Team Development
Delegating For Results: An Action Plan For Success
Robert B. Maddux
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)
This book is a practical, realistic, motivating book designed to help supervisors and managers recognize and apply basic delegation skills. Delegation is not a mysterious art form available to a chosen few. It is a basic management process that can be learned and honed to a fine edge by anyone willing to invest some effort and practice proven techniques.
Do Your Best
Rollin Glaser, Eileen M. Russo, and Matthew P. Eckler
Organization Design and Development, Inc., King of Prussia, PA (1995)
A Facilitator's guide full of activities to help your group with their mission, vision, and goals. Each section contains six or seven activities.
Flight Of the Buffalo: Soaring To Excellence, Learning To Let Employees Lead
James A. Belasco & Ralph C. Stayer
Warner Books, Inc., New York, NY (1993)
Belasco and Stayer explain why executives are unable to change their organizations quickly enough. Managers are often weighted down by old leaderships styles. Drawing upon their own highly successful business careers, the authors detail a new leadership role for executives. They offer their insights and discuss the difficult times today in the world's marketplace and the fact that they call for bold efforts on the part of business and political leaders.
Leaders: The Strategies For Taking Charge
Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus
Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, NY (1985)
This revealing study of the qualities of today's great leaders is one of the most useful books ever written on this important subject. In this best-selling book, Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus have identified the essential qualities of leadership anyone can practice.
No-Nonsense Delegation
Dale D. McConkey
American Management Association, New York, NY (1991)
It doesn't take very long for a manager to realize that learning the art of delegation is essential. It's a difficult lesson to master even for the experienced practitioner, but particularly so for those newly appointed to supervisory positions. In this updated and revised edition of his classic No-Nonsense Delegation, Dale McConkey demystifies the delegation process and shows how every manager can accomplish more and achieve better results and neither abdicate overall responsibility nor personally perform every task.
Organizational Culture and Leadership
Edgar H. Schein
Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1985)
Organizational culture has become a major theme in best-selling books and management seminars. Indeed, culture is often used to explain everything that happens in organizations, from successes to failures. But there has been little serious analysis of organizational culture - of what it is and is not, how it develops and changes, and how it affects organizational functioning. In this book Edgar H. Schein carefully defines organizational culture to make it truly useful in understanding and managing organizations.
Quick Team Building Activities for Busy Managers
Brian Cole Miller
American Management Association, New York, NY (2004)
Just because your team doesn't have the time or the budget to embark on a full-scale training program doesn't mean you have to abandon the idea of team-building exercises altogether. This book presents 50 fun, practical exercises to choose form and you don't need any special facilities, expensive products or previous training experience to get great results - in minutes.
Re-Creating Teams During Transitions: A Practical Guide to Optimizing Team Performance During Changing Times
Paul J. Jerome
- Richard Chang Associates, Inc., Irvine, CA (1994)
- Is your organization about to experience a growth period, layoff, reorganization, merger or acquisition, or change in direction, leadership, or personnel? This guidebook unfolds a proven and practical map to help you and your team navigate through a smooth transition.
Risk Taking: A Guide For Decision Makers
Herbert S. Kindler, Ph.D.
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)
This book is designed to help you: manage risky decisions with a systematic framework, learn more about your own willingness to take risks, handle risk with more awareness, skill, and assurance.
Saying Hello: Getting Your Group Started
Lois B. Hart, Ed. D.
Organization Design and Development, Inc., King of Prussia, PA (1983)
This book was written for planners of educational and training programs, meetings, and conferences. All of these experiences have to get started in some way, therefore, you might as well do it creatively and meaningfully.
Self Managing Teams: Creating And Maintaining Self Managed work Groups
Robert F. Hicks, Ph.D.; Diane Bone
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)
This book answers the following questions: What is a self-managing team? Is your organization ready for self-managing teams? Is your management ready for self-management teams; Are you ready for self-management teams? What are the rewards and benefits of self-managing teams?
