Publications
The Driving Force
After investing my entire professional life working in and with
teams, I am concerned about the limited success of teams in
most organizations. I also noticed that many people are writing
about why teams fail. I decided to write about how to make teams,
of all kinds and purposes, WORK. The Driving Force is a practical
guide for helping teams succeed. It includes practical tools
and assessments that truly work. The benefits gained from reading
this book are straightforward: learn from others who have done
this work and who live with the results. Plus, you will discover
easy to use teamwork tools that get results.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION I: TEAM BASICS
 Chapter
1: Making Teams a Good Business Strategy
Chapter 2: A Formula for Team Success
Chapter
3: Are You Ready for a Team?
SECTION II: TYPES OF TEAMS
Chapter 4: Natural Work Teams
Chapter 5: Project Teams
Chapter 6: Virtual Teams
Chapter 7: Quick-Change Teams
Chapter 8: Global Teams
Chapter 9: Executive Leadership Teams
Chapter 10: Conclusion
SECTION III: TEAM TOOLKIT
Team Tools
Team Bingo
Team Norms
Meeting Tools
The TripleWin Relationship Assessment
Trust Continuum
Passing the Baton – Changing Leaders
Assimilating New Team Members
Continuous Improvement at Warp Speed
Assessments
- Organizational Readiness Assessment: Are You Ready to Use Teams?
- Great Team Player Characteristics
- Team Effectiveness Assessment
- Project Team Readiness Assessment
- Virtual Team Attributes Self-Assessment
- Quick-Change Team Assessment
- Global Team Feasibility Assessment
- Executive Leadership Team Meeting Assessment
- Executive Leadership Team Assessment
- Organization Assessment
References
Index
POCkit Guide™ to Experiential Learning
Experiential learning is an approach to education that has grown in popularity over the past twenty years. The steps are easy. Set up and conduct an initiative, have participants reflect upon their experience to gain insights from the experience and encourage them to incorporate their new understanding into their work and personal lives. Team initiatives capture the interest and involvement of the participants in training and meeting settings. But most importantly, done well, they contribute significantly to the transfer of learning and behaviour change.
Experiential learning is a powerful way to help teams and groups understand their strengths and habits while identifying areas that need improvement. We created the POCkit Guide™ to encourage practitioners and leaders to use experiential activities to increase learning and to help individuals and groups explore the impact their behaviors and choices have on others. Each initiative has: an activity description, suggested number of participants, materials list, suggested time frame, specific set-up instructions and debriefing questions.
List of Initiatives
Aircraft
All Aboard
Balloon Tower
Birth Signs
Birthday Board
Blind Line Up
Blind Polygon
Building Confusion
Bull Ring
Candy Corn
Chat Room
Coach
Dance to the Music
Egg Drop
Electric Carpet
Elevator Speech
Fifteen Words
Five-Pointed Star
Human Impact of Change
Human Knot
I’m A …
Jumping Through Hoops
Leadership Maze
Magic Carpet
Making the Journey
Marble Pass
“Mock”tail Party
Movie and Song Titles
Nine Balls
Noah’s Arc
Pasta Palace
Penny Pitch
People Bingo
Personal Disclosure
Power Bar
Rescuing the Enthusiastic Customer
Rock Walk
Sherpa Walk
Spider Web
Stump Jump
Sugar Cube Tower
Team Radar
Tower Building
Traffic Jam
Tree Knot
Trust and Money
Trust Walk
Warp Speed
Water Tower
White Water Rapids of Change
Wing It
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