A quick, clear way to learn about teamwork, with a useful framework for identifying critical roles of team players. --Peter Block This handbook will help you focus on what makes a good team player. It draws on stories of more than fifty team-driven organizations?including Xerox, Honeywell, General Motors, and 3M?to give you proven evidence of the qualities of high performing teams. You'll discover: <ul>
<li>Four styles of team players critical to an effective, dynamic team</li> <li>The right balance of styles to create a productive team</li> <li>How to get team members to support, challenge, and inspire one another to achieve stellar results</li> <li>A useful framework for identifying team roles</li> </ul>
Here's a practical guide for your team leaders and members who need to maintain their competitive advantage through teamwork.

Team Players and Teamwork

Business & Money

Parker, Glenn M.

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results! Implement successful cross-functional teams in your organization. This useful tool kit and book are packed with examples and ideas for effective team building. The book helps you to successfully develop your own cross-functional teams by using advice from more than 100 companies, including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and many others. You'll learn how to set goals for shared commitments and how to overcome barriers and obstacles to teamwork. You'll learn how to:  Develop a plan to implement cross-functional teams Facilitate the launch of a set of new teams Design a training program for team members and leaders Conduct training and team building for new and ongoing teams Work with the senior management team to gain their support for cross-functional teams . . . and much more!  The tool kit gives you:  Six invigorating icebreakers Five experiential team-building activities Five insightful assessment tools Five useful abstracts and reports Six detailed case studies . . . and more!  The looseleaf binder format facilitates quick preparation. Photocopy what you need, and you're ready! With Parker's help, you'll create collaboration in diverse groups and discover the cross-functional team advantage.

Cross Functional Teams, Tool Kit Package: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers (includes one copy each of Tool Kit & book)

Pfeiffer

In this completely revised version of his best-selling book, Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Strangers, author and consultant Glenn Parker updates his definitive practical guide to include his recent work in team rewards and recognition, communications technology, and multicultural and virtual-team issues. This new edition contains fresh examples and additional case studies of successful cross-functional teams from IBM, Parke-Davis, Xerox, Boeing, BOC Gases, government agencies, and more. Parker offers concrete advice and inspiration to team leaders, team members, and senior management. Cross-Functional Teams delivers a team operating manual to executives, team leaders, human resource professionals, and students of organizational behavior and provides a tool kit of assessment surveys, worksheets, checklists, and even sample training programs to help launch and sustain effective teams.

Cross-Functional Teams: Working With Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Cross- Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers

Meeting Excellence is a comprehensive resource that provides a wide range of ready-to-use tools that have been developed and tested by a meeting initiative within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It is based on years of research observing team meetings, examining existing meeting documents, and conducting a number of intensive individual interviews in the U.S. and Europe. This important book offers the information and tools needed to prepare, facilitate, and follow up on all your meetings. Step by step, Meeting Excellence shows how to <ul> Create an action-focused meeting agenda Ensure that everyone participates in discussion Deal with disruptive and inattentive people Develop a climate of trust among meeting participants Create and deliver effective meeting presentations Stay on track to achieve your meeting goals Achieve clear communication during a multicultural meeting Liven up a dreary and unproductive meeting Close your meeting on an upbeat and positive note Get action on team action items Improve meeting communications with line management Evaluate your meeting quickly and effectively Choose among various web-based meeting tools </ul>

Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results

Hoffman,Robert

Praise for Team Players and Teamwork "In the new edition of Team Players and Teamwork Glenn Parker updates his landmark compendium on the essential effect of cross-functional teamwork to encompass the added complexities of globalization facing team leaders and team members in the twenty-first century. Anyone participating on or managing members of a cross-functional team will benefit from reading this essential guide to successful teamwork." -Jeffrey W. Warmke, vice president, global project management and leadership, Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development "Glenn Parker has the unique combination of sound thinking and clear writing. In his recent version of Team Players and Teamwork he succeeds in taking this combination of skills to a higher level." -Sivasilam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi, Inc. "Glenn's book is a must-read for team leaders and team members who are looking for a comprehensive set of tools and ideas to help teams perform more effectively. Glenn offers practical wisdom-based on years of first-hand experience-that is unparalleled in the field of team dynamics." -Robert Hoffman, executive director, organization development and talent management, oncology business unit, Norvartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration

