Tools for Team Excellence

Getting Your Team into High Gear and Keeping it There

Paperback, ISBN 978-0-891063-87-2

£20.00

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Quick Overview

Designed for use by team leaders or members, Tools for Team Excellence describes how to develop the seven key components of effective teams: specific targets, appropriate talent, clear roles and responsibilities, efficient procedures, constructive relationships, active reinforcement and diplomatic ties with other parts of the organization.

Publication Date: May 8, 1996

Details

Packed with practical team training exercises, this volume provides comprehensive information on building, assessing and improving team performance. Designed for use by team leaders or members, Tools for Team Excellence describes how to develop the seven key components of effective teams: specific targets, appropriate talent, clear roles and responsibilities, efficient procedures, constructive relationships, active reinforcement and diplomatic ties with other parts of the organization. Huszczo examines each component and provides the strategies and techniques needed to ensure team and organizational effectiveness.

List of Exercises

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Preparing for Team Excellence

1 The Nature of Teams in Organizations

2 Preparing Organizations for Teams

3 Getting Team Members Ready for Change

Part 2 The Seven Key Components of Effective Teams

4 Clear Sense of Direction

5 Talented Members

6 Clear and Enticing Responsibilities

7 Reasonable and Efficient Operating Procedures

8 Constructive Interpersonal Relationships

9 Active Reinforcement Systems

10 Constructive External Relationships

Part 3 Evaluating and Maintaining Team Success

11 Sustaining Team Success

12 A Troubleshooter’s Guide to Creating Team Excellence

References and Resources

Index

Gregory E. Huszczo, PhD, is an award-winning teacher and researcher, a licensed psychologist, a consultant and trainer, and an author. His clients include Ford Motor Company, Digital Equipment Corporation, La-Z-Boy, Unisys, AFSCME, Navistar and the Red Cross. Huszczo is currently professor of organizational behavior and development at Eastern Michigan University.

”As a human resource group we had been through every kind of training: You name it, we did it. OF all, only one program endured: Huszczo’s team-building training. Years later, staff were still referring to his seven components of successful teams. It’s not just a quick fix, but a strategy to building long-term superior performance with teams.”—Penny Sharples, Manager, Training and Education, Victorian Administration, Australia Post

”Huszczo has a remarkable gift for telling the truth clearly and compassionately about the challenges that labor and management face when they try to organize into teams. His descriptions ought to inoculate intrepid innovators from the rigors they face, while the practical tools and exercises he presents should ensure that no one has to reinvent the wheel.”—Maureen Sheahan, Director, UAW Region 1A IPS Labor-Management Council

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