Beschreibung:
This book is filled with the concepts, ideas, and practical suggestions that are needed for any manager to have at hand if he or she is a member or creator of a committee, team, task-force, or any other activity involving collaboration among several people. The ideas are proven by several decades of experience and well-supported in the text with numerous examples.
This book is filled with the concepts, ideas, and practical suggestions that are needed for any manager to have at hand if he or she is a member or creator of a committee, team, task-force, or any other activity involving collaboration among several people. The ideas are proven by several decades of experience and well-supported in the text with numerous examples.
Foreword (Edgar H. Schein).Introduction.The Authors.Part One: The Four Cs of Team Development.1 The Search for the High-Performing Team.2 Context: Laying the Foundation for Team Success.3 Composition: Getting the Right People on the Bus.4 Competencies: Developing Team Skills for High Performance.5 Change: Devising More Effective Ways of Working Together.6 Bringing the Four Cs Together: Designing a Team-BuildingProgram.Part Two: Solving Specific Problems Through TeamBuilding.7 Managing Conflict in the Team.8 Overcoming Unhealthy Agreement.9 Reducing Conflict Between Teams.Part Three: Team Building in Different Kinds ofTeams.10 Managing the Temporary Team.11 High-Performing Virtual Teams.12 Managing Interorganizational (Alliance) Teams.Part Four: The Challenge of Team Building for theFuture.13 Challenges for Building Effective Teams.Notes.Index.