Making Teams Work : 24 Lessons for Working Together Successfully (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series) [Paperback]

Michael Maginn (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071435301 | ISBN-13: 978-0071435307 | Publication Date: December 18, 2003 | Edition: 1

These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers.

Proven rules for encouraging teamwork, from forging a common goal and clarifying individual responsibilities to inviting positive conflict.

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Making Teams Work

24 Lessons for Working Together Successfully

In today's fast-moving work environment, teams are the way that work gets done. Making Teams Work outlines 24 rules and guidelines for molding individual team members into a solid, functioning group, one whose value is far greater than the sum of its parts. Look to this concise, value-packed book to learn how to build innovative, successful, and exceptional teams by showing team members how to:

• Forge a clear, common goal
• Clarify member responsibilities
• Avoid predictable problems
• Collaborate
• Bring ideas to life
• Make solid decisions
• Discover consensus
• Manage differences
• Trust each other
• Run good meetings
• Lead without dominating

Work teams succeed only when they can eliminate rivalries and focus their different perspectives and skills on solving the problem or challenge at hand. Let Making Teams Work show you how to build such teams, working with individual members as well as the collective team to produce creative, consistent, and decisive results--every time.

About the Author

Michael Maginn, Ed.D., is president and CEO of Singularity Group, Hamilton, MA. For more than two decades, Singularity Group has helped its clients achieve sustainable outcomes and improve performance in team effectiveness, leadership, sales, and management. The author of Effective Teamwork, Dr. Maginn has extensive consulting experience with companies in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071435301
• ISBN-13: 978-0071435307
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical advice for REAL Managers, January 4, 2005

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This review is from: Making Teams Work : 24 Lessons for Working Together Successfully (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series) (Paperback)

Maginn's ideas and tools really work. I have been able to use his material in my consulting practice, and groups of real managers--from supervisors to division managers--have found the material helpful. I recommend this book highly, and have given it to several line-manager clients facing real teamwork-related problems. All report that the book is both insightful and really useful on the job from day to day. This book delivers a boatload of value for a low price.