Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on The Pfeiffer Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in The Pfeiffer Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, 2nd Edition, includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes.
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"I cut my training teeth on The Pfeiffer Annuals, and I've been a faithful advocate of these peerless guides ever since the first one. I'm just beside myself with glee to have a collection of the 'classic team-building tools' all in one place! Elaine Biech has done a masterful job of bringing together the all-time favorites and organizing them into a practical model. You've just got to have this book on your shelf, within easy reach. Buy it now! I know you're going to use it often." (James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart, chairman emeritus, Tom Peters Company)
"The Pfeiffer Annuals have been a mainstay for many successful consultants. Now Elaine Biech has compiled everything you need to start, build, and improve teamwork in one fantastic volume. You get it all--meaningful team activities as well as team theory-based, practical, hands-on application. If you consider yourself a team builder, internally or externally, you'll want this book." (Kristin Arnold, president, Quality Process Consultants, Inc.)
"I use a variety of Pfeiffer tools for team building and have found them insightful and easy to work with. Here is everything you need for a successful team-building session--all between two covers! Thanks you, thank you, for putting them all in one place-and giving me fresh ideas as well." (Julie O'Mara, director, Thought Leader and Customer Relations, MemeStreams, Inc.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"The Pfeiffer Annuals have been a mainstay for many successful consultants. Now Elaine Biech has compiled everything you need to start, build, and improve teamwork in one fantastic volume. You get it all--meaningful team activities as well as team theory-based, practical, hands-on application. If you consider yourself a team builder, internally or externally, you'll want this book." (Kristin Arnold, president, Quality Process Consultants, Inc.)
"I use a variety of Pfeiffer tools for team building and have found them insightful and easy to work with. Here is everything you need for a successful team-building session--all between two covers! Thanks you, thank you, for putting them all in one place-and giving me fresh ideas as well." (Julie O'Mara, director, Thought Leader and Customer Relations, MemeStreams, Inc.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on the Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in the Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes. Open the pages of The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools and you will find:
* A Stellar Panel of Contributors including Julie O'Mara, Patrick Doyle, Laurence C. Porter, Robert C. Preziosi, Anthony J. Reilly, John E. Jones, Leonard D. Goodstein, and Karen Vander Linde
* A Toolbox Loaded with activities, surveys, and information that you can put in place to build high-performing teams
* A Complete Team-Building Kit that includes a model for determining a team's strengths and weaknesses
"I cut my training teeth on The Pfeiffer Annuals, and I've been a faithful advocate of these peerless guides ever since the first one. I'm just beside myself with glee to have a collection of the 'classic team-building tools' all in one place! Elaine Biech has done a masterful job of bringing together the all-time favorites and organizing them into a practical model. You've just got to have this book on your shelf, within easy reach. Buy it now! I know you're going to use it often." --James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart, chairman emeritus, Tom Peters Company "The Pfeiffer Annuals have been a mainstay for many successful consultants. Now Elaine Biech has compiled everything you need to start, build, and improve teamwork in one fantastic volume. You get it all--meaningful team activities as well as team theory-based, practical, hands-on application. If you consider yourself a team builder, internally or externally, you'll want this book." --Kristin Arnold, president, Quality Process Consultants, Inc. "I use a variety of Pfeiffer tools for team building and have found them insightful and easy to work with. Here is everything you need for a successful team-building session-all between two covers! Thanks you, thank you, for putting them all in one place-and giving me fresh ideas as well." --Julie O'Mara, director, Thought Leader and Customer Relations, MemeStreams, Inc. The Editor Elaine Biech is president and managing principal of ebb associates, inc, a strategic implementation, leadership development, and experiential learning consulting firm. The consulting firm assists large organizations to work through large-scale change and serves clients in both the private and public sector. Her clients include the American Society for Training and Development, Hershey Chocolate, the IRS, Johnson Wax, the U.S. Navy, McDonald's Corporation, Lands' End, Marathon Oil, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elaine is the author of over two dozen books and articles. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
* A Stellar Panel of Contributors including Julie O'Mara, Patrick Doyle, Laurence C. Porter, Robert C. Preziosi, Anthony J. Reilly, John E. Jones, Leonard D. Goodstein, and Karen Vander Linde
* A Toolbox Loaded with activities, surveys, and information that you can put in place to build high-performing teams
* A Complete Team-Building Kit that includes a model for determining a team's strengths and weaknesses
"I cut my training teeth on The Pfeiffer Annuals, and I've been a faithful advocate of these peerless guides ever since the first one. I'm just beside myself with glee to have a collection of the 'classic team-building tools' all in one place! Elaine Biech has done a masterful job of bringing together the all-time favorites and organizing them into a practical model. You've just got to have this book on your shelf, within easy reach. Buy it now! I know you're going to use it often." --James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart, chairman emeritus, Tom Peters Company "The Pfeiffer Annuals have been a mainstay for many successful consultants. Now Elaine Biech has compiled everything you need to start, build, and improve teamwork in one fantastic volume. You get it all--meaningful team activities as well as team theory-based, practical, hands-on application. If you consider yourself a team builder, internally or externally, you'll want this book." --Kristin Arnold, president, Quality Process Consultants, Inc. "I use a variety of Pfeiffer tools for team building and have found them insightful and easy to work with. Here is everything you need for a successful team-building session-all between two covers! Thanks you, thank you, for putting them all in one place-and giving me fresh ideas as well." --Julie O'Mara, director, Thought Leader and Customer Relations, MemeStreams, Inc. The Editor Elaine Biech is president and managing principal of ebb associates, inc, a strategic implementation, leadership development, and experiential learning consulting firm. The consulting firm assists large organizations to work through large-scale change and serves clients in both the private and public sector. Her clients include the American Society for Training and Development, Hershey Chocolate, the IRS, Johnson Wax, the U.S. Navy, McDonald's Corporation, Lands' End, Marathon Oil, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elaine is the author of over two dozen books and articles. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Great ideas for HR consultants and general professionals,
This review is from: The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: Best of the Annuals (Paperback)
I found the book to be chockful of helpful information--particularly the checklists, personal evaluations, and learning games and tools. I also liked the step-by-step instructions on everything. Very well organized. Easy to find things--just want you're looking for to solve a key issue or use in a special training class.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Fresh ideas for teams,
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This review is from: The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: Best of the Annuals (Paperback)
This new offering from Pfeiffer/Elaine Biech allows trainers to learn from their peers - working professionals in the field of human resource development. The Ten Block Model clearly presents both a roadmap for new teams and a diagnostic tool for established teams that want to move to the next level. Each of the chapters offers training activities that focus on one of the ten blocks. The final chapter presents a series of team building tools that are practical, easy to use, and thought provoking. This book is the team building equivalent of a recroding star's top hits CD - it presents only the best, culled from a large selection of really good ideas from past Annual editions. A wise addition to your library - a book you'll turn to again and again!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Fresh, Practical and In-Depth,
By Steve Kuper (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: Best of the Annuals (Paperback)
In my work as a training consultant, I get called on to do a lot of work in the area of team building. There are a lot of books on the market that offer games and exercises, but fall short on theory and in depth debriefing. Elaine's book does a tremendous job of doing al of the above. Not only is there a wealth of the practical, but Elaine has gone over and above the expectations of delivering in depth training for the trainer so that one's tool kit if filled with reserve information when conducting teambuilding. YEAH!! Elaine has a way of taking the best of herself and others to make it work for the least to the most experienced trainer in the field. I will use this new tool a lot in my upcoming seminars. I look forward to new books from Elaine...they are ALL on my bookshelf and I use them all regularily for research as well sa recommend them to others!
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