Rapid team deployment : building high-performance project teams / Sandy Pokras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pokras, Sandy.

Series:

Fifty-Minute series.

A fifty-minute series book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Place of Publication:

Menlo Park, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This integrated approach to high-performance team building delivers the how-tos of planning, structuring, recruiting, and improving.

Contents:

""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""ABOUT THIS BOOK""; ""Dedication""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHOR""; ""WELCOME TEAM BUILDERS!""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Objectives Worksheet""; ""PART I Defining Team Direction""; ""TEAM MECHANICS""; ""Team Definition""; ""MEET THE ABC GROUP""; ""EXERCISE: High-Performance Teamwork""; ""STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT""; ""Team Performance Accelerators""; ""TO TEAM OR NOT TO TEAM?""; ""Team Goals""; ""Team Costs""; ""Cost/Benefit Analysis""; ""EMPOWERMENT""; ""What Is Empowerment?""; ""How To Empower and Enable""; ""PLANNING EMPOWERMENT LEVEL""

""EXERCISE: Case Study Team Selection""""RAPID TEAM DEPLOYMENT""; ""Our Theme""; ""Two Examples""; ""How To Do It""; ""THE TEAM ENVIRONMENT""; ""DEFINING TEAM REQUIREMENTS""; ""Team Lifecycle""; ""Team Direction""; ""REQUIREMENTS TECHNIQUES""; ""Requirement Technique #1: Mission Statement""; ""Requirement Technique #2: Customer Requirements""; ""Requirement Technique #3: Team Deliverables""; ""CASE STUDY: ABC's SMARTs""; ""EXERCISE: Team Requirements""; ""MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ROLES""; ""Team Sponsor Functions""; ""TASK VS. TEAM FOCUS""; ""TOP 10 TEAM SPONSOR GUIDELINES""

""UPPER MANAGEMENT'S IMPACT ON TEAMWORK""""Steering Council Function""; ""Ideal World""; ""CASE STUDY: ABC Update""; ""EXERCISE: Management Support Roles""; ""ESTABLISHING TEAM LEADERSHIP""; ""Team Leader Functions""; ""Team Leader Selection""; ""CASE STUDY: ABC Decision""; ""TEAM FACILITATOR""; ""Team Facilitator Functions""; ""CASE STUDY: News From ABC""; ""EXERCISE: Team Leadership""; ""PART II Organizing Your Team""; ""TEAM RECRUITMENT""; ""Team Member Selection""; ""CASE STUDY: ABC Marketing Team Membership""; ""Contracting Team Members""; ""EXERCISE: Team Recruitment""

""CASE STUDY: Team Members""""TEAM CHARTER""; ""General Direction""; ""Membership""; ""Empowerment""; ""ABC's Marketing Team Charter""; ""TEAM CHARTER DEVELOPMENT""; ""Why Bother?""; ""BRIEFING THE TEAM""; ""How to Brief the Team""; ""ROADMAPS""; ""Roadmap Types""; ""Roadmap Types""; ""TASK/IMPLEMENTATION TEAM ROADMAP""; ""PROBLEM-SOLVING ROADMAP""; ""PROCESS IMPROVEMENT ROADMAP""; ""NEW PRODUCT/PROCESS ROADMAP""; ""EXERCISE: Team Briefing""; ""MASTER PLANNING""; ""Strategic Planning""; ""ABC Distribution Team Master Plan""; ""HOW TO PLAN""; ""Master Planning Flowchart""

""EXERCISE: Master Planning""""PRESENTING THE PLAN""; ""Other Planning Tools""; ""TEAM PUBLIC RELATIONS""; ""Team Recognition""; ""How To Do It""; ""PART III Team-Building Dynamics""; ""TEAM KICK-OFF""; ""The Forming Stage""; ""Accelerating Forming Stage Team-Building""; ""BONDING TEAMS""; ""Team Communication Guidelines""; ""TEAM GROUND RULES""; ""CASE STUDY: ABC Distribution Team Ground Rules""; ""TEAM TRAINING""; ""Team Kick-Off Training""; ""Just-In-Time Team Training""; ""HOW TO BREAK MUTUAL TRUST""; ""HOW TO BUILD MUTUAL TRUST""; ""Trust-Building Strategies""

""EXERCISE: Team Training""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4175-2496-0

OCLC:

922967065