Teams & Team Building
This collection focuses on summaries on the following topics:
- Teams
- Team Building
- Team Management
- Global Teams
There are over 20 summaries in this collection, with at least one new summary added each month. This collection offers an excellent overview for professionals who work in teams, or lead teams both locally and globally. Click here to see the current titles in the Teams & Team Building collection
In This Collection
Turning around a failing team is not an easy task. In Team Turnarounds, Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl present their findings from interviews with successful team leaders in sports and business,...
In Peer Power, Cynthia Clay and Ray Olitt address disruptive behaviors in the workplace and suggest methods that readers can employ to influence improvement in the conduct of their peers. The...
In Collaborative Intelligence, scholar and researcher J. Richard Hackman uses his experience as an intelligence community consultant to present strategies for creating an environment that supports the...
In Who’s in the Room?, Bob Frisch examines how leaders can better utilize their teams while increasing satisfaction and productivity. CEOs and their Senior Management Teams (SMTs) frequently experience...
In The Secret of Teams, Mark Miller examines what makes high-performance teams so effective. This engaging business parable follows the continuing story of Debbie Brewster (the heroine from Miller’s...
In today's business environment, it is not unusual to be managing several generations at once. While everyone may be talented, hardworking, and committed to the organization, professionals of different ages have...
In The Employee Engagement Mindset, Timothy R. Clark reveals that the business world has been focusing on only the organization’s role in driving employee engagement, while ignoring the other...
Personality Style at Work by Kate Ward describes the proven personality style model from HRDQ, the noted training materials developer. This book is intended to help both managers and team members reach...
In Brave Dragons, New York Times foreign correspondent Jim Yardley profiles the 2008-2009 season of an underdog Chinese basketball team, the Shanxi Brave Dragons, whose owner made the radical decision...
In Collaborate!, Dan Sanker aims to offer a practical guide for capturing business opportunities through the art of collaboration. In coming years, survival of the fittest will be determined by...
The Rowers’ Code by Marilyn Krichko with Jane Rollinson tells the story of what it takes to build a great team. This business parable follows a team of eight people with a new manager as they...
Over the past 20 years, Internet-based online learning has grown from a rudimentary tool to a routine part of business operations. Today, virtual teams give businesspeople across the globe uninterrupted access to...
In Make Work Great, Ed Muzio outlines a strategy for creating and growing cultural change in the workplace. Whether one is a manager or an individual contributor, Muzio’s book serves as a blueprint for...
In today’s complex organizations it is not uncommon to have as many as 50 percent of employees working on virtual teams. Virtual collaboration has already begun to transform many business sectors. The gradual shift of...
The circle not only symbolically represents a different way of meeting as a group, but it also physically changes the way that people interact with one another. When entering a circle, people immediately understand...
In The Improvisation Edge, author Karen Hough provides a guide for applying the intrinsic collaborative skills and behaviors of theatrical improvisers to increase innovation and efficiencies and to...
In The First-Time Manager’s Guide to Team Building, Gary S. Topchik explains how to achieve a powerful team that can focus successfully on the desired end results. Topchik dissects the meaning of team...
In 10 Steps to Successful Facilitation, the American Society for Training and Development provides detailed instructions on becoming an effective and skillful facilitator. It discusses the...
In Nice Teams Finish Last, Brian Cole Miller offers readers methods for improving communication among team members by exposing the myths of nice and fierce teams. He goes on to define the four bold...
In The Hands-Off Manager, authors Steve Chandler and Duane Black explore ways to nurture success in the form of hands-off leadership that results in happy employees and increased productivity. The...
People take part in group activities in countless aspects of their lives, but truly exceptional group experiences are rare. Groups that can harnesses the energy to satisfy their goals and surpass expectations have a...
10 Steps to Successful Teams by Renie McClay is a guide for team leaders and team members who are charged with accomplishing tasks through collaborative workforce groups. Organizations that use teams effectively...
What does the ideal organic team look like? The Firefly Effect addresses the key characteristics that compose creative, energetic, and productive teams and discusses practical methods leaders can use...
Great teams stand apart from the rest. They are undaunted by the toughest business challenges and are not content with simply overcoming such challenges. Instead, they use them as opportunities for transformation. In...
In Engagement Is Not Enough, Keith Ayers details the steps companies must take to engage with their employees and inspire passionate team participation. Managers of teams large and small will learn how...
Teams are only as strong as their weakest relationships. How well and how quickly they make decisions, inspire innovation, tackle performance problems, or learn from mistakes depends on the strength of the team. Since...
According to Gratton, Hot Spots are places and times—workplaces, teams, departments, companies, factories, cities, industries, coffee shops, hallways, and/or conferences—where people work in exceptionally creative and...
According to Glaser, organizations lose their spirit, become mediocre, and die when they fall prey to what she calls the self-serving I-centric behaviors of control, blame, resignation, attachment to the past,...
Written by Jill Nemiro—an expert in organizational and team creativity—Creativity in Virtual Teams offers readers a model for achieving high levels of creativity in a virtual environment. As a result of global...
Team builders will, at one time or another, face the challenge of fostering group harmony in groups where there are inevitably going to be flaws due to human nature. According to author Patrick Lencioni, human beings...
