Teamwork Resources

Mastering The Art of Creative Collaboration: Robert Hargrove

"Hargrove is a business guru par excellence. He's inspiring-and he gets bottom-line results." - Rene Jaeggi, Chairman, Adidas. Creative collaboration makes the impossible, possible. It represents a whole new possibility-that of reaching goals and aspirations that were previously unattainable on an individual basis. It's what happens when traditional rivals bring their talents together and allow the creative genius to bloom-for instance, Kodak, Fumi, and Canon worked together to create the new APS camera and film technology that is revolutionizing the consumer camera market. But all too often collaboration stifles creativity. This exciting book- by renowned speaker, consultant and business coach Robert Hargrove-takes collaboration way beyond its traditional frontier and focuses on its creative uses-something that is often left behind when collaboration is mandated. Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration offers tradition shattering advice that gives readers the tools to make any collaborative activity creative, productive, and rewarding.

Leading Self-Directed Work Teams: A Guide to Developing New Team Leadership Skills: Kimball Fisher

Featured by Business Week, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal as the cutting edge of corporate management, self-directed work teams (SDWTs) are rapidly replacing traditional boss-driven organizations whose entrenched autocratic management styles have become painfully obsolete. In major companies like Kodak, Apple, Walmart, and Honeywell, SDWTs have transformed personnel into a creative and competitive workforce. Leading Self-Directed Work Teams reveals how supervisors in any company-large or small-can take advantage of the leadership skill that make and keep major corporations competitive. Focusing on hundreds of practical, time-tested examples, the author explains innovative practices such as Kodak's 13 Room, where a division created its own board of directors comprised of team members who assumed leadership of the business. This book also examines team leader practices learned from Procter & Gamble experiments-managing by principle rather than by policy and setting boundaries that change as the team matures. In addition, this practical, step-by-step guide explains the intricacies of helping traditional supervisors change to SDWT leaders with: A weekly activity guide to help team leaders remember critical activities; Easy-to-access tips and checklists summarizing key concepts and strategies; A special chapter focusing on "3 days in the life of a team leader"; Practical solutions for typical team leader problems.

Empowered Teams: Creating Self-Directed Work Groups That Improve Quality, Productivity, and Participation: Richard S. Wellins, William C. Byham (Contributor), Jeanne M. Wilson (Contributor)

Organizations of all kinds are recognizing the value of empowering employees through teams, and this book provides the frank answers to questions about how they work, what makes them effective, when they are useful, how to get them going, and how to maintain their vigor and productivity over the long haul. Drawing on a survey of over 500 organizations and an in- depth study of 28 companies, the authors provide a blueprint for successful self-directed teams, offering advice on overcoming the organization's initial resistance to change, selecting team leaders and team players, defining roles, and training the team.

Inside Teams: How Twenty World-Class Organizations Are Winning Through Teamwork: Richard S. Wellins, William C. Byham (Contributor), George R. Dixon (Contributor)

Teams have been used effectively as a management tool to reengineer companies, to implement total quality management, to develop and complete projects, and to coach other employees. The authors variously have cowritten such popular works as Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment (1992) and Empowered Teams (1991), and now they demonstrate how teams have been used successfully in these 20 in-depth, instructive case studies that show why or when a team approach should be considered, what problems can result, what successes should follow, and what lessons will be learned. The authors provide valuable information for managers considering the teamapproach and for employees who might be selected as team members.

Team Players and Teamwork: The New Competitive Business Strategy: Glenn Parker

Scores of studies document the success of teams in today's workplace, and countless books describe the inspirational leaders who created them. But the team player remains a mystery. Glenn Parker identifies four styles of team players who are critical to an effective, dynamic team. This essential handbook helps leaders maintain their competitive advantage through team play.

Corporate Culture Team Culture: Removing the Hidden Barriers to Team Success: Jacalyn Sherriton and James L. Stern

Management consultants Jacalyn Sherriton and James L. Stern contend that many business leaders outwardly embrace the team concept while actually clinging to the old command-and- control philosophy. This immediately dooms the cooperative spirit they profess to support and ultimately threatens the successful operation they expect from their companies. Corporate Culture/Team Culture: Removing the Hidden Barriers to Team Success offers the duo's practical advice for overhauling corporate infrastructures to ensure that teamwork is more than a buzzword.