Team Management for Professionals

This book has everything that you need to know to set up, and manage a team.

Discover key concepts from psychology, as well as business management, and over 50 practical exercises that you can apply in your context by following the step-by-step instructions.

Inside you’ll find:

• Frameworks outlining the factors underpinning team success, group communication strategies, the stages of team development, ways to enable team members to reach their potential, and task prioritisation methods.
• Discover collaborative exercises that you can run, such as the “Team M.O.T.”, and methods commonly used by professional leaders to resolve interpersonal team conflict.
• Learn to use practical strategic group planning exercises, like the "Sail Exercise", to help a group plan for an upcoming project or challenge.

This modern guide to team management is great for anyone new to managing a team and contains tips that are easily explained that even seasoned team managers will find useful.

Written by Benjamin Stephens, a project manager who has chaired the agile ways of working group at the Cabinet Office in the UK, and who previously commissioned transformation projects across the South of England, you will learn from one of the leading experts in team management.

Before working on Downing Street, Benjamin studied Neuroscience, gaining an M.Sc. from UCL in London, and advised governments on improving their business systems, and learning and development programmes.

“A brilliant resource for those looking to take the next steps in their career.” — Ernst and Young, Learning and Development Manager.

"This guidebook takes the commonly applied framework for team development and embeds practical techniques into Tuckman's system. In this way, it has added to the business management and psychology literature and is the modern guide to team management in a corporate setting." - Freshminds, Learning and Development Consultant

"The concepts are clearly well researched and concisely explained. A great mix of philosophy, applied psychological research, and business management theory, all contained within the chapters on this popular business management guide". - Civil Service Leadership Fast Track Scheme Manager