Kossler / Prestridge Leading Dispersed Teams

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-15525-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 36 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)

This is a book about leading dispersed teams--teams that aremade up of people who don't work in the same geographicalarea. Such teams don't often meet face-to-face. Usually theirmembers are separated by time and distance, and they often bringdifferent cultural views to bear on their work. Solving potentialcommunication problems and devising processes for making decisionsand managing conflict are challenges for leaders of dispersedteams. But before they can address those challenges, they need toanalyze the support such a team will get from the organization as awhole.
Dispersed teams are a necessary, strategic work unit in a worldthat continues to grow more interconnected every day. Guiding themto their full potential is a difficult challenge for even the mostseasoned team leader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kossler, Michael E.

Prestridge, Sonya

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7 What Is a Dispersed Team?
7 Act Global, Think Local
Leadership That Exploits Advantages
Leadership That Mitigates Disadvantages
12 Launching a Dispersed Team
Assessing Readiness
Meeting for the First Time
22 Leading a Dispersed Team
Communication and Information Sharing
Decision Making
Conflict Resolution
27 Dispersed Teams: Leadership Challenges for anInterconnected World
29 Suggested Readings
30 Background
30 Key Point Summary

Über Autor(innen)

This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that theCenter for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, sinceits inception in 1970, through its research and educationalactivity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands ofmanagers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a waythat is distinct from the typical university department,professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply acollection of individual experts, although the individualcredentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community,with its members holding certain principles in common and workingtogether to understand and generate practical responses to today'sleadership and organizational challenges.
The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specificadvice on how to complete a developmental task or solve aleadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL'smission to advance the understanding, practice, and development ofleadership for the benefit of society worldwide.
Michael E. Kossler is a senior enterprise associate atCCL's Greensboro campus. He works with new global clients toassess their organizations' leadership development needs andthen to design and implement custom solutions. He served as theproject manager for CCL's research on geographicallydispersed teams. Mike holds an M.A. in communications from theUniversity of Akron and an M.M. in organizational development fromAquinas College.
Sonya Prestridge is a former senior program associate atCCL's Greensboro campus. She was a member of CCL'sresearch team investigating geographically dispersed teams. Sonyaholds an M.A. from Peabody College and a Ph.D. in adult educationfrom the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.