This workshop offers staff the opportunity to explore how leadership can be more effectively shared across teams, departments, and functions to support meaningful change. Grounded in real-world practice and research from the higher education context, the session introduces the principles of distributed leadership: valuing expertise over hierarchy, fostering trust and collaboration, and enabling individuals at all levels to take initiative. If you're interested in building leadership capacity, creating space for innovation, or developing more inclusive ways of working, this session explores all of these principles. 

This workshop relates to the following competencies outlined in the Competency Framework: “Collaboration” and” Leading others: sets the direction”. 

Learning outcomes:  

• Identify key principles and characteristics of distributed leadership 

• Analyse how distributed leadership fosters collaboration and improves team effectiveness. 

• Apply strategies to implement distributed leadership practices in diverse organisational contexts. 

• Evaluate the impact of distributed leadership on decision-making, innovation, and organisational outcomes. 

Please be aware that this workshop is a discussion-based session with pair and group exercises. You do not have to share anything you are not comfortable with but bear in mind you will be asked to reflect on your own experiences.