Preface -- The author -- Team players and teamwork: the new reality -- It's the twenty-first century: team players and teamwork are here to stay -- What makes a team effective or ineffective -- Teamwork: lessons from the past -- A new model of team effectiveness -- The ineffective team -- Trouble ahead: the warning signs -- Building your team -- Effective team players -- The concept of personal style -- Team player styles -- Contributor -- Collaborator -- Communicator -- Challenger -- Team player actions -- Ineffective team players -- The cost of ineffective team players -- The ineffective contributor -- The ineffective collaborator -- The ineffective communicator -- The ineffective challenger -- Dealing with the ineffective team player when it is you -- Dealing with the ineffective team player when it is someone else -- Team players as team leaders -- The contributor as leader -- The contributor leader: the downside -- The collaborator as leader -- The collaborator leader: the downside -- The communicator as leader -- The communicator leader: the downside -- The challenger as leader -- The challenger leader: the downside -- Personal-development planning for team leaders -- Successful team-building strategies for team leaders -- Adaptive team players -- Forming -- Storming -- Norming -- Performing -- How team players adapt to team development -- Analyzing your team's strengths and weaknesses -- Stages and styles: the right mix at the right time -- The goal: style diversity -- Style overload -- Missing perspectives -- How to analyze your team -- Developing a team player culture -- Current methods -- Recommended strategies -- Rx for the development of a team player culture -- Challenges for teams and team players -- The executive challenge -- The management challenge -- The human resources challenge -- The learning and development challenge -- The personal challenge -- Resources: tools for developing teams and team players -- A. Parker team-development survey -- B. Parker team-development survey: summary and action planning guide -- Parker team player survey -- Team player styles -- E. Parker team player survey: normative data report -- References -- Index.