Intro -- What Is a Dispersed Team? -- Act Global, Think Local -- Leadership That Exploits Advantages -- Leadership That Mitigates Disadvantages -- Launching a Dispersed Team -- Assessing Readiness -- Meeting for the First Time -- Leading a Dispersed Team -- Communication and Information Sharing...

Intro -- The Right Start Is Critical to Success -- Launching a Successful Team -- Setting Purpose and Direction -- Defining Roles and Responsibilities -- Designing Procedures and Practices -- Building Cooperation and Relationships -- Countdown to Team Success -- Suggested Readings -- Background...

Intro -- Why You Need a Vision -- What a Vision Is -- The Leader's Role -- Examples of Communicating a Vision -- Meeting Resistance -- Last Words -- Suggested Readings -- Background -- Key Point Summary.

Intro -- Leading with Critical Reflections -- First Things First -- Identify the Key Event -- Allocate Time and Space -- Prepare to Orient Your Group -- The Basic Process -- Exploring -- Reflecting -- Projecting -- Advanced Options -- Activities for Exploring -- Activities for Reflecting --...

Intro -- First Things First -- Values, Motivation, and Priorities -- Your Organizational Context -- Trade-offs and Consequences -- Competing Priorities -- Organizational Measures of Performance -- Working Together for Results -- Suggested Readings -- Background -- Key Point Summary.

Intro -- Listening and Leadership -- The Active Listening Skill Set -- Barriers to Active Listening -- How to Improve Your Listening Skills -- Leading with Active Listening -- Background -- Suggested Resources.

Intro -- Self-Promotion: A Leader's Job -- Strategic Visibility and Its Benefits -- Benefits for the Individual -- Benefits for Others -- Rethinking Self-Promotion -- Techniques for Promoting Yourself -- Connecting with Others -- Developing Yourself -- Creating Opportunities -- Finding the Sweet...

Intro -- Teams - Fast Track or Trendy Trap? -- How Teams Work -- Teams Are Good for Complex Tasks -- Teams Are Good for Innovation -- The Way We Work -- Individual -- Workgroup -- Collaborative Workgroup -- Team -- High-performance Team -- If You Need a Team, You Need Support -- Assessing Your...

Intro -- Why Prepare for a Leadership Development Program? -- Preparing Your Expectations -- Preparing Your Motivation -- Preparing Your Workplace -- Turning Lessons into Leadership -- Suggested Readings -- Background -- Key Point Summary.