VISION
AND MISSION
The Center for Collaborative
Command and Leadership (CCCL) serves as the pivot for
national and international training, practice, and research in
collaborative interactions among leaders and teams of leaders in
business, health care, administration, and governmental affairs. The
primary goal of CCCL's activities is to improve organizational
efficiency and efficacy of complex operations through collaboration
based on actionable understanding™ and the
Teams of Leaders (ToL) concept.
The Center
is engaged in the
scientific study, implementation, and practice of ToL-based
collaborative leadership and command in both “steady state” operations
and in turbulent settings of crises and disasters. CCCL focuses on:
- ToL-based development of
fully collaborating High Performing Leader Teams (HPLTs) tasked with
addressing improvement of organizational efficiency and agility during
steady-state operations in complex environments.
- ToL-based development of
Collaborative Command Leader Teams™ tasked with the development of
organizational intent and support of collaborative execution of
intent-based activities of the organization.
- ToL-based management of
organizational change.
- Establishment of
collaborating intra- and inter-organizational High Performing Leader
Teams focused on ToL-based development of crisis and
disaster-preparedness, response readiness, and recovery.
- ToL training and education.
- Research in ToL and
ToL-related practices and innovation in collaborative HPLT interactions.
Depending on their target,
all activities of the Centre can be performed at the local, regional,
national and international setting in co-located, distributed, and
mixed delivery setting.
THE
ESSENCE OF ToL
Teams of Leaders (ToL) method
is a novel and unique approach to the rapid building and operational
employment of cross-boundary High Performing Leader Teams (HPLTs) that
adapt together, learn together, make decisions together, and execute
them together.
Individual HPLTs interacting
within the ToL environment consist of already recognized leaders
representing a wide range of, often, entirely unrelated organizations
charged with the application of their expertise, experience, and
resources – often of their entire organizations – to address a specific
task of joint interest or significance. Collaborative Command
Leader Teams™ consist of senior/executive level leaders whose
principal task is formulation of the strategic organizational intent,
mission definition and facilitation of mission execution and
coordination across the entire operational spectrum of the
organization. Command Leader teams collaborate but do not
supervise HPLTs engaged in mission execution. Practically implemented,
ToL promotes growth of shared purpose, trust and confidence among the
collaborating individuals and teams – the attributes that are the
foundation for the subsequent development of a clear, shared perception
of the operational environment (situational awareness) and all of its
requirements.
The final output of all of
these interactions – actionable
understanding™ – represents an operational state that
binds all interacting teams together into collaborative and
collaborating entities capable of unimpeded performance that
is highly coordinated, purposeful, and consistently mission-focused.
Modern information technology
such as decision support, social networking, simulation, geographic
information systems, and logistical support applications play a
critical role in enabling High Performing Leader Teams to implement
actionable understanding faster, more efficiently, and guarantee “time
= 0; distance = 0” parameters of execution of actionable understanding
across global distances and multiple time zones.
SERVICES
DELIVERY OF EXPERTISE
The services of the Center
focus on three areas: exploration, education, and delivery of expertise
on all issues related to ToL-based collaborative leadership at the
local, national and global level. The Center provides
on-demand expertise to all governmental, corporate, and private
institutions involved in activities demanding high levels of
collaboration across boundaries of profession, organization, culture,
and nationality. Services are offered both under conditions of
day-to-day, routine operations, and on emergency basis, during “time is
of the essence” crises/disasters.
Depending on the circumstances
and the nature of the task in which the Center is involved, it can
provide both in-house and deployable expertise targeted on the
accelerated development of actionable understanding among all
participating actors, and - through the implementation of such
understanding – on the improvement of organizational efficiency and
productivity.
Through implementation of ToL
at client organizations, the Center can facilitate the process of
change and limit the turbulence that often accompanies major shifts of
the organizational profile of operations. ToL-mediated processes reduce
inherent and often detrimental tensions and uncertainties among the
involved parties, help to introduce new processes and activities in a
manner that eliminates friction, and enhance the spirit of
organizational innovation which promotes improved responsiveness to
market, regulatory, or political pressure.
When involved in crisis-related
situations, activities of the Center focus on ToL-based reduction of
the most immediate consequences of the deleterious event, and the
development of the most optimal paths toward full and speedy recovery
of normal, steady-state operations.
As a part of all of its
activities, the Center assists in the development of organizational
adaptability, resilience to sudden changes in business environment, and
on facilitation of collaborative interactions that enhance immediate
responses to harmful contingencies.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Education of
the new generation of leaders endowed with a thorough familiarity of
the theory and practice of the Teams of Leaders (ToL) concept serves as
a focusing element in the Center’s mission. ToL-based
education/training activities focus on the senior and mid-level
executive personnel of federal, state, and local governments, and
non-governmental (NGOs) and corporate organizations. Several of
these activities are simulation-based in which “free-play” scenarios
are used as the training substrate.Highly complex, advanced technology
training platforms capable of providing globally distributed virtual
reality (VR) and augmented-VR training environments are under current
development by CCCL and its US, Canadian and French partners.
The Center provides both
in-house ToL teaching/ training coaches and similar programs to its
clients who wish to support their own development of
intra-institutional ToL programs. Finally, as part of the mission of
the Center, appropriate training courses can be incorporated into
certificate, master- and doctoral-degree programs operated by both
affiliated universities.
RESEARCH
The Center investigates
the significance and impact of
collaborative leadership on operations performed in complex
settings of healthcare, business, research, etc. The Center evaluates
the utility of such efforts, the role of collaboration as the promoter
of efficiency and effectiveness of task executions in specific
settings. The results of studies conducted by the Center’s research
personnel are disseminated through publications, workshops, symposia,
and conferences, and also through collaboration with the media and
professional/trade organizations.
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