Boundary Spanning Leadership
Increase collaboration, tear down organizational silos, and mitigate turf wars to increase productivity, efficiency, and innovation.
We live in a world of vast collaborative potential. Yet, when times are tough, our natural tendency is to hunker down. All too often, we focus on what divides us.
Battle lines are drawn. Organizational silos get taller. Worldviews shrink, attitudes narrow, and positions tighten. Without meaning to, we find ourselves separated by the natural boundaries of most organizations.
Boundary Spanning Leadership Enables Breaking Down Silos
By definition, boundary spanning is when leaders can work with a wide variety of others of differing positions, backgrounds, and locations. The most effective leaders are successful at spanning 5 common organizational boundaries, whether among peers (horizontal boundaries); between levels of the org chart (vertical boundaries); with external groups like customers or the supply chain (stakeholder boundaries); across age, gender, culture, ideology, etc. (demographic boundaries); and across locations (geographic boundaries). That’s why boundary spanning is the key to breaking down silos at your organization and pushing it forward into the future.
To transform these borders into innovative frontiers in today’s global, multi-stakeholder organizations, focus on the following on boundary spanning practices:
Program Outcomes
By attending this program, participants will:
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Case Studies
Awards and Recognition
Brandon Hall Gold Award for ‘Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging in Communities’, 2024
Brandon Hall Gold Award for 'Best Initiative for Philanthropy and Corporate Giving', 2023
Brandon Hall Silver Award for 'Best Corporate Outreach to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Communities', 2023
Excellence in the 'Women Empowerment' category at the '11th World CSR Congress & Awards 2022'
Excellence in the 'Efforts towards building an inclusive world' category at the '11th World CSR Congress & Awards 2022'
Innovations in CSR Practices Award for 'Digital Skills Program‘, 2021
Best Corporate Foundation Award for 'Skill Development Program', 2019
Brandon Hall Gold Award for 'Best Advance in Social Impact Innovation', 2021
