Teamwork in Ten Days: Building Successful Teams in the Arts, Sports, Business, and Government

Belanger, Thomas Charles

ISBN 10: 1432783815 / ISBN 13: 9781432783815

Published by Outskirts Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teamwork in Ten Days: Building Successful Teams in the Arts, Sports, Business, and Government
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1432783815
• ISBN 13: 9781432783815
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Teamwork in Ten Days: Building Successful Teams in the Arts, Sports, Business, and Government is a self-help book and teambuilding tool. 

It consists of four chapters:

Chapter One: Teams are everywhere, from Ben Franklin's junto to a marriage, bands, groups, orchestras, combos, theatre groups, sports, teams, committees, project teams, task forces, etc. Introduces the team interaction continuum, twenty characteristics of successful teams, and exactly what you should do as a teammate. 

Chapter Two: Successful Musical Groups and Theatre Groups provides the dynamics of these groups, the team interaction continuum and the same twenty characteristics of successful teams, from their view, and how-to info for each one. Individual and Team Assessments and Action Planning included. 

Chapter Three: Successful Sports Teams, briefly describes the team dynamics of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, and soccer, and where they appear on the team interaction continuum. Also describes the same characteristics and what you should do as a teammate. Individual and Team Assessments and Action Planning included. 

Chapter Four: Successful Teams in Business and Government, describes a successful project team at New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. Describes group dynamics, social networking, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, etc., as well as the team interaction continuum, and the twenty characteristics of successful teams in business and government. Individual and Team Assessments included along with action planning.
 

About the Author

Thomas Charles Belanger

Speaker, Author, Facilitator

* Worked as CEO, Director, Project Manager, and Project Team Member, Trainer, Contributing Editor. 

* Facilitated hundreds of project teams in planning hundreds of projects in aerospace, banking, commercial products, consumer products, high tech, insurance, manufacturing, and in the public sector. Introduced project management methodology and discipline in several organizations. 

* Performed as a member of several musical groups and a theatre group. 

* Played on various sports teams. 

Tom is the author of: 

* Teamwork in Ten Days: Building Successful Teams in Music, Theatre, Sports, Business and Government, published in December 2011 by Outskirts Press. 

* The Complete Planning Guide for Microsoft Project published by Butterworth Heinemann, 1997.

* How to Plan Any Project: A Guide for Teams, 2nd edition, which focuses on managing teams and projects, was published in September 1995. It was a PMIŠ Best Seller. 

* How to Plan Any Project:  1st edition, also guides teams in project planning, was published in 1991. Another book, Successful Project Management, also aims at improving project and team management, was published by the American Management Association in February 1995. 

* He is also the author of scores of articles and columns on project management, management, teamwork and related topics.

Mr. Belanger did his graduate work at Tufts University, Northeastern University, and Suffolk University, and earned his M.S. at Suffolk University.  He earned his B.S. at Salem State University, and studied at the University of Maryland extension in Thailand. He is currently a member of the World Future Society, and the Project Management Institute.