Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - May 2007 Issue

May 2007

Meeting the Demand for Global Leaders

We can fly halfway around the world in a day and connect with people in any time zone with just a few keystrokes. For leaders, working globally is increasingly familiar -- and yet effective global leadership eludes many organizations. This issue of Leading Effectively is designed to help you and your organization become more effective working across distances and among different cultures.

This newsletter is adapted from CCL's Advancing Global Leadership program materials and book Leading Dispersed Teams by Michael E. Kossler and Sonya Prestridge (CCL, 2004).

Articles

Global Leaders: The Reality of Multiple Complexities
Global leadership is complicated, requiring leaders to operate amid myriad challenges. (more...)

Leading From a Distance
Becoming a high-performing team is a challenge in any circumstance. But when team members are scattered geographically and separated culturally, the task is even greater. Even so, team leaders and members can take action to steer their dispersed teams in a positive direction. (more...)

A Big Balancing Act: Local Vs. Global
A corporate vice-president and a regional director of sales are at odds. Both consider the other to be a savvy leader with solid business acumen. What's going on? Chances are the problem is tied to the tension between global and local expectations. (more...)

A Global Leader's Guide to Navigating Culture
Is a good leader in Mexico City the same as a good leader in Brussels, Cairo or Manila? "Leadership is, to some extent, a culturally dependent skill," says CCL's Mike Kossler. "Cultural values and norms are embedded in people's expectations of leaders." (more...)

What Does It Take? Competencies for Leading Globally
To help leaders understand the skills needed to operate globally, CCL customized a 360-degree assessment tool for use in its new Advancing Global Leadership program. Here, we've summarized many of the skills measured by the assessment and offered several activities you can do to gauge how savvy you are as a global leader. (more...)

Results of the CCL Poll: Politics in the Workplace
In our April 2007 Leading Effectively e-newsletter, readers were asked several questions about politics in the workplace and political skill. A total of 353 readers responded to the poll. CCL politics experts Bill Gentry and Jean Leslie summarize the results. (more...)

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