Offers accessible, practical advice for getting past barriers to team success

Focuses on both team members and team leaders

Features a wealth of assessments and tools to help implement the steps and chart progress along the way

Most projects or initiatives in today’s organizations begin with the formation of a team. Indeed, the global nature of doing business today demands that people perform well together as cross-functional and cross-cultural teams. Teams need to be able to connect quickly, determine what needs to be done, identify obstacles and overcome them, and meet deadlines and goals. Positive collaboration is essential. Yet the majority of resources available for this core business activity are long on description and short on implementation.

You’ll find this missing practical, east-to-implement advice in 10 Steps to Successful Teams. Using a holistic, process-oriented approach, this book carefully guides readers through building strong new teams and improving even the best existing ones. The straightforward, accessible steps can be followed in sequence, or you can go directly to the step that addresses your particular, immediate need. Renie McClay includes extensive assessments and tools created just for this book to help identify roles on the team, improve communication, track progress, encourage creativity, work virtually, deal with problems, celebrate success, and more. You will find individual team member and leader self-assessments to help focus the team on getting results and identify areas for improvement.

This book was written for both team leaders and team members. Each of the ten steps has content and specific tips for both audiences. This is no accident. Being a great team member plays just as important a role in the success of any team effort as being a great leader. This book can be used by individuals on a team or by the entire team as a developmental tool.

An effective team can unleash a collective intelligence and energy that is far more than the sum of its parts. McClay’s 10 Steps to Successful Teams is a concise, instantly actionable guide that can help any organization reap the powerful benefits of effective, engaged teamwork.

Offers accessible, practical advice for getting past barriers to team success

Focuses on both team members and team leaders

Features a wealth of assessments and tools to help implement the steps and chart progress along the way

 

Most projects or initiatives in today s organizations begin with the formation of a team. Indeed, the global nature of doing business today demands that people perform well together as cross-functional and cross-cultural teams. Teams need to be able to connect quickly, determine what needs to be done, identify obstacles and overcome them, and meet deadlines and goals. Positive collaboration is essential. Yet the majority of resources available for this core business activity are long on description and short on implementation.

You ll find this missing practical, east-to-implement advice in 10 Steps to Successful Teams. Using a holistic, process-oriented approach, this book carefully guides readers through building strong new teams and improving even the best existing ones. The straightforward, accessible steps can be followed in sequence, or you can go directly to the step that addresses your particular, immediate need. Renie McClay includes extensive assessments and tools created just for this book to help identify roles on the team, improve communication, track progress, encourage creativity, work virtually, deal with problems, celebrate success, and more. You will find individual team member and leader self-assessments to help focus the team on getting results and identify areas for improvement.

This book was written for both team leaders and team members. Each of the ten steps has content and specific tips for both audiences. This is no accident. Being a great team member plays just as important a role in the success of any team effort as being a great leader. This book can be used by individuals on a team or by the entire team as a developmental tool.

An effective team can unleash a collective intelligence and energy that is far more than the sum of its parts. McClay s 10 Steps to Successful Teams is a concise, instantly actionable guide that can help any organization reap the powerful benefits of effective, engaged teamwork.

There is a growing epidemic afflicting people working in social change that is rarely talked about - burnout. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship, offers The Age of Overwhelm as the salve for healing.Whether we are overwhelmed by work or school; our families or communities; caretaking for others or ourselves; or engagement in social justice, environmental advocacy, or civil service, just a few subtle shifts can help sustain us. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship, shows us how by offering concrete strategies to help us mitigate harm, cultivate our ability to be decent and equitable, and act with integrity. The Age of Overwhelm aims to help ease our burden of overwhelm, restore our perspective, and give us strength to navigate what is yet to come.

Fusion Leadership describes a new way of leading based on "fusion," a coming together of whole individuals to accomplish mutual goals based on shared vision and values. Fusion leaders are those who engage not only the bodies and minds of their employees, but also their hearts and souls. Unlike the traditional, hierarchical "fission" management style used for centuries in business, fusion leadership supports personal growth and ingenuity, qualities that facilitate change.

Building on the New Science assumptions that organizations can act as living systems and evolve with changing conditions, Fusion Leadership shows, in practical terms, how individuals and organizations can grow together. Fusion, the authors reveal, unleashes subtle forces-mindfulness, vision, heart, courage, communication, and integrity-which can fundamentally transform organizations.

Mindfulness, they say, represents independent thinking, personal creativity, and an open mind. Vision encompasses the higher purpose toward which people work. Heart represents caring and compassion-positive feelings that underlie workplace relationships. Communication influences vision, values, and emotions; it also involves listening and discerning. Courage motivates people to take risks. Integrity involves honesty, trust, and service-going beyond self-interest to give something to the organization. Through stories, parables, and probing questions, the book helps readers begin to revive these qualities within themselves. It also shows the value and applications of social technologies based on conversation-including dialogue, future search, and whole-scale change-which leaders can use to create organizational fusion, unleashing new synergies among people and achieving far-reaching results.

• Richard Daft is the author of two leading management textbooks, each of which has sold over 230,000 copies: Organization Theory and Design, 6th Edition and Management. 4th Edition
• Offers a striking new metaphor for managing and leading organizations-based on the principle of fusion (a joining together) rather than fission (a splitting apart or separation)
• Presents practical applications of fusion technologies-doable solutions to real problems-and inspires leadership and change
• Provides a personal, practical bridge to New Science and Systems Theory ideas