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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

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Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Publication Date: 03-APR-2012

Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013

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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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Leadership in Action: The Essentials of Leading a High-Performance Team

Leadership in Action: The Essentials of Leading a High-Performance Team

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Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Publication Date: 01-MAR-1999

Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013

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Team leadership has three essential functions: direction, design, and development. ...

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Leadership in Action: Dispersed Teams Need to Get Off on the Right Foot

Leadership in Action: Dispersed Teams Need to Get Off on the Right Foot

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Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Publication Date: 01-JUN-2001

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

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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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Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Cultivating Teams

Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Cultivating Teams

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Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Publication Date: 01-OCT-2002

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

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The leader needs to examine and create or develop appropriate structures and systems to support teamwork. ...

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Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration

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

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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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Management d'équipe

Management d'équipe

By: Jean-Pierre Brun

Publisher: Editions d'Organisation

Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011

Insert Date: 05-FEB-2013

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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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Manage teams successfully

Manage teams successfully

By: A & C Black Publishers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2009

Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012

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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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Facilitation Made Easy

Facilitation Made Easy

By: Esther Esther Cameron

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-SEP-2005

Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012

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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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Practical Facilitation

Practical Facilitation

By: Christine Hogan

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-NOV-2005

Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012

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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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Understanding Facilitation

Understanding Facilitation

By: Christine Hogan

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-NOV-2005

Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012

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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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Brilliant Teams, 2nd Edition

Brilliant Teams, 2nd Edition

By: Douglas Miller

Publisher: Pearson Business

Publication Date: 07-FEB-2011

Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011

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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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The New Why Teams Don't Work

The New Why Teams Don't Work

By: Harvey Robbins; Michael Finley

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2000

Insert Date: 24-OCT-2011

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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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Collaborative Intelligence

Collaborative Intelligence

By: J. Richard Hackman

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Publication Date: 12-MAY-2011

Insert Date: 18-OCT-2011

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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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How to Make Collaboration Work

How to Make Collaboration Work

By: David A. Straus

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Publication Date: 02-OCT-2002

Insert Date: 15-OCT-2011

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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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Teamwork Is an Individual Skill

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

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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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Problem Solving for Teams: Make Consensus More Achievable, Third Edition

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

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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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Successful Team Building

Successful Team Building: 20 Tips, Tools, and Exercises

By: Glenn Parker

Publisher: HRD Press

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2011

Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011

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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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Team Rewards

Team Rewards: 20 Real Life Lessons

By: Glenn Parker

Publisher: HRD Press

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010

Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011

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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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Team Trust

Team Trust: 20 Trustworthy Tips

By: Glenn Parker

Publisher: HRD Press

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010

Insert Date: 16-SEP-2011

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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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50 Activities for Self-Directed Teams

50 Activities for Self-Directed Teams

By: Glenn M. Parker; Richard P. Kropp Jr.

Publisher: HRD Press

Publication Date: 01-JAN-1995

Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011

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Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials. Implement successful self-managed teams in your organization. This collection of proven training exercises has been tested and refined in actual team training sessions, and covers all aspects of team development, including mutual goal setting, managing team stagnation, and developing team norms. The activities encourage active participation and feedback from participants and come complete with all the necessary questionnaires, exercises, and handouts. ...