Verkostojohtajan roolit ja kompetenssit kolmannen sektorin johtajien näkökulmasta

Abstract

This article studies the competencies and skills that are seen important for a network leader in order to achieve trustworthy collaboration, us­ing collaborative leadership theory as a theoret­ical base. We follow a framework by Agranoff and McGuire (2001), who grouped network management behaviors in collaboration into four categories: activation, framing, mobilization, and synthesizing. The network leaders have distinctive roles in different phases of col­laboration: a visionary motivator, a community builder, a strategic stimulator, and a fair media­ tor. The qualitative data was collected through a survey of network leaders in Finnish social and healthcare nonprofit organizations.