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Featured Books on Teams
Guide to Virtual Team Building: 55 team building activities to improve communication, build trust and boost morale of your remote team
COMPLETELY TRANSFORM YOUR VIRTUAL COLLABORATION:
Less Boring, Less Awkward ― More Eventful, More Substantial, More Inspiring
This book provides you with 55 Team Building Activities and 111 Ultimate Ice Breaker Questions to ensure that your remote meetings are more engaging and fun. It will help make your job as a team leader or facilitator much easier.
Discover Tried-and-Tested Team Building Strategies and Expert Tactics to Boost the Morale of Remote Employees With Ease!
Did you know that proper team-building strategies can double the effectiveness of employees?
Being a manager and team leader can be an exhausting job. You are expected to facilitate your superiors’ and your team members' needs while ensuring that everything goes smoothly and that everyone is happy.
Harvard Business Review is reported to have stated that "close work friendships boost employee satisfaction by 50%" and that "people with a best friend at work are seven times more likely to engage fully in their work."
Since we are now faced with a situation where the numbers of virtual teams are gradually increasing, it goes without saying that virtual team building is of great importance.
This book brings you a comprehensive guide that will transform you into an expert team builder and excellent manager.
Inside this book, you will find 55 team bonding activities and 111 ultimate ice breaker questions to ensure that your remote meetings are more engaging and fun. You will learn how to manage your remote team more efficiently and keep everyone satisfied.
The book is written in such a way that within a few minutes, you'll be introduced to new ways of building a strong bond between members of your team. There are a lot of activities in this book, ranging from Laugh and Play Together, Ways to Learn and Grow Together, Ways to Stay Healthy as a Team, Check Ins and Debriefs, and Getting to Know Each Other.
Here is what this remote team building guide can offer you:
Increase your team's productivity with 55 team building activities
Make your remote meetings more engaging with 111 ultimate ice breaker questions
Virtual facilitation tips and advice
Tried-and-tested team-building strategies
Detailed virtual team-building activities preparation guide with special tools you can use
And much more!
If you want to learn the secrets of remote team building and improve your remote team's morale and efficiency with ease, all you need to succeed can be found inside of this book. What are you waiting for?
Call Number: HD66 .D44 2021x
HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams (HBR Guide Series)
Break down the barriers to effective collaboration. For cross-functional projects to work, you need to bring together diverse ideas and resources from across your organization. But office politics, conflicting objectives, and lack of clear authority can get in the way. The HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams provides practical tips and advice to help you collaborate more effectively. Whether you're leading your own direct reports or building a talented group from disparate parts of your organization, you'll discover how to align others' goals and skills so you can solve problems as a team and deliver great results. You'll learn to: Develop a shared purpose Bust departmental silos Lead employees who don't report to you Overcome conflict and turf wars Prevent collaborative overload and fatigue Use the right tools for virtual information sharing Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Call Number: HD66 .H393 2021
Teams That Work: the seven drivers of team effectiveness
In the modern workplace, employees collaborate. Managers are expected to be effective team leaders and employees are expected to be valued teammates. But many teams struggle. Being part of a struggling team can be unpleasant, but it can also hurt your career and waste company resources.In Teams That Work, Scott Tannenbaum and Eduardo Salas present the seven drivers of team effectiveness and the clearest recommendations on what really makes teams great. Applying the lessons they've learned from working with high-stakes, high-risk team situations to any kind of organization, theywill dispel some of the most enduring myths (e.g., can you be both a star and a great team player?), feature the most useful psychological research, and share real-world illustrations of effective teams in action. Readers will find actionable, evidence-based tips for being an effective team leader,a great team member, a supportive senior leader, or an impactful consultant.
Call Number: HD66 .T364 2021
Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance."-Hanlon's RazorOver the past five years, organizations adopted Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams in droves. Think of COVID-19 as pouring gasoline on the fire. The pandemic didn't start a trend as much as it accelerated an existing one. Unfortunately, far too many of us mistakenly view these applications as Email 2.0. As a result, we are missing out on extraordinary opportunities to create more collaborative work environments, increase organizational transparency, reduce manual work, make our work lives less stressful, redefine core business processes, and much more. Blame ignorance, not malice. We have lacked a holistic framework to understand the remarkable power of new collaboration technologies, much less unleash them. At least until now.In Reimagining Collaboration, award-winning author and recognized technology expert Phil Simon provides this essential framework. He advances a new, bold, and holistic model of work-one based upon hubs and spokes. No theoretical text, Simon offers concrete tips for companies and groups on how to transform the way they work.
