Team-Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective Workplace Teams

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Paperback
2007
$15.75
Workplace teams learn to function as effective units when they have the tools and techniques to be greater than the sum of their parts. Now thoroughly updated and expanded, The Team-Building Tool Kit provides practical advice to guide team coaches, leaders, and members to high-performance results. Filled with bullet points to make tips and strategies quick and easy to grasp, the book covers both the structure and nitty-gritty process details that so often derail even the best teams. Readers will learn how to:
- Have effective team meetings
- Improve accountability for results and team member behavior
- Assess team performance
- Resolve team conflicts
- Recognize the pitfalls that affect decision making
- Train for high performance
- Design a plan for implementation
Featuring new sections on team accountability, decision making, and problem solving, this team-building classic is a must-have for every team library.

Synopsis

Workplace teams learn to function as effective units when they have the tools and techniques to be greater than the sum of their parts. Now thoroughly updated and expanded, The Team-Building Tool Kit provides practical advice to guide team coaches, leaders, and members to high-performance results. Filled with bullet points to make tips and strategies quick and easy to grasp, the book covers both the structure and nitty-gritty process details that so often derail even the best teams. Readers will learn how to:

Have effective team meetings
Improve accountability for results and team member behavior
Assess team performance
Resolve team conflicts
Recognize the pitfalls that affect decision making
Train for high performance
Design a plan for implementation

Featuring new sections on team accountability, decision making, and problem solving, this team-building classic is a must-have for every team library.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: 2
Publisher: AMACOM
Published: 01 Sep 2007
ISBN 10: 081447439X
ISBN 13: 9780814474396

Media Reviews

.. .whether you are empowering employees to participate in self-directed work teams, or you want to encourage increased employee ownership and participation in decision making--while retaining your traditional reporting relationships--or you want to provide your front-line leaders with new supervisory ideas and tactics, this book is an excellent resource. The topics and suggestions are timeless...The practical descriptions, tools, and insights are useful in nearly any employment stracture. Whether you use the book to spark discussion or as a reference tool. The Team-Building Tool Kit is a good addition to any management library. -- Facilities Manager
.. .an excellent resource....a good addition to any management library. Facilities Manager

Author Bio

Deborah Mackin (North Bennington, VT) is President of New Directions Consulting, with over 20 years of international experience building workplace teams. Her clients have included Delta Faucet Company, Aventis (Sanofi Pasteur), Hemmings Motor Company, and many others. She is the author of the first edition of The Team-Building Tool Kit.