Go Team!

Take Your Team to the Next Level: 3 Steps to Great Results

Ken Blanchard, Alan Randolph, Peter Grazier

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781576752623
• eBook ISBN:
  9781609944223
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

From the coauthor of The One Minute Manager comes a three-step process that "ultimately frees everyone to more comfortably use their self-management skills" ( The Globe and Mail ).

All of us in the today's workforce are called upon more and more to work effectively in teams. But do you know how to build a team that truly takes advantage of the knowledge, experience, and motivation of its members? Most of us don't, and we quickly become frustrated, give up, and opt to go it alone—not a good solution in today's business environment. Fortunately, there is a better way. Here, expert authors Ken Blanchard, Alan Randolph, and Peter Grazier outline a three-step process that will help you transform any kind of team into a Next-Level Team—one that uses all team members' ideas and motivation more effectively, makes better use of team members' and team leaders' time, and generates benefits for individual team members, the team, and the organization.

Designed as a working guide filled with detailed instructions for people who want to build high performing teams, Go Team! will lead you, step by step, to great results.

Through discussions, case examples, and questions to consider, you and your teammates will learn how to share information to build high levels of trust and responsibility; set clear boundaries to create the freedom for team members to act responsibly; and develop self-managing skills to make good team decisions. With Go Team! as a guide, you'll find that working in a team can be fun, satisfying, and highly productive.

"Regardless of where you work and the type of team you belong to, this book will help you 'soar above the ordinary.'" — The Business Times

INDEX

A

access to information, 99–100

actions, independent, 29–30

appraisals, team, 73–74

assessing team functioning, 114–116

authority, 6–7, 8–9, 77–78

B

behaviors, changes in, 46–47

beliefs, changing, 28

benefits, 1–2, 12–13, 14–15, 58–59

boundaries, 2, 7, 16

about, 29–30

creativity and exploration with, 33–35

defining goals and, 67–68

helpful/unhelpful, 36–37

role clarification with, 30–32

vision/mission/values as, 105

widening, 70–71, 71–74, 75–76, 103

breakthroughs, 33–34

business partners, teams as, 108–109

Business Week, 46

C

challenges, 48

change(s)

accelerating, 62

in behaviors, 46–47

continuing process of, 92–94

discouragement and, 86–87

frustration and, 58

Chesebrough Ponds, Inc., 21

codes of conduct, 50

collaboration, 41–43, 106

communication, 24–25, 97–98, 112

competition, 74, 118–119

creativity, 33–35

cross-functional teaming, 106

D

decision making, 5–6

authority for, 77–78

delegation of tasks for, 10–11

expanding, 84–85

importance of information for, 19–23

making the “right” decision, 101–102

organizational, 72

talents of team members for, 78–80

delegation, 6–7, 10–11

differences, making use of, 47–48

discouragement, 56–57, 75–76, 86–87

Dygert, Charles, 47

E

emotions, 48

encouragement, 111

energy, frustration as source of, 55–57

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION MOVING TEAMWORK TO THE NEXT LEVEL
• ONE Understanding Next Level Teams a picture of your future
• STEP ONE Begin LearningNext Level Skills
• STEP TWO Accelerate the Change
• STEP THREE Master the Skills
• NOTES
• INDEX
• SERVICES AVAILABLE
• LINKING GO TEAM! TO IMPORTANT TEAM CONCEPTS FROM PREVIOUS BOOKS
• TEAM PRAISINGS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• ABOUT BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS
• BE CONNECTED