Understand the dynamics of all different types of teams
Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support Them represents the latest in thinking about creating effective teams. The authors present a new “Five C” framework that focuses on the core aspects of team building. The book helps the reader assess how his/her team is performing on each of the 5Cs - context, composition, competencies, change, and collaborative leadership, and discusses options concerning how to improve team performance along each of these dimensions. The book includes:
• A wealth of examples of effective (and ineffective) teams from such companies as Cisco Systems, Bain & Company, and Amazon
• New material concerning how to develop effective entrepreneurial and family teams
• How to manage cross-cultural, virtual, and alliance teams
• How to create a “team building organization”
This book provides the next generation of team leaders, team members, and team consultants with the knowledge and skills they need to create effective and high functioning teams.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: The 5Cs of Team Performance
Chapter 2: Context: The Foundation of Team Effectiveness
Chapter 3: Composition: Putting the Right People on the Team
Chapter 4: Competencies: Team Skills that are Needed for High Performance
Chapter 5: Change Management: How Effective Teams Improve Their Performance
Chapter 6: Collaborative Leadership: The Role of the Team Leader
Chapter 7: Designing Effective Team Building Programs
Chapter 8: Specific Team Building Interventions to Manage Address Team Problems
Chapter 9: Team Building in Temporary, Cross-Cultural and Virtual Teams
Chapter 10: Team Building in Alliance, Entrepreneurial and Family Teams
Chapter 11: Creating a Team Building Organization
Index
