Applications

Collegial Leadership — applied flexibly

Not every organisation needs a complete transformation. Collegial Leadership can be introduced step by step — from individual teams to the entire company.

Initial Orientation

Does Collegial Leadership fit your organisation?

Not every company needs Collegial Leadership as a complete leadership system. These three questions provide an initial orientation.

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Do you have the power to influence the organisational framework?

As a team leader, CEO, or co-founder directly. Or through your influence on the relevant people in the organisation.

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Are you operating in a complex market environment?

A highly standardised production environment has different requirements than an innovative development area. Complexity favours Collegial Leadership.

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Do you already have a culture of personal responsibility?

Collegial Leadership requires a high degree of self-responsibility. In tightly managed organisations, this is often less developed than in trust-based cultures.

No yes or noThese questions are not a test, but a prompt for reflection. More on the foundations of Collegial Leadership can be found on the overview page.
What is Collegial Leadership?
Application 1

Organise a team self-led

As a leader, you always have the opportunity to shape your own area of responsibility. Collegial Leadership often starts small.

With our digital learning offerings, you will learn how to approach this best. We are also happy to support you personally.

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You formally lead a team and are looking for ways to shape the leadership work together.
You have already distributed leadership responsibilities and are now looking for ways to share them fully with the team.
You want to establish a project team or high-performance team that requires a high degree of autonomy.
Application 2

Organise a department or entire division self-led

The core principle of Collegial Leadership is to organise leadership work along the value chain. Cross-team changes require the involvement of the entire organisation.

Divisions with high complexity — such as product development or DevOps — are often held back by traditional leadership structures.

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More on Agile Organisational Development
Agile development division
Product development and innovation require decentralised decision-making structures.
DevOps unit
Fast iterations and clear accountability without hierarchical bottlenecks.
Independent business unit
A complete division with its own value chain is organised self-led.
Application 3

Organise the executive board as a leadership circle

As members of an executive board, you want to increase the effectiveness of your work. You are looking for a deeper change than simply introducing agile tools.

In our experience, establishing an executive board as a leadership circle is highly effective within a line-managed organisation.

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To the assessment
You don’t always pull in the same direction, but act primarily from your respective CxO role.
As a board, you feel paralysed, blocked, or stuck.
You have decided to move towards a collegially led company and want to get to know the tools yourselves first.
Case study
How Netstream AG benefited from this is shown in a concrete experience report from practice.
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Application 4

Full transformation to a collegially led company

Since 2016, we have accompanied the highly individual transformation process of three organisations and developed our own approach from this: the agile learning organisation (ALO).

This encompasses the structures and tools of Collegial Leadership, while also taking into account the individual development of people and the strategic direction of the organisation.

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Individual development of people
Transformation starts with people. Mindset, personal responsibility, and a feedback culture are the foundation.
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Introducing structures and tools
Circle structures, role clarification, and decision-making processes are introduced and adapted step by step.
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Strategic direction
Vision, mission, and strategy are developed and embedded together with employees.