The Clover Model Of Collective Leadership
Innovative leadership through collaboration
The Clover Model of Collective Leadership
When Co-Founders, Morgan Riyami and Morgan Ridenhour sat down to think through the core elements of leadership development, they discovered a number of shared concerns with the leadership models they had been taught and the way these models were then delivered to clients. Together, they sorted through the decades of experience between the two of them to find a new model, one that would incorporate all that they had found to be true and trim out everything they had found to be ineffective, superfluous, or oversimplified. The pair tested their theories on herds of horses and clusters of people until they found something that fit, a model that was broad enough to accommodate any group and still clear enough to provide a practical pathway towards effective leadership and functional team culture.
From years of working with so many groups, the Morgans knew that leadership must start with Connection, the ultimate source of motivation for a social being. They found that a clear process of Communication is then essential to maintain connection and create the shared expectations that would allow a team to make any forward progress. To avoid the major pitfalls of isolation, stagnation, and burn-out, Collaboration is a critical step and skill, a core component of collective leadership that allows a team to capitalize on diversity. Finally, even in the closest of teams, conflict is unavoidable - the Morgans found that conflict is often a great source of anxiety but also that conflict is an opportunity for development. In order to navigate conflict in a way that strengthens bonds and creates progress, a leader and team require a final component of Conflict Management.
Once they had distilled and tested these four essential elements of leadership, the Morgans decided on a Clover to represent the model because they felt lucky to have found themselves aligned in a time of opportunity and knew that this luck was not a mysterious force, but a natural thing that could be cultivated and grown into something more.
SKILL
CONNECTION
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
QUALITY
COMMITMENT
RESILIENCE
MOTIVATION
INCLUSION
OUTCOME
CULTURE
PRODUCTIVITY
EFFICIENCY
DIVERSITY
Connection, Communication, Collaboration, Conflict Management
By exploring and applying these skills in a real-time experiential learning space, participants can identify individual strengths and challenges, acquire new techniques to solidify learning.
