As I've been writing throughout the year, I hope that these ideas will be useful for all team members whether in a formal leadership role or not. Especially in a virtual team, the idea of everyone being a leader is essential. A significant focus of my former work as a virtual leader was around capacity building, and empowering the team members over the long term for sustainability and organizational impact, topics I touch on in part three my latest book, From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2014).
A couple of resources you may want to check out for Virtual Leadership issues are:
The Handbook of High- Performance Virtual Teams - Nemiro etc al (eds), Wiley, 2009
Mastering Virtual Teams: Deborah Duarte and Nancy Tennant Snyder, Jossey-Bass, 2006
ASTD/ATD's White Paper on Going the Distance: Virtual Leadership, 2013 - Click here to access
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