In this completely revised version of his best-selling book, Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Strangers, author and consultant Glenn Parker updates his definitive practical guide to include his recent work in team rewards and recognition, communications technology, and multicultural and virtual-team issues. This new edition contains fresh examples and additional case studies of successful cross-functional teams from IBM, Parke-Davis, Xerox, Boeing, BOC Gases, government agencies, and more. Parker offers concrete advice and inspiration to team leaders, team members, and senior management. Cross-Functional Teams delivers a team operating manual to executives, team leaders, human resource professionals, and students of organizational behavior and provides a tool kit of assessment surveys, worksheets, checklists, and even sample training programs to help launch and sustain effective teams.
As a consultant for more than 30 years, Glenn Parker has helped create high-performing teams at hundreds of organizations including Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Philips-Van Heusen, Telcordia Technologies, BOC Gases, and the U. S. Coast Guard. He is a internationally recognized workshop facilitator, organizational consultant and conference speaker in the area of teamwork and team meetings. Glenn has drawn upon his experience in the field to author some 16 books including several best-sellers such as Team Players and Teamwork, Rewarding Teams: Lessons from the Trenches and Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies and other Strangers; widely used instruments such as the Parker Team Player Survey and manuals for practitioners such as 50 Activities for Team Building and Team Depot: A Warehouse of 585 Tools to Reassess, Rejuvenate and Rehabilitate Your Team. His seminal work on team player styles was featured in the best-selling CRM video, Team Building II: What Makes A Good Team Player? Glenn is one of only 75 management thinkers recognized in the recent book, The Guru Guide. His latest books are Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results(2006) and Team Players and Teamwork:New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration, Completely Updated and Revised 2nd Edition (2008), both published by Wiley. He is currently creating the Parker Team Series: 10 practical booklets on various aspects of successful teamwork, published by HRD Press.
Glenn is the father of three grown children and currently lives in the Princeton, NJ area with his wife, Judy. In his spare time he is an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society where he helped create RUN FOR DAD, a Father's Day event designed to raise awareness about prostate cancer which, in 2009, just its seventh year, drew more than 1,000 participants.
