How NASA builds teams : mission critical soft skills for scientists, engineers, and project teams / Charles J. Pellerin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pellerin, Charles J. (Charles James), 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States.

Teams in the workplace.

Soft skills.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Every successful organization needs high-performance teams to compete and succeed. Yet, technical people are often resistant to traditional ""touchy-feely"" teambuilding. To improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in ""How NASA Builds Teams""-an approach that is proven, quantitative, and requires only a fraction of the time and resources of traditional training methods. This ""4-D"" process has boosted team performance in hundreds of NASA project teams, engineerin

Contents:

HOW NASA BUILDS TEAMS: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Vision-Moving Your Team's Performance into the Top 20 Percent; How This All Began; NASA's Bottom-Quintile Teams Improve; Teambuilding for Technical Teams; A Broader Perspective on Teambuilding; An Application Summary for this Introduction; Part I: UNDERSTANDING AND ANALYZING CONTEXT; Chapter 1: Think You Can Ignore Context? Hubble's Flawed Mirror Might Wake You Up; Chapter 2: Managing Social Context Manages Technical Performance

Chapter 3: The 4-D SystemPart II: USING 4-D ASSESSMENTS AND REPRESENTATIVE RESULTS FROM NASA; Chapter 4: The 4-D Assessment Process; Chapter 5: NASA's 4-D Teambuilding Results; Part III: 4-D DIAGNOSTICS; Chapter 6: Using the 4-D System to Color Your Personalities; Chapter 7: Using the 4-D System to Analyze Cultures; Chapter 8: Incoherent Project Mindset Colors? Update Your Resume; Part IV: SHIFTING THE CONTEXT; Chapter 9: The Context Shifting Worksheet (CSW); Chapter 10: Red Story-Lines Limit Team Performance; Chapter 11: Manage Your Emotions to Manage Your Team's Energy

Chapter 12: People Need to Feel Appreciated by YouChapter 13: Mine the Gold in Your Shared Interests; Chapter 14: People Need to Feel Included by You; Chapter 15: Building Trustworthy Contexts; Chapter 16: Creating the Future You Want; Chapter 17: Your Team Can't Afford Drama; Chapter 18: Don't Put Good People in Bad Places; Epilogue: Hubble's Legacy; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612188510

9781119198277

1119198275

9781282188518

1282188518

9780470502938

0470502932

OCLC:

457224585