Team Building and Workplace Communication For SUCCESS

Championship Team Building by Jeff Janssen

• Rate your teams strengths and weaknesses
• Solve problems that could destroy your team
• Improve team discipline, responsibility, and accountability
• Includes fun, interactive team-building games to promote teamwork.
• 188 pages (6 x 9)

Jeff Janssen is the sports pshchologist for the University of Arizona athletic department. This book for coaches details dozens of proven strategies to help you develop great team chemistry. Discover the seven Cs of championship team building.

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Building Team Roles & Direction: Pinpoint Leadership Skill Development Training Series

Building Team Roles & Direction provides you with specific techniques to identify the critical factors and benefits of a team’s roles and direction, and the impact both have upon a particular team and the organization as a whole.

It demonstrates how to understand the implications and ramifications that either enhance or diminish a team’s role and direction, as well as how to overcome the problems and pitfalls associated with improper role assignments or direction.

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Building High Performance Teams: Systems and Structures for Leading Teams and Empowering Transformation

This leadership book is for leaders striving to transform organizations. It is merely a leadership book, it is “leadership toolbox” that is readily available and can be implemented right away. The forms and templates come with permission to copy and can be utilized without much preparation. This comprehensive guide to high performance in the workplace comes with life long updates, planning templates and many other valuable resources including an entire section on preventing and solving confl

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The Distance Manager: A Hands On Guide to Managing Off-Site Employees and Virtual Teams

Global business demands and new technologies have created a virtual workplace for many companies, with employees and teams routinely collaborating from distant geographical locations on the road, from home, at client sites—even on the other side of the globe. The Distance Manager provides practical information and tools to help managers bridge the communication gaps created by geographical separation, and get peak performance from employees they rarely see. This handbook is perfect for sal

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Building Strong Teams: Pinpoint Leadership Skill Development Training Series

Building Strong Teams clearly and succinctly illustrates the elements and factors that establish and shape strong teams, as well as their benefits.

You will learn how the stages of team development generate strength, and the factors that either enhance or diminish it.  You will also learn proven and effective strategies to build and enhance team strength, and how to energize teams.

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Project Management Competence: Building Key Skills for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

This is the first book to promote project management competence on all three levels necessary for overall effectiveness. J. Davidson Frame uses the guidelines he helped develop for the renowned Project Management Institute to define the most important competencies for individuals, teams, and organizations. He then provides development strategies and diagnostic tools to build and evaluate these competencies throughout the company. Frame paints a portrait of what the competent project manager look

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Building Teams: Skills for the Effective Team Leader (Professionalism in Corrections)

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Team Building For Effective Leadership

A strong leader can be a team’s greatest asset, but an unskilled leader might be its downfall. Leadership is a potent quality, but it’s difficult to define as a concrete skill or personal asset. In many cases organizations just soft through their employees for someone who seems to be a “natural” leader. But according to Toronto team building specialists The Xpeerience Group this is definitely a mistake.

“Most leaders are made, not born,” says Xpeerience Group manager Robert Ortali. Leadership requires a potent mix of practical knowledge related to tasks at hand and specific competencies in the team. If you just pick the most charismatic person, you’ll end up with a friendly leader with no real ability. Worst of all, leaders appointed because of their personality tend to be skilled at hiding failures. When their projects fall apart, you may be left holding the leash of a bad situation that doesn’t show itself until it’s too late.

Ortali and the rest of the Xpeerience Group teach leadership skills as part of team development programs. Through direct experience, leaders learn a number of skills, including the following:

Avoiding Grandstanding: By helping every team member contribute to tasks, leaders embody the group as a whole. This is a powerful motivator for leaders, but some leaders take it too far, and take most of the credit for their teams’ successes. Most people have encountered bosses who claim responsibility for work they didn’t really do, but even good, ethical leaders can make this mistake. If they only credit the team as a group, no individual member gets credit except for the leader – he represents the whole team, after all. Team building games can correct this by requiring leaders to take stock of individual performance at the both the beginning and end of a task, reminding them who’s really contributing.

Defining Roles Clearly: Team building games with individual task inventories also help leaders develop another team building skill: the ability to assign members to specific sections of a task so that everyone contributes to a common objective without confusion or redundant labour. Well defined roles also prevent leaders from overworking team members. This is very much a trial and error process, which is why fun team building games such as sports are ideal activities to develop these leadership skills. Leaders need to adjust roles after seeing the team in action – role assignment isn’t just for the start of the process.

Offering Honest Praise: Most leaders have heard that positive reinforcement is important to successful teamwork. They’re willing to shower team members with praise . . . and are disappointed when this doesn’t lead to real performance improvements. What happened? The fact is that there’s a difference between empty compliments and genuine positive feedback. Employees can spot fake praise a mile away. It tells that individual that the boss doesn’t know him or her and doesn’t really care about who’s doing what to meet organizational goals. Empty praise can be worse than no praise at all because it sends this negative message. Through detail-oriented team building games [ones that involve collecting factual information or performing complex tasks – scavenger hunts and cooking are excellent examples] leaders learn to pay attention to individual contributions, not them, and single them out for honest compliments. This signals to the team that the leader is not only paying attention, but rewarding those who work the hardest.