Teaching The Elephant to Dance: The Manager's Guide to Empowering Change
James A. Belasco, Ph.D.
Penguin Group, New York, NY (1990)
In the economy of the 1990s, change spells the difference between corporate life or death. Yet in most organizations, especially previously successful ones, change often seems next to impossible. This eye-opening book gives every manager a step-by-step guide to making the impossible happen. Filled with case histories of companies large and small that have maneuvered out of stagnation to get back into the competitive mainstream, it shows how to devise new corporate vision and strategies and how to overcome inertia and inbred adherence to "how it's always been done" and how to make both management and labor trail-blazers rather than road-blocks to new standards of excellence.
Team Building Activities
Alanna Jones
Rec Room Publishing, Richland, WA (1999)
107 interactive games and activities can be found in the pages of this easy-to-use book. Each game is fun, experiential, easy to lead, unique and requires minimal resources.
Team-Building: How To Build A "Winning" Team
Charles Mallory
National Press Publications, A Division of Rockhurst College
Continuing Education Center, Inc., Shawnee Mission, KS (1991) This book shows team leaders how to get results and keeps team projects running smoothly, on time and on target, by learning how to: foster creativity and team energy; neutralize conflict that can sabotage team productivity; motivate team members to work toward common goals; set up checkpoints to ensure team progress; recognize and use individual strengths and talents.
The Empowered Manager-Positive Political Skills At Work
Peter Block
Jossey-Bass Pub. San Francisco, CA (1987)
For years, managers and employees have felt powerless to control their lives or shape their organizations. Looking at a wide variety of organizations, Block shows managers how to beat inherent pressures that erode initiative, dull creativity, and dissuade healthy risk taking. Readers learn how to create a strong vision of the future-one that encourages the best in themselves and in the people around them This best-selling book shows how, with the positive political skills, managers can honestly and courageously face the reality of their organizations and find renewed meaning in their lives and in their work.
The Leadership Engine
Noel Tichy with Eli Cohen
Pritchett & Associates, Inc., Dallas, TX (1998)
The goal of this book is to help you meet the growing leadership needs of your organization. As new technologies enable new organizational structures and different work approached, power if being redistributed. This changes the way we conduct business. It means leadership becomes more local. Larger numbers of people must become capable of leading, simply because they are operating with more power, more information and more decision-making authority than before. This book can help you play a part in this migration of leadership ability across your organization.
The Stress Of Organizational Change
Price Pritchett and Ron Pound
Pritchett & Associates, Inc., Dallas, TX (1995)
A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change explains... How you can avoid the 15 basic mistakes that create major job stress - Ways to cope with an even faster rate of change that's coming in the years ahead - Why "surrendering" to change may be the only way to win- How to treat stress when your efforts at prevention fail - Why a "low-stress work environment" can be dangerous for your career - How to put yourself in charge of stress reduction, rather that waiting for someone else to bring relief.
The Supervisor's Handbook
Mark R. Truitt
National Press Publications, A Division of Rockhurst College Continuing Education Center, Inc., Shawnee Mission, KS (1991)
As a supervisor or manager, your success depends on the results you get through others. Become the effective supervisor your people need by learning how to: set and measure realistic objectives, create trust and cooperation among your employees, manage conflict and "difficult" employees and motivate your employees to peak performance.
The Team Handbook
Peter R. Scholtes
Joiner Associates, Inc., Madison, WI (1988)
The Team is a practical guide to working in or with project teams. It is packed with step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and worksheets, all showing how to implement many quality improvement principles. It is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide on how to use project teams to improve quality throughout an organization. Its clear, simple test and directions lead the reader through a project from inception to closure.
The Wisdom Of Teams - Creating The High-Performance Organization
Jon R. Katzenbach - Douglas K. Smith
Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA (1993)
Teams are the key to improving performances in all kinds of organizations. Yet today's business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork, empowerment, or participative management. In this book the two senior consultants argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead-from total quality to customer service to innovation-without teams.