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1. |  By: Craig Weber Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
OPEN, BALANCED DIALOGUE--THE KEY TO PEAK TEAM PERFORMANCEIn a world of rapid-fire change, it’s more important than ever to build teams that work well when the pressure is on—and quality communication can mean the difference between success and failure.Conversational Capacity provides the communication tools you need to ensure that your team remains on track even when dealing with its most troublesome issues, that it responds to tough challenges with agility and skill, and performs brilliantly in circumstances that would incapacitate less disciplined teams.
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2. |  Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy By: Amy C. Edmondson; Edgar H. Schein Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not...
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3. |  Leadership in Action: The Essentials of Leading a High-Performance Team Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-MAR-1999 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: The Essentials of Leading a High-Performance Team
Team leadership has three essential functions: direction, design, and development.
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4. |  Leadership in Action: Dispersed Teams Need to Get Off on the Right Foot By: Valerie I. Sessa; Michael C. Hansen; Michael E. Kossler; Sonya Prestridge Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dispersed Teams Need to Get Off on the Right Foot
The latest research by CCL sheds light on how members of dispersed teams interact, how to best build and support such teams, and how dispersed teams achieve their goals
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5. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Cultivating Teams Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Cultivating Teams
The leader needs to examine and create or develop appropriate structures and systems to support teamwork.
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6. |  Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration By: Judith H. Katz; Frederick A. Miller Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-APR-2013 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration Your people might be your organization’s greatest assets, but their interactions with one another are what determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions. Too many neglect this basic truth and fail to create the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together.
In this concise, engaging book, Judith Katz and Fred Miller describe four deceptively simple behavioral guidelines that fundamentally change the way people work together:
? Lean into Discomfort: Encourage yourself and others to move beyond comfort zones, speak up, do new...
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7. |  By: Jean-Pierre Brun Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 05-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Management d'équipe
Présentation
Le secret des équipes efficaces? C'est aussi celui des entreprises saines : leurs membres s'y sentent bien!
La recette du bien-être en entreprise est si simple que de nombreux managers l'oublient. Il s'agit pour eux de réintroduire dans leurs pratiques les 7 pièces manquantes du management .
1. Reconnaissance
2. Soutien social
3. Respect
4. Travail et vie personnelle
5. Charge de travail
6. Participation aux décisions
7. Rôles clairs
Au sommaire
Découvres les pièces manquantes du management
Témoignez de la reconnaissance
Soutenez vos...
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8. |  By: A & C Black Publishers Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication Date: 01-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Manage teams successfully
Managing just one person can be difficult enough, but pulling together a team of people can be tricky even for experienced leaders. This book helps you create an effective team that can really get things done. It helps you form a good team in the first place, deal with tensions that may arise, communicate well, and motivate team members towards your overall goal.
Most of us have to work with other people for some or most of our day. If you're a project manager in particular, you'll need to be able to pull together a team from different areas of your business and help everyone work...
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9. |  By: Esther Esther Cameron Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-SEP-2005 Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Facilitation Made Easy The facilitator's task of opening up discussion, getting ideas into the open and setting broad future direction is essential if a group is to reach consensus on a particular outcome and it is now one of the key techniques used in meetings and workshops. Facilitation Made Easy provides a practical introduction to the essential skills needed and will help readers develop a facilitation style that is unbiased and enables control without being overpowering.
With detailed examples, proven tips for success, checklists and a self assessment guide to help readers test their own personal approach...
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10. |  By: Christine Hogan Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical Facilitation
A facilitator helps groups of people to enable them to interact more effectively in a wide range of situations and occupations, including workplaces, organizational planning, leisure and health activities and community development. Facilitation is an emerging and exciting profession.
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11. |  By: Christine Hogan Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Understanding Facilitation
Facilitation is emerging as an exciting profession. It is being used in a wide range of situations and occupations, including workplaces, leisure and health activities, organizational planning and community development. This book provides a readable introduction for newcomers to the topic as
well as a critical analysis of established and current theory for existing practitioners. It will be useful for managers, staff developers, innovators, and social and community workers....
