Tools for team leadership : delivering the X-factor in team excellence
Title:
Tools for team leadership : delivering the X-factor in team excellence
Author:
Huszczo, Gregory E.
ISBN:
9780891062011
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Palo Alto, Calif. : Davies-Black Pub., 2004.
Physical Description:
xx, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
1. The need for team leaders at all levels -- 2. Your natural leadership strengths -- 3. Effective teambuilding -- 4. Knowing why the team exists -- 5. Communicate, communicate, communicate -- 6. Problem solving and decision making -- 7. Resolving conflict -- 8. Motivating and coaching teams to success -- 9. Leaders as ambassadors of team-based change efforts -- 10. Monitoring and reviving teams -- 11. Helping a whole team of leaders -- 12. Summary : the learning leader makes a difference -- App. A. The exotic orchid role play exercise -- App. B. Jacobson's progressive relaxation technique.
Abstract:
"Tools for Team Leadership introduces the critical "X-factor" in team success - leadership - and delivers an advanced set of tools and strategies to help anyone become an effective team leader. Grounded in the author's practical frontline experience with hundreds of teams and backed by solid research and instruments, it explores the essence of leadership in a team environment. Huszczo identifies the three chief responsibilities of every team leader - raise awareness, generate options, and plan for success - and presents a comprehensive toolbox for use in analyzing a team's strengths and weaknesses, creatively brainstorming strategies and tactics, generating options and facilitating consensus, and implementing action plans that help teams help themselves.".
"Jam-packed with questionnaires, checklists, needs assessments, organizational surveys, sample training modules, and exercises, Tools for Team Leadership covers teambuilding for both new and existing teams, with special help for teambuilding at the top, and includes a self-study review at the end of each chapter to help turn key learning concepts into a plan of action."--BOOK JACKET.