Beyond Team Building

Create a team-building organization In business, in sports, and even within families, effective teamwork is a key to success. This continues to be true even in this era of virtual teams and special scenarios that complicate the team environment. Beyond Team Building is a distillation of decades of wisdom on the best ways to assess team effectiveness, identify appropriate interventions, and bake teamwork into the culture of your organization. Learn the five dimensions of effective teamwork, how to assess your team's performance in each dimension, and what to do if you want to see better results through team improvement. Context – Create an environment that promotes flourishing teams Composition – Build teams that work well together and challenge one another Competencies – Identify skills that can take team performance to the next level Change – Promote development even in well-oiled teams for better results Collaborative Leadership – Give team leaders the edge they need These "5 Cs" of effective teamwork can infuse new life into teams of all kinds. Self-assessment surveys and practical intervention tools make it easy for you to determine where your team stands and see the path forward to greater heights. Even temporary teams and virtual teams will benefit from these insights. Experience—and the examples in this book—shows that ineffective teamwork can act as a throttle to organizations and groups large and small. Team leaders, team members, and teamwork consultants can create high-functioning teams with the core knowledge and focused guidance in Beyond Team Building. Team building can and should become ingrained in the day-to-day operations of your organization. This book will show you how! Understand the dynamics of all different types of teams Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support Them represents the latest in thinking about creating effective teams. The authors present a new “Five C” framework that focuses on the core aspects of team building. The book helps the reader assess how his/her team is performing on each of the 5Cs—context, composition, competencies, change, and collaborative leadership, and discusses options concerning how to improve team performance along each of these dimensions. The book includes: • A wealth of examples of effective (and ineffective) teams from such companies as Cisco Systems, Bain & Company, and Amazon • New material concerning how to develop effective entrepreneurial and family teams • How to manage cross-cultural, virtual, and alliance teams • How to create a “team building organization” This book provides the next generation of team leaders, team members, and team consultants with the knowledge and skills they need to create effective and high functioning teams.