Team leadership : theories, tools and techniques / Drikus Kriek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kriek, Drikus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Randburg : KR Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

If you're a team leader asking the question: How do I make my team better?, then Team Leadership is the book that provides the answers.Team Leadership will assist team leaders and members to become more effective by helping them to understand teams better. This book brings together theories and research on team development, team functioning, managing teams, team growth and more! It also describes tools and techniques that can be used to raise the performance levels of teams and help them to function optimally. Team Leadership is different from the many other books offering tools for teams, in that: It gives insight into team behaviour from an academic point of view and especially what current science tells us what works well to improve teams.  It links to practice in its aim to be practical and helpful in daily organisational life.  It gives leaders an opportunity to learn and grow, and therefore also has a developmental focus. It offers a careful selection of theories, tools and techniques to be applied in many contexts and at various stages of a team's development.Team Leadership is one of the most comprehensive books available on the science of team development, offering practical insights into:Developmental Frameworks * Constituent Frameworks * Team Assessment * Team Design * Team Roles * Team Tasks * Teamwork * Conflict Management * Communication * Emergent States * Motivational States * Motivation Theory * Team Leadership * Tasks of Team Leaders * Coaching * Teambuilding * And More!Prof Drikus Kriek is Deputy Dean for Pedagogy and Director of the Executive PhD at the IEDC-Bled School of Management in Bled, Slovenia. He is Associate-Professor of Leadership at the IEDC where he was instrumental in establishing the recently launched Team Development Institute. Previously he was Director of the Leadership Development Centre at Wits Business School of the University of the Witwatersrand and holds an Associate- Professorship in Human Resource Management and Leadership at WBS. Drikus consults in the field of Organisation Development and has been involved in team development, management education projects, lecturing and leadership development programmes to a variety of local and international organisations with projects in Slovenia, Russia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Namibia, Botswana, Ghana, Latvia, The Netherlands and Australia.

Contents:

COVER

TITLE PAGE

ENDORSEMENTS

COPYRIGHT PAGE

TITLE PAGE 2

HENRY FORD QUOTE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

What makes this book different from others?

The structure of the book

CHAPTER 1: DEVELOPMENTAL FRAMEWORKS

1. Linear development framework

2. Alternative five-stage linear frameworks

3. Recursive processes

4. Punctuated equilibrium model

5. Integrated framework

CHAPTER 2: CONSTITUENT FRAMEWORKS

6. Hierarchical components

7. Input-process-output process

8. Moderating components

9. Internal mediating components (IMOI)

10. Integrated components

CHAPTER 3: ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT

11. External context

12. Internal context

13. Organisational culture

14. Culture: Reinventing organisations

15. Value chain

CHAPTER 4: TEAM ASSESSMENTS

16. Composition assessment

17. Climate assessment

18. Assessment of effectiveness

19. Team diagnostic survey

20. Subjective analysis

CHAPTER 5: TEAM DESIGN

21. Types of teams

22. Mandate

23. Team composition

24. Normative team design

25. Diversity

CHAPTER 6: INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS

26. Personality type assessment

27. Personality trait assessment

28. Emotional intelligence assessment

29. Strengths Finder

30. Style assessment

CHAPTER 7: TEAM ROLES

31. Belbin's team roles

32. Margerison and McCann's teammanagement profile

33. Kets de Vries' archetypes

34. Team role knowledge

35. Lessem's integrators

CHAPTER 8: TEAM TASKS

36. Classification of tasks

37. Formulation of tasks

38. Behavioural processes

39. Generic tasks

40. Job characteristics model

CHAPTER 9: TEAMWORK

41. Teamwork "Big Five"

42. Dimensions of teamwork

43. Facilitation of teamwork

44. Liberating structures

45. Red teaming.

CHAPTER 10: DIVERGING TECHNIQUES

46. Brainstorming

47. Attribute exploration

48. Checklists

49. Semantics

50. Representational techniques

CHAPTER 11: CONVERGING TECHNIQUES

51. Screening techniques

52. Decision-making techniques

53. Normative decision-making model(Vroom-Yetton-Jago)

54. Biases, heuristics and logical fallacies

55. Common decision-making pitfalls

CHAPTER 12: CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

56. Types of conflict

57. Difficult team members

58. Thomas-Kilman dimensional model

59. Sequential-contingency perspective ofconflict

60. Crucial conversations

CHAPTER 13: COMMUNICATION

61. Communication patterns

62. Types of interaction

63. Structural dynamics

64. Agile teams

65. Virtual team communication

CHAPTER 14: EMERGENT STATES

66. Cognition

67. Learning

68. Affect

69. Flow

70. (A)CIBART

CHAPTER 15: MOTIVATIONAL STATES

71. Confidence

72. Trust

73. Safety

74. Cohesion

75. Interdependence

CHAPTER 16: MOTIVATION THEORY

76. Needs-based motivation

77. Expectancy theory

78. Self-determination theory

79. Equity theory

80. Nudging

CHAPTER 17: TEAM LEADERSHIP

81. Team leadership

82. Dynamic team leadership

83. Traditional leadership theory

84. Participative leadership

85. Barling: "The Science of Leadership"

CHAPTER 18: TASKS OF TEAM LEADERS

86. Functional leadership tasks

87. Leading change

88. Leading personal change

89. Disciplines of action

90. Implementation techniques

CHAPTER 19: COACHING

91. Individual coaching

92. Adjusted individual coaching models

93. Team coaching: Peter Hawkins

94. Team coaching: Hackman and Wageman

95. Integral coaching model

CHAPTER 20: TEAMBUILDING

96. Integrated model of teambuilding

97. Process of teambuilding

98. Focus of teambuilding.

99. Activity-based teambuilding

100. Positive approaches to teambuilding

LIST OF REFERENCES

INDEX

BACK COVER.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-86922-773-5

OCLC:

1076808429