Building team power : how to unleash the collaborative genius of teams for increased engagement, productivity, and results / Thomas A. Kayser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kayser, Thomas A., 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

xx, 283 p. : ill.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [2011]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The collaborative team-building guidebook that takes Mining Group Gold one step further “Now more than ever before, organizations need to build and maintain a culture of trust and collaboration. This updated edition of Building Team Power brings Tom Kayser’s important concepts to a new generation of leaders. Read this book and take its lessons to heart—you can’t afford not to.” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager ® and Lead with LUV “A must-read for individuals wishing to build successful teams in today’s complex, highly interconnected, and global environments. Having worked directly with Tom over the years, I can confirm that his principles work!” —Jim Stoffel, Executive Partner, Trillium-Group, LLC, and previously Senior Vice President, Eastman Kodak and Vice President and General Manager, Xerox “A well-organized toolkit of ready-to-use techniques to enable fast, cross-silo, teambased problem solving and value creation—critical new capabilities in our increasingly competitive industry!” —Dr. Jean A. Dames, Senior Manager, Strategic Sales & Leadership Effectiveness, American Express “Tom Kayser is an author worth reading. His book, Building Team Power , is about how to help teams collaborate and win in today’s highly competitive marketplace. This is a significant addition to the existing business literature on work team collaboration. Read it and become a better leader.” —John Vester III, Principal, Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Service “Tom Kayser delves into the intrinsic values that unleash the full potential of teams. Building Team Power is a must for every leader!” —Rose Fass, Founder and CEO, fassforward consulting group “ Building Team Power is to your team what the owner’s manual is to your car: the onestop resource for how it works, how to maintain it, and what to do first if it breaks down.” —Ed Muzio, CEO, Group Harmonics, Inc.; author of Make Work Great After 30 years at Xerox and in the course of his consulting work, Tom Kayser discovered a major shift in how people work. The old school of rigid “command-and-control” management no longer gets results. To stay productive and competitive in today’s world, the key word is “collaboration.” By studying and isolating what makes teams succeed in the workplace, Kayser has developed a system of proven team-building techniques that anyone can apply to his or her own group situations. His step-by-step program shows you how to: Solve problems faster, smarter, and better D...

Contents:

The pressure for collaborative leadership and collaborative partnerships in organizations

The call for collaborative leadership : whitewater global markets and transforming organizational structures

The core elements of collaborative partnerships : six ingredients required for success

An integrative framework linking the book's chapters : your pathway to unleashing the collaborative genius of work teams

Seven "how to" collaborative leadership behaviors for building collaborative partnerships

Mutual trust : the heart of collaborative leadership

Decision making : the range of options and the forces impacting your choice of an option

Consensus building : facilitating whole-group support

Conflict management : facilitating seven steps to collaborative conflict resolution

Delegation effectiveness : increasing others' capacity to act

Team problem solving-I : a systematic, collaborative model for all occasions

Team problem solving-II : structured methods for creating, displaying & analyzing problem-solving data

A collaborative leader in action building a collaborative partnership

The budget cut : a case study integrating what's been learned.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612953330

9781282953338

1282953338

9780071750257

0071750258

OCLC:

863709986