Building Team Power : How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results

Kayser, Thomas A.

ISBN 10: 0071746749 / ISBN 13: 9780071746748

Published by McGraw Hill, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Team Power : How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071746749
• ISBN 13: 9780071746748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Building Team Power is a hands-on, how-to book. It is a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-your-hands-dirty book. It is applications oriented all the way. Don't look for complex psychological, sociological or academic group theory models here. You won't find any. Building Team Power extends and expands the reach of my well-received Mining Group Gold book. This one digs into the crucial behaviors you need to understand and practice to be a collaborative leader. It takes you into the "how-tos" for building collaborative partnerships and facilitating teamwork within your own work group, across work groups, or in task forces, committees, problem-solving teams, executive councils, and the like. It is one thing to say, "We need more and better collaboration around here;" it is another thing to do it. This book fills a void because it shows you how to do it in terms you can understand, with skills you can actually put into practice! Skill improvement in building and facilitating collaborative partnerships and teamwork is what this book teaches.

After reading Building Team Power, you will, I hope, pick out a few collaborative leadership actions and get started by saying: "Hey, I can give these a try because I understand what I am supposed to do. Kayser's book taught me something."

About the Author

Author Profile
Tom Kayser is the President of Kayser Associates, Inc, a Human-Resources consulting firm. He retired from the Xerox Corporation after 30 years of service creating and pioneering numerous organization effectiveness interventions from the executive v.p. level down to first-level managers. He is an expert in organizational behavior and change, group facilitation, team-building design & facilitation, and executive coaching.

Besides authoring the books Building Team Power and Mining Group Gold, he coauthored Changing Organizational Behavior.  Tom is a speaker and the author of articles that have appeared in The California Management Review, Michigan Business Review, Community Banker, LeadershipExcellence, and Leader to Leader.