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

Thomas Kayser

ISBN 10: 0071746749 / ISBN 13: 9780071746748

Published by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, 2011

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Hardcover. The collaborative team-building guidebook that takes Mining Group Gold one step furtherNow more than ever before, organizations need to build and maintain a culture of trust and collaboration. This updated edition of Building Team Power brings Tom Kaysers important concepts to a new generation of leaders. Read this book and take its lessons to heartyou cant afford not to.Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Lead with LUVA must-read for individuals wishing to build successful teams in todays complex, highly interconnected, and global environments. Having worked directly with Tom over the years, I can confirm that his principles work!Jim Stoffel, Executive Partner, Trillium-Group, LLC, and previously Senior Vice President, Eastman Kodak and Vice President and General Manager, XeroxA well-organized toolkit of ready-to-use techniques to enable fast, cross-silo, teambased problem solving and value creationcritical new capabilities in our increasingly competitive industry!Dr. Jean A. Dames, Senior Manager, Strategic Sales & Leadership Effectiveness, American ExpressTom Kayser is an author worth reading. His book, Building Team Power, is about how to help teams collaborate and win in todays highly competitive marketplace. This is a significant addition to the existing business literature on work team collaboration. Read it and become a better leader.John Vester III, Principal, Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory ServiceTom Kayser delves into the intrinsic values that unleash the full potential of teams.Building Team Power is a must for every leader!Rose Fass, Founder and CEO, fassforward consulting groupBuilding Team Power is to your team what the owners manual is to your car: the onestop resource for how it works, how to maintain it, and what to do first if it breaks down.Ed Muzio, CEO, Group Harmonics, Inc.; author of Make Work GreatAfter 30 years at Xerox and in the course of his consulting work, Tom Kayser discovered a major shift in how people work. The old school of rigid command-and-control management no longer gets results. To stay productive and competitive in todays world, the key word is collaboration. By studying and isolating what makes teams succeed in the workplace, Kayser has developed a system of proven team-building techniques that anyone can apply to his or her own group situations. His step-by-step program shows you how to:Solve problems faster, smarter, and betterDelegate work more effectively and efficientlyManage conflicts and interpersonal issuesBuild mutual trust among your peopleMake wiser decisions at every levelBuilding Team Power is filled with clear examples and powerful exercises to help you put theory into practice. Youll discover seven proven strategies for improving your team, key brainstorming techniques for group meetings, analytic tools for problem solving, and a six-step collaborative model for all occasions. Youll learn how to capture your market, reduce costs, and improve quality by unleashing the untapped, collaborative genius of your people and your teams. Youll find out how to do things right the first time, every time, adding value to your products and services while being more agile and responsive than your competitors. Plus, youll read a fascinating case study of one company dealing with budget cuts in todays tough economy. This is how you unlock the collaborative power of the people around you. The "sequel" to the classic Mining Group Gold offers ideas, tools, and techniques for i Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Team Power: How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results (Hardcover)
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
• Publication Date: 2011
• 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.