This new collection of instruments provides team building practitioners with tools designed to assist in the development of individuals, teams, and organizations. The instruments range from very simple, self-scored tools, to more complex assessments that provide in-depth information on teams. All of the instruments are fully reproducible which makes them a very cost-effective alternative to in-house development or off-the-shelf instruments. Provides survey tools for three areas of team development Effective team players-these instruments help team members, team leaders, and team coaches identify their strengths and weaknesses and use the survey data to build a self-improvement plan. Effective teams-includes tools to increase the effectiveness of the way a team accomplishes its tasks. Covers team meetings, high performance, customer focus and other team issues. Organizational effectiveness-These survey tools address the specific issue of team-based organizations. They measure the extent to which the organizations culture, structure, and systems support a teamwork strategy. Team Player Competency Profile Team Leader Assessment Self-Directed Team Coach Being Accountable Team Member Listening Profile Team Sponsor Assessment Ten-Minute Team Member Check-up Cross-Functional Team Conflict Survey High Performance Profile: A Mature Team Assessment Customer Focus Survey: A Mature Team Assessment Customer Perceptions Survey: A Team Feedback Instrument Management Team Decision Profile: Teaming at the Top Team Humor Quotient Virtual Team Assessment Self-Management Success Factors Quick Team Check Team Trouble Ticket Team Meeting Assessment Team Success Survey Survey of Cross-Functional Teamwork Organizational Alignment Assessment Team Culture Survey Organizational Structure Assessment Organizational Culture Survey Self-Directed Team Readiness Survey

25 Instruments for Team Building

Economics

Human Resource Development Pr

Meeting Excellence is a comprehensive resource that provides a wide range of ready-to-use tools that have been developed and tested by a meeting initiative within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It is based on years of research observing team meetings, examining existing meeting documents, and conducting a number of intensive individual interviews in the U.S. and Europe. This important book offers the information and tools needed to prepare, facilitate, and follow up on all your meetings. Step by step, Meeting Excellence shows how to 
<ul> Create an action-focused meeting agenda Ensure that everyone participates in discussion Deal with disruptive and inattentive people Develop a climate of trust among meeting participants Create and deliver effective meeting presentations Stay on track to achieve your meeting goals Achieve clear communication during a multicultural meeting Liven up a dreary and unproductive meeting Close your meeting on an upbeat and positive note Get action on team action items Improve meeting communications with line management Evaluate your meeting quickly and effectively Choose among various web-based meeting tools </ul>

Skills

Team Players and Teamwork: The New Competitive Business Strategy (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results! Implement successful cross-functional teams in your organization. This useful tool kit and book are packed with examples and ideas for effective team building. The book helps you to successfully develop your own cross-functional teams by using advice from more than 100 companies, including Merck, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and many others. You'll learn how to set goals for shared commitments and how to overcome barriers and obstacles to teamwork. You'll learn how to: <ul>
<li>Develop a plan to implement cross-functional teams</li> <li>Facilitate the launch of a set of new teams</li> <li>Design a training program for team members and leaders</li> <li>Conduct training and team building for new and ongoing teams</li> <li>Work with the senior management team to gain their support for cross-functional teams . . . and much more!</li> </ul>
The tool kit gives you: <ul>
<li>Six invigorating icebreakers</li> <li>Five experiential team-building activities</li> <li>Five insightful assessment tools</li> <li>Five useful abstracts and reports</li> <li>Six detailed case studies . . . and more!</li> </ul>
The looseleaf binder format facilitates quick preparation. Photocopy what you need, and you're ready! With Parker's help, you'll create collaboration in diverse groups and discover the cross-functional team advantage.

Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers (includes one copy each of Tool Kit & book)

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Team Players and Teamwork

Cross Functional Teams, Tool Kit Package: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers (includes one copy each of Tool Kit & book)

Cross-Functional Teams: Working With Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers

Cross- Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers

Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results

Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration

25 Instruments for Team Building

Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results

Team Players and Teamwork: The New Competitive Business Strategy (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers (includes one copy each of Tool Kit & book)