Collective Leadership and Its Contribution to Community Resiliency in Salinas, Ecuador

Glocal Evaluation Competencies for Learning As We Go: Zooming in and zooming out to connect system-level solutions to local beneficiaries

“…Evaluators who wish to establish a Learning as We Go practice need to build a shared leadership team with program or organizational stakeholders. This form of leadership is often referred to as collective leadership (Cullen-Lester & Yammarino, 2016;Rowe et al, 2023). It involves respective parties coordinating and sharing mutually beneficial roles to attain overarching goals (De Brún & McAuliffe, 2020), equality of power (Campus et al, 2021), a network of relationships and roles for the exchange of information (Friedrich et al, 2009), and use of dialogic processes among all interested parties to make decisions (Raelin, 2018).…”

“…The evaluator-organizational leader relationship is cooperative and learning focused, each party alternating between leadership and followership. These evaluative environments are characteristics of collective leadership where roles of the evaluator, program decision makers, and other leaders overlap and evolve in a collaborative fashion to accomplish the goals of the program (Rowe et al, 2023). Illustrative of these dynamic and collaborative collective leadership environments are the program monitoring and feedback systems to learn what is working and not working.…”