Call Number: HF5734.7 .S56 2021x
Bridging the Soft Skills Gap by Bruce Tulgan
Solve the number one problem with today's young workforce--the soft skills gap The number one challenge with today's young talent is a problem hiding in plain sight: the ever-widening soft skills gap. Today's new, young workforce has so much to offer--new technical skills, new ideas, new perspective, new energy. Yet too many of them are held back because of their weak soft skills. Soft skills may be harder to define and measure than hard skills, but they are just as critical. People get hired because of their hard skills but get fired because of their soft skills. Setting a good example or simply telling young workers they need to improve isn't enough, nor is scolding them or pointing out their failings in an annual review. However you can teach the missing basics to today's young talent. Based on more than twenty years of research, Bruce Tulgan, renowned expert on the millennial workforce, offers concrete solutions to help managers teach the missing basics of professionalism, critical thinking, and followership--complete with ninety-two step-by-step lesson plans designed to be highly flexible and easy to use. Tulgan's research and proven approach has show that the key to teaching young people the missing soft skills lies in breaking down critical soft skills into their component parts, concentrating on one small component at a time, with the help of a teaching-style manager. Almost all of the exercises can be done in less than an hour within a team meeting or an extended one-on-one. The exercises are easily modified and customized and can be used as take-home exercises for any individual or group, to guide one-on-one discussions with direct-reports and in the classroom as written exercises or group discussions. Managers--and their young employees--will find themselves returning to their favorite exercises over and over again. One exercise at a time, managers will build up the most important soft skills of their new, young talent. These critical soft skills can make the difference between mediocre and good, between good and great, between great and one of a kind.
Call Number: HF5381 .T757 2015
Build an A-Team: play up to their strengths and lead them up the learning curve
What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing, and consulting, Johnson has seen that employees need continuous learning and fresh challenges to stay motivated. The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen by thoughtfully designing people's jobs around the skills they have today as well as the skills they'll need to be even more valuable tomorrow. That's how entire organizations stay competitive in an unpredictable, rapidly changing business environment. In this book, Johnson explains how to become one of those bosses and how to build your A-team by: Identifying what your employees already know and what they need to learn Designing their jobs to maximize engagement and learning Applying a seven-step process for leading each person up their learning curve We all want opportunities to learn, experiment, and grow in our jobs. When our bosses work with us to help us leap to new challenges, the result is a team that knows how to thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Call Number: HD58.82 .J65 2018
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science by Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Staff; National Research Council; Nancy J. Cooke (Editor); Margaret L. Hilton (Editor); Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences Staff
The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by a shift toward collaborative research, referred to as "team science." Scientific research is increasingly conducted by small teams and larger groups rather than individual investigators, but the challenges of collaboration can slow these teams' progress in achieving their scientific goals. How does a team-based approach work, and how can universities and research institutions support teams? "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science" synthesizes and integrates the available research to provide guidance on assembling the science team; leadership, education and professional development for science teams and groups. It also examines institutional and organizational structures and policies to support science teams and identifies areas where further research is needed to help science teams and groups achieve their scientific and translational goals. This report offers major public policy recommendations for science research agencies and policymakers, as well as recommendations for individual scientists, disciplinary associations, and research universities. "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science" will be of interest to university research administrators, team science leaders, science faculty, and graduate and postdoctoral students.
Call Number: Q180.55.G77 N38 2015x
ISBN: 9780309316828
Extreme Teaming: lessons in complex. corr-sector leadership
Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed. Leading experts Amy Edmondson and Jean-Fran#65533;ois Harvey analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management, and inform our understanding of teams. Containing powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global enterprises. The authors demonstrate that the work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries - that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading open innovation; teamwork and collaboration; project management; and cross-boundary work.
