Effectiveness in today's workplace relies on how well people can pool their talents, resources, and knowledge to achieve results. It is their daily interactions that determine the ultimate success of a strategy or how well it is executed. Data from the authors demonstrate there is a big gap between what people and groups actually achieve and what they could achieve if they could interact more effectively. This book discusses how to close these interaction gaps. Unfortunately, most interventions aimed at improving teamwork or collaboration have a superficial impact at best. In this book, Max Isaac and Anton McBurnie explain the four fatal flaws that doom such efforts, including the failure to account for the emotional component of interaction and the over-reliance on classroom training to solve real world problems. A longer-lasting solution is based on an integration of what the authors label as fun, mundane, and tricky approaches. The fun work allows people and groups to understand what strengths they have to work with and what weaknesses they have to manage (not overcome). The mundane work helps them eliminate the enormous waste associated with poor meetings and misunderstandings. The tricky approaches teach them how to benefit from differences rather than get sidetracked into unproductive conflict. Learning to close interaction gaps is like greasing the cogs in a gear: it makes the whole assembly run smoothly. You'll see improvements in everything from communication and decisions to alignment and group dynamics.

Close the Interaction Gap: Discover, harness, and accelerate the collaborative potential of your leaders, teams, and organization

Business & Money

Isaac, Max

McBurnie, Anton

Management & Leadership

Bridge Publishing

Capitalizing on their combined years of experience in general management and consulting, authors Max Isaac and Anton McBurnie have defined a framework that helps organizations understand the importance of leadership and group dynamics. The Third Circle explores the balance between sound strategy, superior execution and effective interaction, with a focus on the need to enhance leadership and teamwork.This book will take you through the development of individual mastery and leadership, by understanding and building on your personal strengths and by managing and/or compensating for your blind spots. It will also help you discover how group dynamics influence behavior and overall organizational success. The ultimate goal is to create an environment that promotes continuous personal and professional growth.

The Third Circle: Interactions That Drive Results

Capitalizing on their combined years of experience in general management and consulting, authors Max Isaac and Anton McBurnie have defined a framework that helps organizations understand the importance of leadership and group dynamics. The Third Circle explores the balance between sound strategy, superior execution and effective interaction, with a focus on the need to enhance leadership and teamwork.This book will take you through the development of individual mastery and leadership, by understanding and building on your personal strengths and by managing and/or compensating for your blind spots. It will also help you discover how group dynamics influence behavior and overall organizational success. The ultimate goal is to create an environment that promotes continuous personal and professional growth.

The Third Circle: Interactions That Drive Lean Six Sigma Results

Most managers have been taught to put together a team based primarily on people’s knowledge about the process or problem being studied. This single-dimensional approach unintentionally sets up a lot of teams for failure because they have the wrong mix of personal styles and skills. Likewise, it puts individual team members in a position where they often cannot play to their strengths. The result is mediocre teams at best. To reverse this trend, Max Isaac and Kevin Carson have drawn on their many years of experience and the pioneering research of Meredith Belbin to develop practical guidelines for creating consistently successful teams. This handbook explains Belbin’s theory about team composition, shows how it applies when selecting team members, and demonstrates how it helps people become more personally successful in the workplace.

A Guide to Belbin Team Roles: How to increase personal and team performance

CARSON, KEVIN

Human Resources

Setting Teams Up for Success explores the tactics essential to operating an effective project team selecting the team, mission / charter, assigning responsibilities, process ground rules, learning and feedback activities. This book also contains the Belbin Team Role content described below in A Guide to Team Roles.

Setting Teams Up for Success

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Gale Ecco, Making of Modern Law

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