The Front Line Guide To Building High Performance Teams

In life, there are a handful of opportunities that allow us to significantly and directly impact the lives of others in a positive way. Leading a high-performance team is one of the most exciting ¿ people who participate in a high-energy, can-do organization never forget it. In Front Line Guide to Building High Performance Teams, you¿ll learn there is a time and place for team building ¿ and there are times when money spent on team building is wasted. This guide points out the differences and suggests strategies any manager can use to improve the collective performance of workers and volunteers. Based on extensive research into competencies associated with successful team building, the book will empower you to make a positive difference in the lives of many people.

In this book, Alice Healy Sesno's experience as a counselor and administrator provides powerful insights to both counselors and administrators. Start right, stay right, and build a distinguished counseling program in your school. Avoid the mistakes that can put an essential service in jeopardy. Discover how to win respect—and hearts—of students, parents, and other school personnel for a valuable service. With individual strategies for counselors and principals, Dr. Sesno seeks to blend these two professional groups together to forge a counseling program that can withstand budgeting attacks and downsizing demands.

In Space Enterprise - Living and Working Offworld, Dr Philip Harris provides the vision and rationale as to why humanity is leaving its cradle, Earth, to use space resources, as well as pursuing lunar industrialization and establishing offworld settlements. As a management/space psychologist, Dr. Harris presents a behavioral science perspective on space exploration and enterprise. In this his 45th book, Phil has completely revised and updated the two previous editions of this classic, placing new emphasis on the need for more synergy and participation by the private sector. He not only provides a critical review of what is happening in the global space community, but offers specific strategies for lunar economic development. The author analyzes the human factors in contemporary and future space developments, especially relative to the deployment of people aloft. This user-friendly volume offers numerous photographs, diagrams, exhibits, and case studies.

Every leader has human resource management and development responsibilities. Using a behavioural science perspective, Developing High Performance Leaders will enable leaders throughout the various business sectors to increase the yield on their organization's human capital and help their team members achieve their goals. In this instructive book, Philip Harris centres his teaching around five key aspects of the leadership process: human behaviour and performance communications cultural influences organizational relations change management A selection of strategies to take forward into practice are offered to the reader and the text is organized with a view to the leader sharing the learning obtained from this volume. For personal or group growth, each chapter is framed in terms of four "I’s": Introduction, Input, Interaction and Instrumentation, to provide an ideal framework for any adult education endeavour. Developing High Performance Leaders is for all human resource development professionals, supervisors, managers and executives concerned with the career development of themselves and their team.

Governments, payers, and other stakeholders are promoting or even demanding expanded access to care, greater coordination of care, use of health information technology--and maximization of the value, efficiency, reliability, quality, and safety of care, often without increased revenue. An all-new edition of a bestseller, this book provides detailed strategies to help leaders and their organizations address these critical challenges in a changing health care environment. Top experts, including David Bates (Brigham and Women's Hospital), Paul Convery (Baylor Health Care System), and Peter Pronovost and colleagues (Johns Hopkins University), survey current knowledge, describe case studies, and provide invaluable advice on the following urgent topics: * Balancing systems-based solutions and accountability in a safety culture * Identifying and responding to patient safety problems * Training physician and nursing leaders for performance improvement * Engaging patients in patient safety * Ensuring safe, effective, and efficient use of health information technology * Improving management of chronic disease * Implementing, sustaining, and spreading improvement Special Features: * Foreword by world-quality and safety expert Ross Wilson, M.D. * Key messages for a leaders--a global audience of chief executive officers, chief medical officers, chief operations officers, and other health care executives; quality and safety officers; and other clinical leaders--in hospitals, health systems, and other health care settings * Authoritative tutorials on current literature and experience and what's next on the horizon * Detailed case studies of best practices

Real leadership that leads to high engagement, higher performance, and a culture of accountability As president and CEO of Scripps Health, one of America's most prestigious health systems, Chris Van Gorder presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position. While hospitals and health systems nationwide have laid people off or are closing their doors, Scripps is financially healthy, has added thousands of employees (even with a no-layoff philosophy), and has developed a reputation as a top employer. What are the secrets to this remarkable story? In The Front-Line Leader, Chris Van Gorder candidly shares his own incredible story, from police officer to CEO, and the leadership philosophy that drives all of his decisions and actions: people come first. Van Gorder began his unlikely career as a California police officer, which deeply instilled in him a sense of social responsibility, honesty, and public service. After being injured on the job and taking an early retirement, Van Gorder had to reinvent himself, taking a job as a hospital security director, a job that would change his life. Through hard work and determination, he rose to executive ranks, eventually becoming CEO of Scripps. But he never forgot his own roots and powerful work ethic, or the time when he was a security officer and a CEO would not make eye contact with him. Van Gorder leads from the front lines, making it a priority to know his employees and customers at every level. His values learned on the force—protecting the community, educating citizens, developing caring relationships, and ultimately doing the right thing—shape his approach to business. As much as companies talk about accountability, managers seldom understand what practical steps to take to achieve an ethic of service that makes accountability meaningful. The Front-Line Leader outlines specific tactics and steps anyone can use starting today to take responsibility, inspire others, and achieve breakout results for their organizations. Van Gorder reveals how a no-layoff philosophy led to higher accountability, how his own attention to seemingly minor details spurred larger change, and how his own high standards for himself and his team improved morale and productivity. From general strategy to the tiny, everyday steps leaders can take to create the kind of culture and accountability that translates into major competitive advantage, The Front-Line Leader charts a path to better leadership and a more engaged, higher-performing organization.

Here's a step-by-step process to recruit, empower and lead teams. How to Build High-Performance Teams focuses on the how-to keys of team-building-from recruiting the right team members to truly empowering them with authority and responsibility for their decisions and performance. You'll understand how to build trust, confidence, and group work skills, balancing and fine-tuning the team process as you go. You'll learn how to: Build and manage teams that live up to their promise of higher productivity and greater problem-solving ability Maximize team productivity by encouraging group discussio.