Creating effective & successful teams /
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| Author / Creator: | Keen, Thomas R. |
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| Imprint: | West Lafayette, Ind. : Ichor Business Books, c2003. |
| Description: | ix, 85 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7897477 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Why Teams?
- Teams Have Been Used Successfully for Decades
- Teams in the Twenty-First Century
- What Is a Team?
- What Are the Basic Components of Teams?
- Benefits of Team Building
- Teams Can Also Have Some Downsides
- So, Are Teams the Only Solution to Evaluate?
- But ... Teams Are Everywhere
- The Importance of Teams in the Future
- 2. Make Teams Part of Your Culture and Organizational Structure
- Make a Team-Friendly Culture!
- It Takes a Real Commitment ... or Else!
- How to Start? Get a Team Mentality!
- Practical Tip 1. Develop a team infrastructure to facilitate successful team operations
- The Lead Team
- The Team Champion
- The Individual Team
- Practical Tip 2. Match the mission or charter with the appropriate kind of team
- But ... Teams Are Not the Ubiquitous Solution
- 3. Teams Are Not the Quick Fix
- Give the Teams Time to Develop: The Classical Approach to How Teams Evolve
- Practical Tip 3. Discover the new paradigm of how teams evolve
- Establish a Sense of Purpose for Each Team
- The Key Factors of Successful Teams
- Be Prepared to Recognize Resistance to Teams
- 4. Let's Start with Teamwork
- Teamwork Makes Teams Effective
- Essentials of Teamwork
- Practical Tip 4. Know the seven characteristics of high-performing teams
- Essentials of Empowerment
- Practical Tip 5. Success equals empowerment
- So, How Does a Team Champion Impact Teamwork?
- How Does a Team Champion Impact the Team?
- Guidelines for Effective Teamwork
- Effective Team Interpersonal Relationships
- The Idea of Team Building
- Practical Tip 6. Know the seven steps to achieve successful teamwork
- What to Look for to See if Teamwork Is Really There
- 5. Teams Start with People
- Teams Are People, Too!
- The Key That Unlocks the Secret of Selecting the Right Team Players
- Belbin's Hypothesis
- 6. How to Match the Right People to the Right Team
- First, Match Functional Competencies with Team Competencies
- Practical Tip 7. Identify realistic team competency roles using Keen's Team Competency Roles
- Practical Tip 8. Identify each person's MBTI on a team
- Practical Tip 9. Balance the team membership based on the team mission
- Balanced Teams = Successful Teams
- 7. How to Cope with Team Issues
- Practical Tip 10. Learn to play by the rules
- Gaining Consensus
- Team Training Issues
- Coping with Common Problems Using Teams
- Dealing with Problem Participants
- Rush to Get It Done
- Lost in Space
- Practical Tip 11. Learn the art of persuasion--without arm twisting
- Team Conflict or Feuding
- Practical Tip 12. Establish ground rules for conflict resolution
- 8. How to Monitor Team Success
- Focus on the Output
- Oops!! It's Not Working?
- Practical Tip 13. Start with the big picture--dipstick the organization's team temperature
- Team Effectiveness Auditing Techniques
- Practical Tip 14. Complete a total team audit
- Practical Tip 15. Complete a self-contribution audit
- Practical Tip 16. Complete a peer audit
- Tools that Enable Teams to Achieve Effectiveness
- 9. How to Model Team Effectiveness
- Start from the Beginning!
- Practical Tip 17. Use Keen's Team Effectiveness Model
- Now, Go Forth and Develop Successful Teams!
- Bibliography
- Index
