Collective Leadership in ECE Organizations: Unlocking Your Team’s Natural Gifts, by Cassandra O'Neill, M.A. and Monica Brinkerhoff, M.S.W.

Learn how you and your team can apply collective leadership to find solutions and reach your shared goals. What if the solutions to the biggest challenges facing you were living inside the hearts and minds of others. What if you had a magic wand and could unlock these secrets? Collective leadership is about changing the way we think about leadership from something you do alone to or for others, to something that you do with others. The benefits of adopting collective leadership include: better decisions, increased self-direction and motivation, shared responsibility, increased engagement and investment, and sustainability. Foundational to adopting collective leadership is building trust, navigating power and privilege, and addressing inequities in relationships throughout the ECE system. This session will cover the essential ingredients for collective leadership for early childhood practitioners, the relationship between individual and collective leadership, and how to get the benefits of collective leadership. The session will cover a framework for collective leadership for early childhood practitioners that includes 5 elements and 11 practices. Participants will: identify ways they are already developing collective leadership; learn about the neuroscience which supports conversations that build trust; and explore strategies for shared decision making, and rotating/sharing roles. In this session: • Reflect on the five elements of collective leadership for early childhood professionals; • explore practices to build trust and collective leadership within your team and organization; and • leave with new tools and ideas to apply immediately.   All sessions are 1.5 hours long, and include a brief announcement from our sponsor. 2:oo PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time. To ensure you receive confirmation and reminder emails, add [email protected] to your contacts list. If you do not receive your email confirmation, check your Spam or Junk mail folders in your email system. Can’t participate in our webinars at the appointed time? Never fear! All of the webinars are recorded. To view the recording, simply register now and you will receive an email with a link to the recording when it is ready to be viewed. You can still download the certificate by watching the recording to the end when the certificate link is announced and displayed on the screen. Only 1,000 people at one time can attend our webinars, but registration often tops 4,000. Only the first 1,000 people to click the link to attend the webinar will be able to get in. We start the webinars 30 minutes in advance of the start time. Arrive early to make sure you get in. Please be advised that you will only be eligible for the great door prizes if you participate in the live session. You can earn .2 CEUs for each webinar. The cost is $15 paid to University of Oklahoma online when you apply. Learn more here: Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from University of Oklahoma See the schedule of upcoming webinars.