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Karl-Johan Spiik

A group should work as a team, but one team member doesn't show up at meetings, another is doing all the work of the others, and nobody in the team dares to give critical feedback. Usually these problems are handled by a supervisor. What if the team worked as a community-led team, without a supervisor? 

Working in a community-led team challenges the team members to grow as people and to take responsibility for the whole group. The key word here is communication. 

This book presents the model of a community-led team, which can help a team to learn step by step to work without a supervisor, and to further develop the team's previous working methods. 

“With the help of this model, we started to understand what teamwork is about. We lacked many of the basics, and therefore we couldn't cooperate in a natural way around work tasks. By focusing on the right matters, we fixed the team's internal communication, and we are able to react quickly to changing situations.”
- Personnel of a start-up company

Henrik Andergård

Karlex

A Leadership Hacker's Chronicles of Community-Led Orientation

Community-Led Team : How to Create a Team That Leads Itself

Katariina Valtanen

Shared leadership is doing work together. 

In traditional leadership the focus is on looking for a culprit, whereas in modern leadership the focus is on looking for a solution to solve the problem. Leadership without blaming allows the employees to try out new ways, and the threshold to make decisions is lowered. With modern information technologies solutions are shared independent of time and place. The right use of tools combined with a helpful and permissive atmosphere create the prerequisites for sharing leadership. Leadership that is focused on one person is no longer necessary. 

This book combines agile leadership methods with the solution-focused nature of leadership that allows for failures. Pondering responsibility is an important part of leadership, but not from the point of view of the culprit but from that of the solution. In leadership it is important to let go of selfish needs of being right and shining. In this way it is possible to harness the synergies of all the employees for the benefit of the entire organization. Shared leadership speaks about modern leadership in a simple form.

Karlex Oy

Community-Led Leadership : How Shared Leadership Is Created and What Its Requirements Are

Kaarina Valtanen

Are you a network leader? Leading a network is a skill that is needed more and more in today's working life, but a previous position as a supervisor and years of experience do not guarantee anything in networks. A network is uncontrollable, it cannot be ordered around nor controlled, and every member of the network can influence its operations. If you want to realise your own will i.e. lead the network, you need to get the others to understand your point of view, entice people to cooperate, listen to others, and tolerate diversity and critique.

In a network you orientate everyone into a culture where you communicate efficiently as well as ask for and give feedback. In a network you cannot e.g. not inform others about how the project is coming along, or merely announce things after all the decisions have been made, but rather, all information should be open. On the other hand, openness does not mean the same as drowning people in information so that no one can keep up. The flow of information in a network needs good tools, and you need to be able to measure your success.

Leading a network is not easy, but it is rewarding. A network is support and safety, a source of learning and development, and a key to new opportunities and new collaborative partners. Your network might be quite like-minded with you, or it might consist of sharply differing people, but the most important thing is that you recognise people's differing motivations and needs.

This book gives tips and examples on how you can be a network leader who achieves results and a good spirit. If you want to develop as a network leader, this book is for you!

Maria Kesti

Community-Led Orientation : How to Control That Which Cannot Be Controlled: A Guide to Network Leadership

A Leadership Hacker's Chronicles of Community-Led Orientation

A Leadership Hacker's Chronicles of Community-Led Orientation

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