Leading and Communicating addresses how Minnesota Online's leadership and communication structures, networks, and processes guide in setting directions, making decisions, seeking future opportunities, and building and sustaining a learning environment. It examines processes and systems related to:

• Leading activities
• Communicating activities
• Alignment of leadership system practices
• Institutional values and expectations
• Direction setting
• Future opportunity seeking
• Decision making
• Use of data
• Leadership development and sharing
• Succession planning
• Measures
• Analysis of results
• Improvement efforts