1)Leadership through structure: -
-	The structure of a collaboration is taken to be the organizations and individuals associated with it and the structural inter-connections between them.Many collaborations appoint a member of one of the participating organizations to the individual positional leader role of the committee, board or group.There are participants who are acknowledged by others to have an authority to lead reference their position in the partnership structure (positional leaders)
-	Many types of positional leaders may be identified:
1)	A "lead organization" that can be the organization that convened the collaboration in the first place, or a "host organization" which houses the collaboration physically and administratively. Individuals within the "lead organization" enact leadership and gain greater authority to do so through working "on behalf of the lead" organization
2)	A management committee, board or steering group comprising individuals representing organizations associated with the collaboration.This position affects the facility for other group members to enact their leadership roles.