THE THEORY OF SHARED

LEADERSHIP
JERAMIE S.
LDAICA BSA-4
 In environment where leadership is distributed among team
members rather than being held by a single designated team
leader.

 Is about empowering people to take leadership positions in

their areas of expertise and moving outside of more formalised
structures that can inhibit shared contribution.
four essential qualities of shared leadership
1. Shared purpose. This includes team members knowing what the
primary objectives are but expands far beyond that. What are the
collective team goals? What are we solving for? What are we
agreeing will be our team experience?

2. Social Support. Often, a good team leader is seen as someone who

encourages, recognizes, and lifts up the accomplishments of
others
3. Mutual accountability. It means that everyone shares in the
victories, and everyone shares in working through challenges.

4. Voice. It is represented by participation and input. It is really

the degree to which a team member has the ability to influence
how a team carries out its purpose. This can include participation
in decision making and constructive discussion, or debate around
alternative approaches to team goals, tasks, and procedures
• As a team leader, you can create an environment where people
engage in shared leadership by being committed to and feeling
responsibility for accomplishing the team’s collective goals. This
gives people a greater sense of meaning and increased motivation
for team members to share their voices and invest in providing
leadership to the team and responding to the leadership of others.
"participation is not a choice. We have no choice but to
invite people into the process of rethinking, redesigning,
restructuring the organization. We ignore people's need to
participate at our own peril. If they're involved, they will
create a future that already has them in it”

- Margaret Wheatley
QUESTIONS

IN YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING, WHAT IS SHARED

LEADERSHIP?

HOW IMPORTANT OF BEING A SHARED LEADERSHIP

IN THE ORGANIZATION?
THANK YOU!