How to Implement a Distributed Leadership Program

From eHow, by Adaptive Leadership Systems ...

"Distributed leadership refers to shared leadership and management responsibilities by multiple employees. Today’s modern workplace has the potential to place high demand on leaders and managers, oftentimes to the point where they become overloaded with tasks and responsibilities. Many leaders can handle the increased pressure, but if they are not training their subordinates in some of the leadership duties they could be hurting the organization. If leaders are out sick or on vacation and they have not ensured their subordinates are trained to handle some of their leadership duties during their absence, the result could be confusion, miscommunication, duplication of effort, or lost productivity.

Read on to learn more about the ways that organizations can implement a distributed leadership program that may help leaders to function more efficiently and help ensure a continuity of operations while leaders are away from work.

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