Ignition A Guide To Building High Performing Teams

Teams are the fundamental building blocks of today's organizations, yet only 1 in 5 are high performing. Most teams need help, and Ignition provides practical guidance on how to overcome common team challenges. Featured in the book are 12 case studies, complete with off-site designs and step-by-step instructions for facilitating 40 field-tested team improvement activities. Team leader and facilitator support materials, such as downloadable Power Point decks, forms, handouts and relevant articles are also included. The book content is fully integrated with the Team Assessment Survey, which provides teams with benchmarking feedback on performance.

“Rebecca has now documented her perceptive approach to Team Coaching, along with many of the practical and effective exercises that have helped my teams and my personal leadership approach – I’d highly recommend it.” Liz Robson - Head of IS – Homebase, Home Retail Group PLC Why Read This Book? I am a Team Coach with over 10yrs experience in creating High Performing Teams. Now I want to share my strategies with you because I want people to enjoy their work and feel that they are making a valued contribution. Who could benefit from reading this book? Anyone who leads a group of people, who need to work together to get something done. What’s different about my Team Coaching? I give you the exercises that I have already tested with real teams. You can run those exercises with your own teams to gain the same results. This is not a theoretical book and there is no need to pay for psychological profiling or team games like building rafts to float across rivers! I take a quick and practical approach to getting teams to deliver business results. What next? Give it a go! I want you to practice these exercises with your current team and see and feel the results. I want you to become a successful and popular leader of people for the rest of your career. If this book helps then my job is done! Please feel free to share your experiences with me by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting our website www.bromptonassociates.com.

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.

Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders, 3rd Edition is a practical guide for building and sustaining top performing teams. Based on the author’s many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sector, the Third Edition describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them productive. The author clearly illustrates the developmental nature of teams and describes what happens in each stage. Separate chapters are devoted to the responsibilities of team leaders and team members. Problems that occur frequently in groups are highlighted, followed by what-you-can-do sections that offer specific advice. Real-life examples and questionnaires are used throughout the book, giving readers the opportunity for self-evaluation. New to the Third Edition: Discussions of diversity within teams havebeen added throughout the text, focusing on how different ethnic or cultural groups may have differing perceptions of group interactions. Also provided will be specific strategies for ensuring that groups are respectful of these different beliefs while still being as effective as possible. References to the research the text is based on will be added, giving readers the theoretical and research background for the practical, application-based material in the text. More real-life examples and problem-solving skills will be added, including step-by-step directions for becoming a high-performing team. New checklists and self-evaluations will be added, building on those currently included in the text and providing even more information on what kind of leader or team member the reader is.

The best way for a business to succeed is through its people. While there are gains to be had from streamlining processes, reducing costs or making a strategic change, the biggest potential for success comes through how humans collaborate. Specifically, the greatest gains are achieved through high performing teams, and teams of teams. Containing more than 40 tools which can be used in a virtual or in-person coaching environment, Building Top-Performing Teams is a practical guide for leaders, HR professionals, coaches, team coaches and anyone with management responsibility. It covers how to motivate, develop, engage and reward a team of employees with different levels of experience and priorities to achieve outstanding business success. Building Top-Performing Teams includes essential guidance, tools and techniques that show how to promote team ways of working rather than individual-focused processes. It also includes guidance on managing internal team conflict and ensuring that teams are purpose-driven and working towards a shared business goal. Each chapter includes diagnostic questions and reflective practice exercises to allow readers to identify how to apply each element of team development to their workforce. Supported by the authors' experience in organizations such as the BBC, John Lewis, KPMG, Britvic, the NHS and BMW this is essential reading for anyone needing to unlock the value of teams to achieve greater business performance.

At first glance leadership seems like magic. There seem to be so many unknowns. Some say it's more like art than science. That's not true. What many people don't know is that a lot of magic is based on rules. There are best practices, common procedures to follow, acts that everyone replicates and processes every magician knows. You can see those acts and processes in here.

Negotiation is much more than making a deal; it′s a life skill. Negotiation: Creating Agreements in Business and Life explores the theory and practice of negotiation while unpacking how to develop the head, heart, hand, and stomach of a successful negotiator. Authors Brad Winn and Marc Sokol frame negotiation as a dynamic, creative process that can produce lasting positive results for all parties involved. Practical applications, role-play exercises, and cases provide students with ample opportunities to sharpen their negotiation skills to become confident, capable negotiators in the workplace and in everyday life. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.