Building a High Performance Team
Building a High Performance Team
Publication Date: 27 January, 2009
Available in all formats
Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
ISBN: 9781849281409
ISBN: 9781849281409
Price: INR 2094.75
Description
Table of contents
This book will help you to create a strong team. It is designed to assist you in understanding the characteristics of a high-performance team, to help you assess where your team stacks up and to develop a plan of action for realising team potential.
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Characteristics of a High-Performance Team
This book will help you to create a strong team. It is designed to assist you in understanding the characteristics of a high-performance team, to help you assess where your team stacks up and to develop a plan of action for realising team potential.
Table of contents
- Building a High-Performance Team
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: CHARACTERISTICS OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAM
- A team or a group?
- Definition of a team
- So how do you make people who prefer to work on their own want to be part of a team?
- Lessons from geese
- Fact 1
- Lesson
- Fact 2
- Lesson
- Fact 3
- Lesson
- Fact 4
- Lesson
- Fact 5
- Lesson
- Benefits of team working
- The role of the team leader
- How is your team performing now?
- Skills and knowledge
- Work methods
- Leadership
- Climate
- Rate your own work team
- Work methods
- Skills and knowledge
- Climate
- Activities to undertake with your team
- Summary
- CHAPTER 2: THE STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT
- That uncomfortable feeling
- The stages of team development
- Which stage is your team at?
- In first gear
- In second gear
- In third gear
- In fourth gear
- Team quiz
- Activity to complete with your team
- Summary
- CHAPTER 3: ROLES PEOPLE PLAY IN A TEAM
- An effective team
- Our behaviour preferences
- Recognising the different types
- Effective teams
- So what can you do to manage the roles people take in a team?
- Activity to undertake with your team
- Summary
- Answers
- CHAPTER 4: CREATING A TEAM VISION AND A SET OF VALUES
- Why create a team vision?
- Vision and values in their context
- Developing a vision of the future
- Developing a vision
- Team values
- Identifying team values
- Values into behaviours
- Another activity to undertake with your team
- Summary
- CHAPTER 5: EFFECTIVE TEAM MEETINGS
- How effective are your team meetings?
- Team meeting preparation checklist
- Defining the purpose of the team meeting
- Establishing the agenda
- Chairing the team meeting
- Encouraging participation at team meetings
- Subgrouping
- Round robin
- Use brainstorming principles to generate ideas
- Mind Mapping®
- Post-it® notes
- Making robust decisions
- Step 1: Define the problem
- Step 2: Generate options to overcome the issues
- Step 3: Evaluating the options
- Step 4: Select the option(s)
- Step 5: Implement the option(s)
- Step 6: Monitor and review
- Evaluating your current team meetings
- Another activity to undertake with your team
- Summary
- CHAPTER 6: DEALING WITH CONFLICT IN A TEAM
- Conflict can be healthy
- Conflict between the team leader and a team member
- Approaches to conflict management
- Which approach do you take?
- What is the best approach?
- Conflict between team members and outside the team
- Stage 1: Spot the signals
- Stage 2: Plan the response
- Stage 3: Implement the response
- Stage 4: Review the response
- Conflict about the future direction of the team
- Where is the team now?
- Where do we want to be?
- How will we get there?
- Tools and techniques
- Summary
- Answers
- CHAPTER 7: CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAM WORKING
- The importance of cross-functional team working
- Being aware of the political influences in cross-functional teams
- Identifying stakeholders
- Taking account of the stance stakeholders may take during change
- Recognising team-working issues in a cross-functional team
- Gaining feedback from members of the cross-functional team
- Suggestions to improve cross-functional team performance
- Cross-functional team effectiveness
- Identifying blockages to effective cross-functional team working
- What actions do you suggest to improve team performance in these areas?
- Another activity to undertake in your cross-functional team meetings
- Summary
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GLOSSARY
- ITG RESOURCES
- Other Websites
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- Toolkits
- Best Practice Reports
- Training and Consultancy
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