Team Member's Survival Guide

The Team Member's Survival Guide is a self-study guide for employees in cross-functional teams, project teams, or empowered work teams, who need tools and assessments to improve their teamwork skills. The Guide can be used by itself or as a companion to the Team Leader's Survival Guide.

Here's how to make working in a team immensely rewarding--instead of intensely frustrating! The team leader who provides little or no direction. . .The meeting that runs in place and never ends. . .The annoying team member you can't stand. . .The stress from your company's constant restructuring. These are just some of the all-too-familiar difficulties and pitfalls facing members of today's work teams. But with the help of this expert, one-of-a-kind guide, you can learn to survive and to thrive in any team situation--from cross-functional teams to empowered work teams. Written by the people who know what makes teams work--Development Dimensions International, trainers and team consultants to 400 of the Fortune 500 companies--the Team Member's Survival Guide is packed with practical activities, steps, assessments, and checklists you can use to improve every aspect of your team skills. Here are tools to help you: Learn to cope with difficult changes in your organization. Become an adaptable, flexible team member. Align yourself with your company's vision and values. Get the management support your team needs. Find smooth ways to deal with difficult team members. Learn the 22 steps that keep teams successful and moving forward. Master each unique stage of team development--from the Pre-Team and New Team phases, to the Mature Team phase. And much more!