Tools for Team Excellence

Tools for Team Excellence
Author: Gregory E. Huszczo
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 089106351X

A hands-on guide for sustained team success Team development is a process, not a program. There is always room for improvement, and in today's competitive marketplace, if you don't continue to improve, you won't survive. Going beyond either the trendy fads or philosophical approaches outlined in most current management literature, Tools for Team Excellence provides a candid look at team based management and a host of hands-on techniques for building, assessing, and improving team performance. Exercises and worksheets, questionnaires and assessment techniques, problem-solving guidelines and troubleshooting tips make this book immediately practical and valuable to team members, managers, consultants, and leaders. Drawn from the author's direct experience in over thirty years of working with teams, Tools for Team Excellence describes and elaborates on seven key components for creating effective teams. It shows how to address each of these key components, ensuring effective teams that will contribute to the success of an organization.

Tools for Team Leadership

Tools for Team Leadership
Author: Gregory E. Huszczo
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2011-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0891063528

Become a team leader - no matter what role you play in your team! This self-study training guide puts the power of participative leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer, consultant, and team member struggling to help teams succeed. Packed with more than eighty new and field-tested tools, Tools for Team Leadership solves the mystery of why some teams - regardless of talent - succeed while others fail and delivers everything you need to master the "X-factor" skills of team leadership.

Tools for Team Excellence

Tools for Team Excellence
Author: Gregory Huszczo
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1473644321

Team development is a process, not a program. There is always room for improvement, and in today's competitive marketplace, if you don't continue to improve, you won't survive. Going beyond either the trendy fads or philosophical approaches outlined in most current management literature, Tools for Team Excellence provides a candid look at team based management and a host of hands-on techniques for building, assessing, and improving team performance. Exercises and worksheets, questionnaires and assessment techniques, problem-solving guidelines and troubleshooting tips make this book immediately practical and valuable to team members, managers, consultants, and leaders. Drawn from the author's direct experience in over thirty years of working with teams, Tools for Team Excellence describes and elaborates on seven key components for creating effective teams. It shows how to address each of these key components, ensuring effective teams that will contribute to the success of an organization.

Everyone Deserves a Great Manager

Everyone Deserves a Great Manager
Author: Scott Jeffrey Miller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1982112077

Learn how to become a great manager in this Wall Street Journal bestseller from the leadership experts at FranklinCovey. The essential guide when you make the challenging yet rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager includes field-tested tips, techniques, and the top advice from hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized by the four main roles every manager fills, this must-read guide focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change to success. No matter what your current problem or time constraint, pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset by developing people skills and clarity through straightforward advice. Dive into common managerial tasks like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, with useful worksheets and a list of questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.

Collective Excellence

Collective Excellence
Author: Mel Hensey
Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780784405468

Mel Hensey examines teamwork in the engineering workplace, offering team members at all levels tips, techniques, and precautions for better management and optimum productivity.

Meeting Excellence

Meeting Excellence
Author: Glenn M. Parker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 111804097X

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 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

The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work

The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work
Author: William M. Ferriter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2020
Genre: School improvement programs
ISBN: 9781760941680

"In The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work, author William M. Ferriter provides educators with a collection of tools and resources designed to strengthen the practice of collaborative teams. Teachers working in a professional learning community (PLC) have the capacity to improve learning for every student; however, teacher teams face many challenges while striving to make a meaningful impact on learning. The tools in this book help educators combat the problems that teams encounter and provide an explicit structure for learning teams. Ferriter organizes the book around the four critical questions of PLCs, and each chapter thoroughly explores core behaviors that efficient teams require and templates for extending the work. By reading this book, educators will learn how to navigate the challenges their teams face by receiving targeted support"--

The Ideal Team Player

The Ideal Team Player
Author: Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119209617

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

The Business of Excellence

The Business of Excellence
Author: Justin Hughes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2016-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1472930231

"A vivid, compelling and highly readable insight into building world-leading teams and organizations." - Dr Catherine Raines, Chief Executive, UK Trade & Investment The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The author, Justin Hughes, brings an unusual mix of experience and insight, having worked as a management consultant to some of the world's most successful organizations, in addition to having served for 12 years as a military fighter pilot, where he became Executive Officer on the RAF Red Arrows. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth, and are illustrated with insights, interviews and case studies from the military, sporting and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations, focusing on: · People: the primacy of attitude over skills · Capability: building alignment before setting people free · Delivery: a process to close the gap between desired and actual outcomes · Learning: how to accelerate performance in real time · Leadership: exhibiting a set of behaviours such that others choose to follow · Risk: avoiding the victory of compliance over outcomes. In The Business of Excellence, Justin deconstructs the drivers of high performance with a rare clarity, insight and accessibility, to illustrate and explain tangible tools and methods, all of which can be applied by readers in their own teams and organizations.

Unleashing Excellence

Unleashing Excellence
Author: Dennis Snow
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2009-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470503807

A step-by-step guide to designing and implementing an amazing customer service culture In today's competitive business environment, keeping customers happy is the key to long-term success. But some businesses provide much better customer service than others. It's not always clear what works and what doesn't, and implementing new customer service practices midstream can be a difficult, chaotic task. Business leaders who want to transform their business culture into one of customer service excellence need reliable, proven guidance. Unleashing Excellence gives you practical tools and step-by-step guidance tailored to your company's individual customer service needs. It shows you how to navigate your teams through every step of the implementation process to achieve true customer service excellence. The book covers the training and education of your group, how to measure the quality of your service, how to build a culture of personal accountability, and how to recognize excellence and reward it. Fully revised to include updated information on the latest tools and best practices, as well as the stories and lessons learned from those organizations that have used the process described in the book. Offers proven best practices for designing and implementing an excellent customer service culture Simple format divides content into nine "leadership actions" that guide you through a step-by-step process Shows you how to build a common customer service vision for your entire organization Customer service is vital to the survival of your business. If you want to move your organization's customer service practices from good to great, Unleashing Excellence is the key.