In the safe environment of team building games, leaders can afford to make mistakes, become better leaders and help their teams succeed. Leaders are made, not born, and building them up to peak effectiveness should be a priority for any organization.

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Team Building Skills: Creating a Culture of Motivation

Of all the many team building skills to refine, building a culture of motivation must be high on the list.

What team characteristics sustain high levels of motivation?

The first question to be answered in a discussion of motivation is “What makes us do anything?” Why am I writing this article? Why are you reading it?

Some common triggers that usually encourage anyone’s motivation are:

Is there something in it for me?
Will it make me feel good?
Does it have some noble purpose or cause that inspires me; that I can commit to?

In work environments, researchers have identified some principles of motivation that leaders need to keep before them if a team is to be successful and if they are to lead well.

Of course there are many subtleties that exist in human behavior but understanding the general principles of motivation is crucial for a leader if he wants a long-term, highly committed team.

There are three key factors that create conditions for high internal motivation that apply to every team member and team leader:

Is the work that I’m doing viewed as meaningful or valuable so that I feel I am making a contribution?
Do I know the results of my work? Am I finding out how well I am doing? (or not doing?)
Do I feel personally responsible for my work outcomes so that I can be proud of what I do?

It is true that motivation is inherently intrinsic and the ultimate responsibility for that motivation resides within us, but it is also very possible for a successful leader to create a culture of motivation which will sustain each team members energy and commitment to that team very significantly.

Creating such a culture or environment of motivation will encourage team members to feel valued, respected and affirmed for what they bring to the team. It will also increase their motivation to meet those challenges and overcome those obstacles that are part of the life of any team.

An effective team leader needs to be aware of 6 key factors that can significantly influence a team’s motivation.

Is the team’s purpose or cause clear to every member? Does it align with their personal values and aspirations? It may be hard for a team member to align with a purpose if it is not in line with his wants and needs or his values and his motivation over time may diminish. One strategy with a lethargic team might be to stop and revisit the team’s purpose. Look for alignments and personal conflicts of value or goals. Discussion may not be comfortable but it is necessary and sooner rather than later.

Do team members feel a real challenge? Do they see and understand the significance of the big picture or does their role feel too mundane? Many members will say that their most rewarding team experiences resulted from some sort of challenge. The challenge itself was the motivator and its absence can cause a loss of energy.

Do the team members experience and express camaraderie, fellowship and loyalty? Do they genuinely like each other and work to develop and maintain their relationships. Although they are probably not aware that the research supports this as a motivation, they will understand that it’s a lot easier to support the members of your team when you have a good relationships with them.

Time spent on team building, encouraging team relationships and learning to resolve conflicts, will promote open, respectful and direct communication. This in turn will encourage team members to feel secure enough to affirm each others’ contributions, and also give appropriate care to those who are struggling

Does each team member have ownership of an identifiable block of work that motivates him or her to be on this team; where his skills and abilities are being used well? This is so important.
 
Be aware however that such responsibility can be de-motivating if the consequences of error or failure are too great.
If the organization, for example, has a history of punishing mistakes or creating scapegoats, then the giving of responsibility is viewed more as a negative. The short-term performance may be good (remember fear is a motivator), but long-term motivation will suffer. It is difficult to sustain a high performing team when energy is being sapped by fear.
 

Do team members feel they are growing as a team? Are they learning new concepts, adding to their skills, and stretching their minds. If this is happening motivation tends to remain high. Personal growth adds value to the team, enhancing self-esteem and self-worth.

Do you, as the team leader, value the importance of the above motivators enough to talk about them with your team or to use a motivation assessment tool to help them open up and be honest?
 
You may not always like what you hear!
However, it is a fact that no matter how popular or charismatic a team leader is, he or she will not be effective long term unless there is a positive culture of motivation.
A team leader must work at creating an environment where expressions of encouragement, respect and affirmation are the norm; where purposes are clear and regularly revisited; where there is appropriate accountability and where kudos is given for each persons contribution.
We have all seen examples of how great leaders inspire teams to accomplish the impossible. History books and Hollywood are full of these stories, and we come to honor these leaders.
On closer examination however, you will find that every great leader of a team, has understood the value of encouraging each member of the team to feel valued and respected. He or she has worked to create a culture of positive motivation experienced by the whole team.
At the end of the day, when the credit goes to the whole team and to what each person brought to that team, and not just to the team leader, that team leader is satisfied. His work is done and that is what makes him great.

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The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: Best of the Annuals

Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on the Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in the Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance tea

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