Leading Dispersed Teams

Leading a Dispersed Team

Effective teams have a clear purpose, an empowering team structure, strong organizational support, capable internal relationships, well-tended external relationships, and efficient information management. These characteristics are necessary for both local and dispersed teams. But even if you have extensive experience leading teams at the local level, taking on that responsibility for a dispersed team raises uniquely difficult challenges. Once a dispersed team is established, a leader who wants to ensure the team’s success needs to focus on three specific attributes of teamwork: communication and information sharing, decision ...