Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Other Strangers (includes one copy each of Tool Kit & book) - Hardcover

Parker, Glenn M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555426093 ISBN 13: 9781555426095

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results! Implement successful cross-functional teams in your organization. This useful tool kit and book are packed with examples and ideas for effective team building.

The book helps you to successfully develop your own cross-functional teams by using advice from more than 100 companies, including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and many others. You'll learn how to set goals for shared commitments and how to overcome barriers and obstacles to teamwork.

You'll learn how to:

• Develop a plan to implement cross-functional teams
• Facilitate the launch of a set of new teams
• Design a training program for team members and leaders
• Conduct training and team building for new and ongoing teams
• Work with the senior management team to gain their support for cross-functional teams . . . and much more!

The tool kit gives you:

• Six invigorating icebreakers
• Five experiential team-building activities
• Five insightful assessment tools
• Five useful abstracts and reports
• Six detailed case studies . . . and more!

The looseleaf binder format facilitates quick preparation. Photocopy what you need, and you're ready! With Parker's help, you'll create collaboration in diverse groups and discover the cross-functional team advantage.

About this title

About the Author

GLENN M. PARKER has a consulting practice based in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. His best-selling book Team Players and Teamwork (Jossey-Bass, 1990) was selected as one of the Best Business Books of 1990 by Tom Brown of American Public Radio.

From the Back Cover

With examples from more than one hundred companies using cross-functional teams successfully—including Merck & Company, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and others—this classic book offers concrete advice and inspiration to team members, team leaders, and senior management."Implementing Parker's recommAndations for high-performance, cross-functional teams is critical to ensuring the success of this new form of teamwork. This book is a must for anyone charged with managing the future of the business."—John P. Reinhardt, director, quality/productivity development group, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Pharmaceutical Group

From the Inside Flap

Uses examples from more than one hundred companies using cross-functional teams successfully—including Merck & Company, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and others—to offer concrete advice and inspiration to team members, team leaders, and senior management.

Reviews

The old maxim that politics makes for strange bedfellows has proved true over the years, and today's workers will agree that business does the same. Consultant Parker probes the nature of corporate groups today; examines their inner workings, successes, and failures; and explains why cross-functional--that is, members from different departments--can influence company products, performance, and profits. Despite its heavy-sounding title, the book is easy to read. Parker cites the usual stellar array of admired corporations, from Federal Express to Xerox, to make his point, and tries to expunge the jargon of the day from his language. A readily accessible guide to get people working together. Barbara Jacobs

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555426093
• ISBN 13: 9781555426095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256