Table of Contents

Chapters include: Part I: The Foundations of Collaborative Leadership-Leading the Call 1. The Vision-Why Bother? 2. The Mirror-Where Are You? 3. What Is a Collaborative Leader? 4. Challenges To Collaborative Leadership Part II: Collaborative Leadership-The How To 5. The Collaborative Pathway-How Do We Get There? 6. Calling For and Inspiring Collaboration-Inviting Others 7. Choosing To Collaborate-Making the Decision 8. Creating a Culture of Collaboration-Collaboration Inside Out 9. Combining Differences For Synergy-Welcoming and Integrating 10. Integrating Self and Others-The Collaborative Quadrants 11. Believing In Collaboration 12 The Principles of Collaboration 13. The Bigger Game of Collaboration 14. The States of Collaboration 15. The Call To Be a Collaborative Leader Part III: Collaborative Leadership Challenges-There Be Dragons! 16. How Collaborations Can Go Wrong 17. Pseudo-Collaboration-The Talk Without the Walk 18. Collaboration In Crisis

About the Author

Ian McDermott specialises in giving people the skills to innovate their own collaborative leadership solutions. Much of his time is spent advising senior leaders worldwide and coaching the next generation to be innovative leaders. Ian is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter University Business School where his focus is on leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship. He is Dean of Innovation & Learning for the Purposeful Planning Institute in the US and his work is featured in the Open University's MBA course 'Creativity, Innovation and Change'. Ian is External Faculty at Henley Business School where he helped create the MSc. in Coaching and Behavioral Change. He is also a UKCP registered psychotherapist.Ian McDermott has pioneered Leadership and Innovation Coaching, has trained a generation of coaches, is a member of the Association for Coaching's Global Advisory Panel and is AC Global Ambassador for Innovation and Collaboration.Based in the UK and the US, he is an acknowledged thought leader. A published authority, he has authored and co-authored fifteen books on systems thinking, NLP and coaching. Titles include The Art of Systems Thinking, Principles of NLP and The Coaching Bible.Ian's primary focus is on delivering practical 'how-tos' to ensure that learning in leadership and change, innovation and collaboration really happen. That's why he set up International Teaching Seminars (ITS). 25+ years on ITS continues to pioneer the application of practical techniques which are grounded in sound neuroscience for individuals, teams and organizations. For details of consultancy, coaching and training: www.itsnlp.com