Roundtable 2025
While there are leaders who seek to divide and conquer, there are also many people who are looking for solutions to real problems, and deeply disturbed about threats to democracy and to our public sector.
How can we move beyond domination to solve the very real problems we face? Mary Parker Follett advocated for constructive conflict — understanding each other's “full field of desires” to reach integrative solutions. But she also cautioned that integration is not possible when either party’s primary goal—ours included—is to dominate. How can relational coordination and relational leadership help us as leaders, policy makers, researchers and consultants to find integrative solutions to the complex problems we face? How can we recognize when integration is not possible?
Save the date for the Relational Coordination Collaborative’s 15th Annual Roundtable where we will grapple with these timely questions. We will gather in Boston on November 6-8th, starting with Welcoming Activities and ending with a Closing Celebration. Suffolk University will host the community once again in the heart of Boston. Stay posted for the Call for Abstracts, with submissions due in early June.
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What is the Roundtable?
The Roundtable is the keystone event of the Relational Coordination Collaborative. It is a highly interactive annual event that brings colleagues and friends together to share their work and learn from each other, through interactive presentations, keynote speakers, professional development workshops, and informal engagement that help participants develop their knowledge and networks, and move their knowledge into action. The Roundtable is hosted each Fall in different locations for colleagues to submit their work to a peer-reviewed process, then share their work. It is an event to build new relationships and renew existing ones.
Relational Coordination Is...
Relational coordination is a mutually reinforcing process of communicating and relating for the purpose of task integration. Relational coordination is shaped by organizational structures and, when strong, it supports organizations in achieving a wide range of desired performance outcomes including quality, safety, efficiency, financial outcomes, well-being, learning and innovation. Relational coordination is particularly important for achieving these outcomes when work is highly interdependent, uncertain and time constrained, whether in times of crisis or everyday stress.
Relational coordination is measured as a network of ties across roles in any work process that requires coordination. Its outcomes and predictors have been tested in 73 industry sectors and 36 countries. See Revisiting Relational Coordination: A Systematic Review.
What is the RCC?
RCC's mission is to connect researchers and practitioners from around the US and around the world to develop and test relational models of coordination, leadership and change. We were founded at Brandeis University in 2011 by Professor Jody Hoffer Gittell, in partnership with students and colleagues at Brandeis and around the world.