Call Number: HD66 .E3265 2017
Inclusify: the power of uniqueness and belonging to build innovative teams
Wall Street Journal Bestseller In this groundbreaking guide, a management expert outlines the transformative leadership skill of tomorrow--one that can make it possible to build truly diverse and inclusive teams which value employees' need to belong while being themselves. Humans have two basic desires: to stand out and to fit in. Companies respond by creating groups that tend to the extreme--where everyone fits in and no one stands out, or where everyone stands out and no one fits in. How do we find that happy medium where workers can demonstrate their individuality while also feeling they belong? The answer, according to Stefanie Johnson, is to Inclusify. In this essential handbook, she explains what it means to Inclusify and how it can be used to strengthen any business. Inclusifying--unlike "diversifying" or "including"-- implies a continuous, sustained effort towards helping diverse teams feel engaged, empowered, accepted, and valued. It's no use having diversity if everyone feels like an outsider, she contends. In her research, Johnson found common problems leaders exhibit which frustrate their attempts to create diverse and cohesive teams. Leaders that underestimated the importance of group coherence and dynamics often have employees who do not feel like they belong; leaders that ignore the benefits of listening to different perspectives leave some people feeling like they cannot be their authentic selves. By contrast, leaders who Inclusify can forge strong relationships with their teams, inspire greater productivity from all of their workers, and create a more positive environment for everyone. Having a true range of different voices is good for the bottom line--it allows for the development of the best, most innovative, and creative solutions that are essential to success. Inclusify reveals the unexpected ways that well-intentioned leaders undermine their teams, explains how to recognize the myths and misperceptions that drive these behaviors, and provides practical strategies to become an Inclusifyer. By learning why uniqueness and belonging are so imperative, leaders can better understand what makes their employees tick and find ways to encourage them to be themselves while ensuring they feel like they are fully part of the group. The result is a fully engaged team filled with diverse perspectives--the key to creating innovative and imaginative ideas that drive value.
Call Number: HD57.7 .J645 2020
Leading Virtual Teams: hold people accountable, build trust, encourage collaboration(HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Leading any team involves managing people, technical oversight, and project administration, but leaders of virtual teams perform these functions from afar.Leading Virtual Teams walks you through the basics of: * Connecting your people to each other--and to the team’s mission * Surmounting language, distance, and technology barriers * Identifying and using the right communication channels Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills withHBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.
Call Number: HD66 .L4364 2016
Management: Take Charge of Your Team
TODAY IS THE DAY, TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR TEAM! Team management is important, but it isn't about being important. It's about being there for your team members when they need you and overseeing the project from a managerial point of view That means that you need to have a lot of skills including the ones shown in this book. Your team can only be as effective as you are. There is nowhere to throw blame when you are a team manager because the buck rests with you. However, when you do succeed as a team manager or leader, what you find is that your team members will follow your lead and will do so with added enthusiasm if they see that you have enthusiasm and vision to get a job done. The idea behind writing this book was to use my experience to help those starting out and to be able to give useful and sound advice. There are many corporate style books on leadership. What makes mine different is that it's written by someone who has been where you are currently standing, and who understands your difficulty with being faced with the job of team leader for the first time. Walk through the pages and learn how it's done. It's actually easier than you may imagine, once you know what it is that you need to be doing. In this book you will learn how to: Effectively communicate with your team Allocate and delegate Identify your teams strengths and weaknesses Develop your coaching skills Manage conflict resolution Improve your coaching skills Become a great leader And much, much more
Call Number: HD57.7 .A52 2015x
Psychological Safety: the key to happy, high-performing people and teams
Both scientific and industry research suggest that paying close attention to psychological safety has tangible benefits, not just to personal health and well-being, but to workplace productivity and performance. In 2015 Google released the findings of some compelling research known as “The Aristotle Project”. In its quest to build the perfect team, Google assessed the factors common to their high-performing teams. They were shocked to find it was not the background, the experience, or the education of the team members that determined the team’s success, but whether psychological safety was present within the team. Most of us understand the importance of physical safety. We protect ourselves and those around us, and know what physical interactions are socially acceptable, helpful, or harmful. Psychological safety, however, is a new frontier. Only now are we beginning to understand its importance and impact, thanks to recent advancements in neuroscience. For example, research shows that a “hit” to our psychological safety can have a deeper and longer-lasting impact than a “hit” to our physical selves. In fact, social rejection has the same impact on the brain as a punch to the face. Over time, the pain associated with a physical attack is difficult or impossible to recall. The memory of social rejection, however, even many years after the fact, can elicit the same strength of emotion as it did at the time of the event. When we experience an attack to our psychological safety, our brain is triggered into a stress response. Our cognitive abilities are compromised. Our higher, logical brain, the one responsible for thinking, creativity, decision-making, and self-control, goes off-line. In this derailed stress state we can find it difficult to concentrate, make decisions, or control our emotions. In a psychologically safe climate, people are not afraid to express themselves; they feel accepted and respected. This openness creates a fertile environment for thinking, creativity, innovation, and growth, and leads to more collaborative relationships and an overall improvement in individual and team productivity. So how do you identify and manage the triggers that threaten your psychological safety and hijack your brain? Based on the latest neuroscience research, the S.A.F.E.T.Y.™ model describes some of the most important social motivators of human behavior. Learn how to implement it in your life and your workplace, to reap the benefits of increased productivity and personal well-being. This revolutionary book offers actionable solutions to key questions that may be holding you (and your team) back from fulfilling your potential: ● Why am I so anxious and stressed? ● Why do I continue to do things I don’t want to do? ● Why do I care so much about what others think of me? ● Why do I self-sabotage? And the most vital question of all: ● Why can’t I change?
