Tools for team leadership delivering the X-factor in team excellence - Huszczo, Gregory E. (Davies-Black Pub., 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index
The need for team leaders at all levels : helping teams help themselves -- Your natural leadership strengths : capitalizing on your knowledge, skills, and personal qualities -- Effective teambuilding : launching or growing your team -- Knowing why the team exists : leading the way to clear goals -- Communicate, communicate, communicate : sharing, listening, and providing feedback -- Problem solving and decision making : establishing defined procedures -- Resolving conflict : moving from playing the blame game to problem solving -- Motivation and coaching teams to success : reinforcing team-oriented behaviors -- The leader as ambassador of team-based change efforts : building diplomatic ties to the organization -- Monitoring and reviving teams : helping your team get unstuck -- Helping a whole team of leaders : Leading leadership teams -- Summary : the learning leader makes a difference : reviewing what you've learned
Collective action--not individual heroism--is what makes teams effective and creates sustainable change in organizations. In this much-anticipated follow-on to his best-seller Tools for Team Excellence, Gregory Huszczo unlocks the secret of what separates the great teams built on collaboration and partnership from the also-rans. 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 master the role of team leader. Grounded in the author's practical frontline experience with hundreds of teams and