Build Effective Teams (Leadership Resources)

A strong team is about successful collaborations or dreams with deadlines. They are places of action not just think-tanks or retreats ... they make and create great things.

Description:

  • Facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation to achieve results.

Abilities:

  • Environment of collaboration and cooperation to achieve results.

This is shown by having:

  • The ability to attract talented people to the team.
  • Collaborative and effective working relationships with people of diverse talent.
  • Focus on the process as well as the product.

The Practices and Skills may include:

  • Team approach to planning.
  • Team members understand themselves and others.
  • Conflict management and/or resolution.

Tools:

  • Project/program planning templates and defined planning process.

Leadership Resources:

Print Internet Other
  • Blanchard, K.C. (2009).  The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams. New York:  Harper Collins.
  • Hammond, S.A. (1996).  The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry.  Bend, Oregon:  Thin Book Publishing Co.
  • Kahane, A.  (2004).  Solving Tough Problems:  An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities.  San Francisco, CA:  Berret-Koehler, Inc.
  • Lencioni, P.  (2005).  Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of Team:  A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers and Facilitators.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.
    
Last Updated
Wed, 02/06/2019 - 11:18