Collaborative Approach: A need for Educational Institution

Collaborative Approach is more about being compassionate and empathetic towards one another. In this approach, a leader doesn’t raise their voice against one another; also not one voice dominates the system but relies more on shared purpose. It means that everyone feels connected and valued. It's more of a process rather than a performance. It helps in the collaborative process work focusing a team involved towards something - to a particular decision that supports achieving a common goal.

Let's take the example of IDEO, a global designing, and innovation company that has established itself and is a clear example of work through collaboration, innovation, and creativity at the same time. It is highly viable in educational institutions; a successful example of IDEO through collaboration is STEM in education. It motivates young minds towards critical thinking and helps to foster their creativity.

An educational organization cannot be run one-handedly, especially for progressive educators it's very important to align with 21st-century skills. One of which is collaboration. It is highly guided by Nelson Mandela's approach of leading from behind. The main idea of collaboration is to complete a task together with a team.

Innovation is one of the important traits of collaborative leadership. The examples of IDEO/Mass studio which made the successful use have already proven it.

                                             Collective genius: An educational institution requires and deals with different departments for the better delivery of education. So here it means that there are various leaders assigned in different areas such as Academic, Administrative, and ECAs which are led by different leaders but they collectively work together for a common purpose. They all work in different departments for better achievement in students' holistic development. So it's obvious the department head are the experts in their own areas whereas they can give very valuable input to the other colleague forming a good team.

        Web of relationship: It helps to create the web of relationships in an organization by interconnecting everyone. They work collaboratively with their respective team members but align with the same mission. The interdependence, equal framework of rules, visible idea sharing, developing shared vision and purpose, taking the risk, and learning from failures further help in team strengthening of the employees by creating a web of relationships.

Collaboration is a great tool for teamwork, highly useful for the generation of emergent and novel outcomes where the work and process of achieving the goal result in unique and with special outcomes.