The Team Handbook Third Edition - Softcover

Peter R Scholtes; Brian L. Joiner; Barbara J Streibel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884731260 ISBN 13: 9781884731266

Publisher: Goal/QPC, 2018

Synopsis

The Team Handbook is the foremost resource on teamwork for both leaders and team members. Having sold over 1,300,000 copies of the first editions, the third edition offers new tools and strategies to help teams work well together.

This book is featured in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten. This updated best-selling, comprehensive resource book provides everything you need to create high performing teams.In addition, book purchasers will be able to download electronic versions of forms and templates found in the book for use within their organization!

The updated third edition, revision 2, published by GOAL/QPC in 2018, provides information on the context teams need to be successful. Organizations using teams to improve efficiency and better serve customers will find information on how to start quality initiatives such as Six Sigma or Lean. New information on different types of teams, and new tools and strategies for leading change are covered as well. Several new tools have been added to help teams work well together: affinity diagrams, prioritization matrices, effort/impact grids, new planning tools, and additional information on effective presentations.

The Team Handbook Third Edition contains a brief description of the Six Sigma improvement method DMAIC, and highlights the methods and strategies that are useful in Lean. Also included is a new strategy for using designed experiments to identify and control sources of process variation. The book includes tools and techniques that go beyond the basics such as creativity tools, force-field analysis, and information to help leaders manage project pipelines.

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GOAL/QPC

Since 1995 GOAL/QPC has been a leader in the world of Quality Management. GOAL/QPC's concisely written pocket guides, known as Memory Joggers, enable people at all organizational levels to learn and apply tools, methods and processes that are critically needed to attain world-class organizational excellence. With over 12M copies in circulation, our customers value our Memory Joggers as stand-alone learning resources or for use in a training environment. Made popular with our trademark format of "What is it, What does it do, How do I do it?" , published in a pocket sized spiral binding, users can quickly find and acquire knowledge and insight from the leading edge book content.

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From Chapter 1: What has to be in place for teams to work well, key elements of a successful business strategy, and teams and organizational change.

About this edition

• Publisher: Goal/QPC
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1884731260
• ISBN 13: 9781884731266
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400