Call Number: HD5549.5.P35 R33 2018x
The Team Handbook
This book is a comprehensive resource book that provides everything you need to know to create high performing teams.
Call Number: HD66 .S37 2018
Teaming to Innovate
Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap for teaming to innovate. We describe five necessary steps along that road: Aim High, Team Up, Fail Well, Learn Fast, and Repeat. This path is not smooth. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership.
Call Number: HD66 .E3275 2013
Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal; Chris Fussell; Tantum Collins; David Silverman
What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? THE OLD RULES NO LONGER APPLY . . . When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a decentralized network that could move quickly, strike ruthlessly, then seemingly vanish into the local population. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment, and training--but none of that seemed to matter. TEACHING A LEVIATHAN TO IMPROVISE It's no secret that in any field, small teams have many advantages--they can respond quickly, communicate freely, and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy. But organizations taking on really big challenges can't fit in a garage. They need management practices that can scale to thousands of people. General McChrystal led a hierarchical, highly disciplined machine of thousands of men and women. But to defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq, his Task Force would have to acquire the enemy's speed and flexibility. Was there a way to combine the power of the world's mightiest military with the agility of the world's most fearsome terrorist network? If so, could the same principles apply in civilian organizations? A NEW APPROACH FOR A NEW WORLD McChrystal and his colleagues discarded a century of conventional wisdom and remade the Task Force, in the midst of a grueling war, into something new: a network that combined extremely transparent communication with decentralized decision-making authority. The walls between silos were torn down. Leaders looked at the best practices of the smallest units and found ways to extend them to thousands of people on three continents, using technology to establish a oneness that would have been impossible even a decade earlier. The Task Force became a "team of teams"--faster, flatter, more flexible--and beat back Al Qaeda. BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD In this powerful book, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be relevant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. The world is changing faster than ever, and the smartest response for those in charge is to give small groups the freedom to experiment while driving everyone to share what they learn across the entire organization. As the authors argue through compelling examples, the team of teams strategy has worked everywhere from hospital emergency rooms to NASA. It has the potential to transform organizations large and small.
Call Number: HD66 .M38185 2015
ISBN: 9781591847489
Virtual Teams Across Cultures: create successful teams around the world
"Theresa has examined cultural diversity where it currently happens, in the virtual team. A masterpiece of research, stories and practical advice."- Fons Trompenaars, author of Riding the Waves of Culture.
As work becomes virtual, colleagues in many industries are increasingly collaborating online and across borders. Leading dispersed, cross-cultural teams requires a more aware and reflective approach to leadership, and Virtual Teams Across Cultures provides a blueprint for success for managers of multicultural virtual teams.
This book looks at what makes multicultural virtual teams tick – why they’re different and how to unlock their true potential. Drawing on 25 years of professional experience, academic research and interviews with team leaders around the world, Theresa Sigillito Hollema provides practical frameworks for understanding the dynamics of global teams. Full of real-life examples and actionable advice, this gives leaders a game plan for making sure remote, multicultural teams thrive in today’s connected business world.
Learn how to:
•become more confident working across cultures
•create a team environment where everyone is a valued contributor, regardless of where they are
•turn a team’s cultural diversity into its greatest asset
•focus on connecting people, rather than relying on technology
This book is an inspiring and comprehensive guide for reflective leaders who want to bring out the best in distributed, culturally diverse team
Call Number: HD66 .H655 2020x
Winning Teams Winning Cultures
The practical, time-tested concepts in this book will provide you with benefits on three levels: Personal, Team and Organizational. You will be introduced to a set of universal principles of leadership and life effectiveness that will help you personally be at your best more of the time. Next, you learn how to be a better team leader and team player by gaining an understanding of the eight characteristics of a winning team. Finally, you will learn a proven process to create a winning culture for your group or your overall organization: one that ensures long-term success and a fully engaged workforce. These ideas and principals have been used to advantage by more than one hundred of the Global 1000 CEO's around the world, and by thousands of teams and leaders. Read the book to enhance your leadership and life effectiveness, to build your team or to play a role in creating a winning culture in your organization.
Call Number: HD58.7 .S47 2016x
Fostering Clinical Success by Call Number: RA977.5.M4 I84 2015
Organizational behavior, theory, and design in health care by Call Number: RA971 .B835 2016
Organizational behavior in health care by Call Number: RA971.35 .B67 2016
Primal Teams by Call Number: HD66 .B373 2015
Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers by Call Number: HD66 .M544 2015
