Summary
Lawrence Holpp: Managing Teams
BUSINESS TEAMS ARE EFFECTIVE! FOLLOW THESE STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE FAVORABLE LONG-TERM BUSINESS RESULTS!
Tomorrow's successful companies are powering work teams today. Why? Because in countless examples in numerous industries, teams have proven their value by increasing quality and achieving productivity goals. Team management will dramatically increase the likelihood of successfully deploying a highly productive team. This helpful guide includes:
methods and checklists you can use to build the best possible team
tips on the improvements you can expect—and shouldn't expect—from implementing teams
strategies to identify and avoid major obstacles to creating an environment conducive to team formation and performance
Companies around the world are currently finding that employee teams and teamwork contribute to nearly every segment of their business. Team Management will give you the support and confidence you need to start and manage work teams, to evaluate their success and to encourage employees to work in a coordinated and disciplined manner.
Brief content:
Questions you must ask before creating teams
Creating a culture conducive to teamwork
Teams and business strategy
Why organizations struggle with teams
Vision, values, mission and strategy
Team dynamics
New roles for high-performing leaders working groups
Holding team meetings
Teaching teams and team members
How to deal with conflicts and changes
Applied training
Evaluating the team
L. Holpp has spent the past 25 years implementing team-building strategies across a range of diverse organizations to support quality, employee engagement, union-management collaboration, and advanced management innovation. As a consultant, Larry has worked with clients in the manufacturing and service sectors and helped a dozen hospitals implement total quality management programs, and helped create self-managing teams in manufacturing companies as well as financial services companies. He is the author of the Team Turbo Training series, a series of tactical training modules, published by McGraw-Hill (1999), and has published more than 20 articles on teams, quality and training in journals such as Training, The Journal for Quality and Participation and Training & Development.
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