The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams

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Our work with hundreds of public and private sector groups and teams across the United States and Europe suggests that leaders need a practical, well researched model for team building. The Rocket Model provides leaders with sound practical advice on how to improve group and team dynamics. The model is both descriptive and prescriptive it can be used to diagnose team functioning and make specific recommendations regarding how to launch new teams or to improve the performance of more established teams.

Gordon Curphy, Ph.D. is a leading authority on leadership and teams. As such, he spends most of his time helping C-suite and business unit leader executives solve complex leadership challenges. His consulting efforts help top leaders develop business strategies, drive organizational alignment and execution, operate as high performing teams, develop potential successors, and use action learning teams to solve difficult business problems.

Taking a scientist-practitioner approach to leadership, Gordon has spent the last 30 years researching, writing about, practicing, and providing consulting advice on leadership. He is the co-author of Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience (7th ed), the number one selling leadership textbook for the past 17 years. He also co-authored an article in American Psychology on personality and leadership and is currently working on two books with the Hogans on organizational savvy and leadership, groups, and teams. As a practitioner, Gordon has held numerous leadership roles in the United States Air Force and various consulting firms and is known for providing practical, researched-based advice to clients.

Robert Hogan, Ph.D. is an international authority on personality assessment, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. Dr. Hogan s work in personality measurement is distinctive as it is theory based. He is widely credited with demonstrating how personality factors influence organizational effectiveness in a variety of areas - ranging from organizational climate and leadership to selection and effective team performance.

Dr. Hogan is the author of more than 300 journal articles, chapters and books including Personality and the Fate of Organizations (2006). His recent author, co-author, and editing credit also includes: The Hogan Guide (2007), Personality: Theories and Applications (2008), The Handbook of Personality Psychology (1997), The Perils of Accentuating the Positive (2009), the Hogan Personality Inventory, the Hogan Development Survey, the Motives Values and Preferences Inventory, and the Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory.

Dr. Robert Hogan received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in personality assessment. He was McFarlin Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at The University of Tulsa for 17 years. Prior to that, Dr. Hogan was Professor of Psychology and Social Relations at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hogan is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.