Are you unlocking the full potential of your teams?
Building Top-Performing Teams by Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour is a strategic guide for leaders, executives and coaches who want to maximize collaboration, engagement and performance across diverse, multi-skilled teams.
Updated with new research on team coaching, diversity, neurodiversity and inclusion, this edition provides proven tools for fostering purpose-driven teams that deliver measurable business results. With more than 60 tools for both virtual and in-person environments, it equips team coaches to drive collective performance, resolve conflict and align teams with strategic objectives.
You'll discover how to:
- Build team cultures that prioritize collaboration over individual silos
- Motivate, develop and reward teams with diverse skills and priorities
- Manage conflict constructively and sustain high performance
- Apply reflective questions and exercises to embed learning and action
Combining strategic models, evidence-based insights and practical exercises, Building Top-Performing Teams enables senior decision-makers and coaches to lead teams that are engaged, aligned and delivering results that drive enterprise success.
Themes include: leadership, team performance, diversity and inclusion, governance, conflict resolution

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Building Top-Performing Teams
A practical guide to team coaching for organizational success
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eBook - ePub
Building Top-Performing Teams
A practical guide to team coaching for organizational success
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 01 Introduction: Why the world needs top-performing teams and the argument for team coaching
- 02 Beyond tools and techniques: Why is a team coach’s ‘way of being’ so important?
- 03 Team coaching frameworks, models and approaches: Introducing the ‘Creating the Team Edge’ framework
- 04 The purpose-driven team: Why does being purpose-driven matter so much?
- 05 Team identity: Why is team identity so important?
- 06 Team values and beliefs: Why are team values and beliefs so important?
- 07 Team awareness: Why is it important to develop awareness both within and beyond a team?
- 08 Team relatedness: Why is building trust and connection so important?
- 09 Team ways of working: How can teams keep reinventing how they work together?
- 10 Team transformation: What do teams need to do to become transformational?
- 11 Team coach development: What are some of the important areas of development for a team coach?
- 12 Conclusion: What does the future require of team coaching?
- References
- Index
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