leader, you must have a deep understanding of how to meet people where they are and bring your team together. You must practice presence and active listening, develop your problem-solving skills, and understand that when one member of the team has a problem, the team has a problem.
The Implementor tier is for those of you seeking our Level II certification.
 What you'll learn:Â
- Dive deeper into facilitating tension processing
- Understand and facilitate objections in integrative consent
- Clarify roles and accountabilities
- Adjust your organization’s structure cooperatively
- Integrate ops reports and project management
- Implement and teach the Standard Meeting Practice for a diverse range of contexts
- Develop or/and update your group’s vision, mission, and values
- Identify or evolve your organization’s business model including understanding your constituents/clients/customers’ needs and your value proposition for them
- Integrate open book management into your organization
- Develop an adaptive strategy and strategic plan and embed that throughout your organization
- Resolve interpersonal conflict in the moment and over time
- Conduct performance reviews that have an impact
- Establish a culture and practice of personal development
Benefits:
- Confidence to teach participatory processes to get clear, process-driven results
- Harness the power of distributed and agile governance in building a strong resilient team of collaborators
- Tools for more efficient meetings with clear decisions and next steps
- Deepening your connection to the Collab Community of Practitioners
- Over the course, you’ll build and grow alongside other collaborative leaders to explore theory, build community, organize projects, and align purpose with practice.
- The community of cooperative leaders you’ll meet can offer you support and feedback for your work, and you’ll also get to hear their ideas and strategies for details like funding, structure, and legal concerns in addition to our own.
- Optional: use Collab as a certified professional to benefit the organizations you work with!
- First month of the program is FREE.
What you need to know:
60 minute weekly learning sessions conducted remotely on Wednesdays from 1-2 PM ET. We include the following kinds of structured conversations:
- Instruction and training: information and discussion
- Skills labs facilitation practice with coaching
- Peer support around specific challenges
- Community of Practice Call: questions and dialogue with instructors and occasional guest presenters
Forums to engage with peers and instructors about your challenges, the course content, and assignments
Advanced online learning portal with unlimited access to content including videos on all of the 7 conversations
One-on-one coaching sessions to dig into your specific situation, needs, and challenges
The option to continue and complete your Collab Certification through the Implementer tier!
First month of the program is FREE.
Course Details:Â
The Advanced Students Program is a continuous learning program, conducted remotely. You are welcome to register at any time, and we also have cohorts that run for the Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer.Â
The first month of the program is FREE.
How much does the Advanced Students Program Cost?
There is so much wisdom in the Collab system, and the ability to bring all of the techniques and practices into my daily work and my team has made possible much of the change I’ve been able to accomplish in the past year. The best part [of Level II] is the way that after all of their resistance, my team is now embracing the Standard Meeting Practice, ops tracking, and even Personal Development as valuable tools to self-manage through executive transition.
Carolyn Edsell-Vetter
Cooperative Business Support & Outreach Officer, Cooperative Fund of New England
I would say the most important practical piece has been watching these processes, conversations, and ways of thinking come alive in me. I could feel my perception and ability to adapt to different tensions expanding as we worked with this material together.
Level 2 Graduate
