Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders - Softcover

Wheelan, Susan A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412913764 ISBN 13: 9781412913768

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

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Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders is a practical guide for building and sustaining top performing teams. Based on the author′s many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sector, the Second Edition describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them productive.  

New to the Edition:  

• Offers necessary tools to help members and leaders work together to achieve high performance
• Enhanced information about the design and management of meetings
• Incorporates real-life examples and questionnaires giving readers the opportunity for self-evaluation  

A bestseller in its First Edition, Creating Effective Teams, Second Edition is sure to be a perfect fit for team leaders and members, trainers, managers, consultants, psychologists, military, and educators. Students enrolled in organizational studies, management, human resources, social psychology, education, group studies, leadership, sociology, and communication courses may also benefit from this bestseller.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan A. Wheelan, PhD, is president of GDQ Associates, Inc. She was professor of Psychological Studies and faculty director of the Training and Development Center at Temple University. She has worked in a number of school, hospital, and clinical settings. Dr. Wheelan received Temple University’s Great Teacher Award in 1992. She is coeditor of The Lewin Legacy: Field Theory in Current Practice and Advances in Field Theory. She coauthored How to Discipline Without Feeling Guilty. Dr. Wheelan is the author of Facilitating Training Groups, Group Processes: A Developmental Perspective, The Handbook of Group Research and Practice, and Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders. She has written numerous articles for publication as well. Dr. Wheelan has provided consultation to a wide variety of organizations. She has led workshops and training seminars on such topics as Executive Development, The Role of the Internal Consultant, Working in Teams, Management Skills, Communication Skills, Dealing With Difficult Employees, Leadership, Conflict Management, and many more. She has been an invited speaker in Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, and throughout the United States. Topics included group and organizational development, diversity, and conflict management.

Review:

"Text's overriding lesson of how to move from 'group' to 'team' is delivered persuasively. Use of Plain English and lack of jargon are highly effective. The two-tier structure (Chs. 1-6 & Chs. 7-10) is the 'hands-on' practical application that my MBA students will need." (James Gosline, Jr.)

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1412913764
• ISBN 13: 9781412913768
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160