Team Basics: Practical Strategies for Team Success (The Extraordinary Team)

This straightforward, illustrated guide takes the mystery out of teams in the workplace. Team Basics covers it all from launching your team, through process and problems, to disbanding, and addresses specialized issues such as dispersed ("virtual") teams, multi-national teams and generational teams. Written in easily digestible sections, readers will be entertained as they learn, and will want to keep a copy on their desks for reference. With smart, hard-hitting tips and techniques to help your team be extraordinary, this book is a necessity for anyone who works with or manages teams.

"Team Basics presents a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to a very complex subject, one that can be put to use immediately in any firm, regardless of size. If your organization is bigger then you are, I highly recommend this very useful book."

Tom Christal, President & CEO, Advantage/Christal "Team Basics promises the fundamentals, yet delivers hundreds of specific tactics that you will want to use right now to help you get the most out of your team. Whether you're tuning up your team, moving your team to other projects, or just a team participant, you need this book.:

Mark S.A. Smith, co-author Guerrilla Negotiating "Whether you are preparing to lead your first team or looking to hone your teaming skills, Team Basics has something to offer everyone. Team Basics is full of easy to use time-tested strategies. If I were teaching a class on teambuilding, I would want this to be the textbook. It is easy to put these words into action."

Patrick C. Kinlaw, Director of Staff Development,

Henrico County Public Schools "Team Basics is truly a must-have for every manager, from supervisor to executive, who believes that high performing teams are crucial to organizational success."

Carol A. Dennis, Manager, Executive Development,

T. Rowe Price Associates "For anyone starting to work with groups, currently working with groups, wanting to be a productive member of a group, or just interested in what the team movement is all about, I can't think of a better book...I'm just mad that she wrote it before I did."

Floyd Hurt, author of Rousing Creativity Kristin Arnold helps teams to be extraordinary. An international speaker and consultant, Kristin specializes in facilitating and training teams to achieve exceptional results, using smooth processes while building cooperative relationships.