- The self-help book for job hunters, and everyone who works on teams or in groups.
- The assessment tools and action planning you'll need to identify your strengths--and the strengths of your team--and plan to make improvements.
- The playbook for leaders of EVERY team!
In business and in government, music, theatre, and sports, most work is being done by teams.
- How should you contribute?
- What should you avoid?
This book will answer these questions, and give you over 400 tips. YOU choose the actions that you feel comfortable taking in the next ten days and beyond.
Imagine yourself as a teammate that is highly valued on your team, and welcome on other teams when the time comes. You welcome and mentor new teammates or stagemates, you are committed to your team.
You make yourself and your teammates be better collaborators. Teamwork in Ten Days: Building Teams in the Arts, Sports, Business, and Government was written for you.
Four easy-to-read chapters:
Chapter One: Teams are everywhere, from a relay race to a marriage, juntos, bands, groups, orchestras, combos, theatre groups, sports, teams, committees, project teams, task forces, etc.
Find out how the interactions and dynamics change from one type of team to another.
Find out the characteristics of ALL successful teams.
Chapter Two: Successful Musical Groups and Theatre Groups describes the dynamics of these groups, harmony and balance, and the same twenty characteristics of successful teams, from their view, and a hundred specific suggestions.
Assess yourself and your team using three Team Assessments, and plan for improvement.
Chapter Three: Successful Sports Teams, briefly describes the team dynamics of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, and soccer, and describes the same twenty characteristics of successful teams. Includes over a hundred ideas to make yourself a better 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. and with other teams.
Learn the essentials of group dynamics, social networking, collective intelligence, and crowdsourcing, as well as the twenty characteristics of successful teams in business and government. Use over a hundred specific suggestions to make yourself a better teammate. Assess yourself and your team using three Team Assessments, and plan for improvement.
©2012 The Sterling Planning Group
