Teambuilding - How to turn uncohesive groups into productive teams

Teambuilding means shaping your people into a productive force. Seen in another way, it's what you get when Brazilians play football, the Berlin Philharmonic plays Beethoven, or your kids give their all in the school’s nativity play. If you are looking for this team effectiveness, this is the right eBook for you.

In organizations where there is no teamwork, one and one will always equal the same: two separate ones or one single two. But in organizations which have discovered the pluses of teamwork, one and one adds up to more. Like Or Or Or 2Or 10The clever word for this is “synergy”. It means getting more for your money than what each part costs. Seen in another way, it’s what you get when Brazilians play football, the Berlin Philharmonic plays Beethoven, or your kids give their all in the school’s nativity play. It’s also what you’ll get when you apply the skills of teambuilding to your team at work.

Teambuilding means shaping your people into a productive force. It means encouraging them to work co-operatively for and with each other. It means getting them to share, not just “things” but feelings too, such as each other’s successes and each other’s failures. It means letting them grow beyond your control so that they can develop their own special magic. When you transform a group of people from a group of individuals into a winning team, you create something unique and utterly unforgettable.

Preface

1 The Nature of Teams
1.1 What is a Team?
1.2 The Origins of Teams
1.3 Successful Teams
1.4 The Emergence of the Workplace Team
1.5 Teams Are Special
1.6 Team Development
1.7 The Laws of the Team
1.8 Synergy
1.9 Sam’s Wagon
1.10 Key Points

2 Team Development
2.1 The Natural Life of Teams
2.2 Forming
2.3 Storming
2.4 Norming
2.5 Performing
2.6 Disbandment
2.7 Helping Teams Grow
2.8 Key Points

3 Teamwork
3.1 Sharing
3.2 Asking for Help
3.3 The 3 A’s
3.4 Valuing Others
3.5 Giving Feedback
3.6 Building on Others
3.7 Taking Risks
3.8 A Friendly Climate
3.9 Key Points

4 Team Cohesion
4.1 Team Type
4.2 Team Size
4.3 Team Structure
4.3 Tall Structures
4.5 Team Affinity
4.6 Team Make-Up
4.7 Team Conformity
4.8 Team Interaction
4.9 Key Points

5 Threats to Teamwork
5.1 Individualism
5.2 Stars
5.3 Passengers
5.4 Gender
5.5 Culture
5.6 Cliques
5.7 Unresolved Conflict
5.8 Lack of Team Rewards
5.9 The Route to Expulsion
5.10 Key Points

6 Team Leaders
6.1 Team Leaders
6.2 The Task
6.3 Task Orientation
6.4 The Team
6.5 Team Orientation
6.6 The Individual
6.7 Sacrifices
6.8 Balance
6.9 Leadership Style
6.10 Key Points

7 Team Roles
7.1 The Co-ordinator
7.2 The Go-fer
7.3 The Relater
7.4 The Maverick
7.5 The Observer
7.6 The Checker
7.7 The Moralist
7.8 The Winner
7.9 The Leader
7.10 Role Fit
7.11 Key Points

8 Team Meetings
8.1 Manage Your Meetings
8.2 Vampire Meetings
8.3 Leave Your Ego at the Door
8.4 Using the Triple A’s
8.5 A Good Discussion
8.6 “Did I Miss Something?”
8.7 Dialogue
8.8 Solving Problems
8.9 Entrenchment
8.10 Groupthink
8.11 Complacency
8.12 Waigaya
8.13 The Talking Stick
8.14 When All Else Fails
8.15 Key Points

9 From Unshared Certainty To Shared Uncertainty
9.1 Unshared Certainty
9.2 Loose Links
9.3 Shared Purpose
9.4 Team First
9.5 Performing Together
9.6 Interdependence
9.7 Shared Uncertainty
9.8 Key Points

10 Teambuilding Exercises
10.1 Icebreakers
10.2 The Team Exercise
10.3 Team-Building Exercises
10.4 Competitive Team Games
10.5 Adventure Exercises
10.6 Team Projects
10.7 Team Performance
10.8 Key Points

Web Resources on Teambuilding

Profile of Author Eric Garner
Eric Garner is an experienced management trainer with a knack for bringing the best out of individuals and teams. Eric founded ManageTrainLearn in 1995 as a corporate training company in the UK specialising in the 20 skills that people need for professional and personal success today. Since 2002, as part of KSA Training Ltd, ManageTrainLearn has been a major player in the e-learning market. Eric has a simple mission: to turn ManageTrainLearn into the best company in the world for producing and delivering quality online management products.

Profile of ManageTrainLearn
ManageTrainLearn is one of the top companies on the Internet for management training products, materials, and resources. Products range from training course plans to online courses, manuals to teambuilder exercises, mobile management apps to one-page skill summaries and a whole lot more. Whether you’re a manager, trainer, or learner, you’ll find just what you need at ManageTrainLearn to skyrocket your professional and personal success.

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