Do You Really Need a Team? E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 23

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Despite all of the attention and accolades that organizations place on teams, they are not always the most efficient way to meet a business challenge. It's expensive and time consuming to launch a team, and it's a full-time job to lead a team toward achieving organizational objectives. This guidebook was written to help managers determine if a team is the right tool for meeting a business goal, and explains potential obstacles and challenges to forming a team that can operate at its full potential.

Leseprobe

Contents

Teams — Fast Track or Trendy Trap?

How Teams Work

Teams Are Good for Complex Tasks

Teams Are Good for Innovation

The Way We Work

Individual

Workgroup

Collaborative Workgroup

Team

High-performance Team

If You Need a Team, You Need Support

Assessing Your Organization’s Support for Teams

Go Team

Suggested Readings

Background

Key Point Summary

Lead Contributors

Ideas into Action Guidebooks

Aimed at managers and executives who are concerned with their own and others’ development, each guidebook in this series gives specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership problem.

LEAD CONTRIBUTORS Michael E. Kossler Kim KanagaGUIDEBOOK ADVISORY GROUP Victoria A. Guthrie Cynthia D. McCauley Russ S. MoxleyDIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS Martin Wilcox EDITOR Peter Scisco WRITER Janet Fox DESIGN AND LAYOUT Joanne Ferguson CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS Laura J. Gibson  Chris Wilson, 29 & Company

Copyright ©2001 Center for Creative Leadership.

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

CCL No. 412

ISBN-13: 978-1-882197-66-8

ISBN-10: 1-882197-66-6

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The Ideas into Action Guidebook Series

This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) has generated in the course of more than thirty years of research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared—in a way that is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and working together to understand and generate practical responses to today’s leadership and organizational challenges.

The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL’s mission to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. We think you will find the Ideas Into Action Guidebooks an important addition to your leadership toolkit.

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