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12. |  By: Douglas Miller Publisher: Pearson Business Publication Date: 07-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Brilliant Teams, 2nd Edition No matter what kind of team you’re in or what role you play, Brilliant Teams gives you the core ingredients to make you and your team a truly brilliant one. You’ll find out exactly what it takes to excel as a team player and leader, as well as common team ‘traps’ to avoid. Brilliant outcomes: Find out what it takes to be a brilliant team player and leader. Learn how to get the best out of your environment. Understand different teams and what makes them tick
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13. |  By: Harvey Robbins; Michael Finley Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publication Date: 01-JAN-2000 Insert Date: 24-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The New Why Teams Don't Work As much about people as it is about business, this down-to-earth book by two experts in the field of teamwork has been substantially updated throughout--with eight new chapters, including "Dealing with Difficult People" and "The Myth that Sports Teams and Work Teams are Similar"....
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14. |  By: J. Richard Hackman Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 12-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 18-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Collaborative Intelligence Intelligence professionals are commonly viewed as solo operators. But these days intelligence work is mostly about collaboration. Interdisciplinary and even inter-organizational teams are necessary to solve the really hard problems intelligence professionals face. Tragically, these teams often devolve into wheel-spinning, contentious assemblies that get nothing done. Or members may disengage from a team if they find its work frustrating, trivial, or a waste of their time. Even teams with a spirit of camaraderie may take actions that are flat-out wrong.
But there is also good news. This...
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15. |  How to Make Collaboration Work By: David A. Straus Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 02-OCT-2002 Insert Date: 15-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Make Collaboration Work Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient. In How to Make Collaboration Work, David Straus, a pioneer in the field of group problem solving, introduces five principles of collaboration that have been proven successful time and again in nearly every conceivable setting.
Straus draws on his thirty years of personal and professional experience to show how these principles have been applied by organizations as diverse as Ford Motor Company, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harvard Business...
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16. |  Teamwork Is an Individual Skill By: Christopher M. Avery; Meri A. Walker; Erin O. Murphy Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 09-APR-2001 Insert Date: 13-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Teamwork Is an Individual Skill Knowing how to work effectively in and through groups may be the single most important skill anyone can develop in today's collaborative, team-based workplace. Unfortunately, all of the resources available on teamwork put the emphasis on group process and ignore the role of-and benefits to-the individual. But effective teamwork isn't only a group skill set; it's an individual skill set as well. Teamwork Is an Individual Skill shows readers how to develop the skills to thrive on any team, under any circumstances. No longer will readers find themselves complaining, "I got assigned to a bad...
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17. |  Problem Solving for Teams: Make Consensus More Achievable, Third Edition By: Sandy Pokras Publisher: Axzo Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 23-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Problem Solving for Teams: Make Consensus More Achievable, Third Edition
Make Consensus More Achievable
Working together. Sharing responsibility. Depending on each other. These are probably things your team does well already. Now you can add "solving problems" to the list. Whether it's a work group, ad hoc committee or management team, it can be difficult for people to make decisions together. The key is unifying everyone around a common mission and leveraging individual strengths to achieve it.
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18. |  Successful Team Building: 20 Tips, Tools, and Exercises By: Glenn Parker Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Successful Team Building: 20 Tips, Tools, and Exercises
In this easy-to-use manual, team building expert and author Glenn Parker shows you how to successfully conduct team building (when team building is called for). As with the other books in this series, this is accomplished through the use of assessments, activities and exercises.
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19. |  Team Rewards: 20 Real Life Lessons By: Glenn Parker Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Team Rewards: 20 Real Life Lessons
You may know how to form, train, develop and facilitate teams. But do you know how to reward them? Experts in developing rewards and recognition programs agree: One size does not fit all. The key is knowing which type of plan or combination of plans will work in your situation. And this book, from The Parker Team Series, will help you make that determination.
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20. |  Team Trust: 20 Trustworthy Tips By: Glenn Parker Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Team Trust: 20 Trustworthy Tips
When there isn't a high level of trust among team members, communication is guarded, the climate is tense, meetings are stiff and formal and the team goes nowhere. But when trust increases, so do performance and results. This concise book, from The Parker Team Series, tackles this often-ignored subject and is exactly what leaders need to build a team of employees who trust each other – and their leader.
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