Rees Trio, Teamwork from Start to Finish: 10 Steps to Results! [Paperback]

Fran Rees (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 1997

Show your team how to chart its own course, evaluate its progress, and self-correct.

Many books talk about teamwork, but few address the actual process of creating and managing effective teams. You'll learn to approach teamwork as a journey with a beginning, middle, and satisfying And. Find out how to construct a blueprint to carry your team along.

Discover the two factors essential for well functioning teams: getting work done and building and maintaining the spirit and momentum of the team.

Frequently teams are built and challenged to work as a unit, but the team members aren't clear about what steps to take and when to take them. Keep your team from becoming confused, frustrated and ultimately giving up. Develop step-by-step proceedures to get work done!

You'll learn these ten steps:


* Focusing the team
* Assigning roles
* Establishing guidelines
* Planning the work
* Doing the work
* Reviewing team performance
* Completing the work
* Publishing the results
* Rewarding the team
* Moving on


Create teams that work together to increase productivity, improve quality, and achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Teamwork is a critical avenue for getting things done. For an organization to be successful today, managers, supervisors, and employees must work together to increase productivity, improve quality, and achieve high levels of customer satisfaction. Many books talk about teamwork, but few address the actual process of creating and managing effective teams. Rees approaches teamwork as a step-by-step journey with a beginning, middle, and satisfying And. Teamwork From Start to Finish is not only for team leaders, it is a ten-step guide essential for every member of a team.Discover the two dimensions essential for well functioning teams:Getting work done.Building and maintaining the spirit and momentum of the team.Learn how to construct a blueprint to carry your team along. Frequently teams are built and challenged to work as a unit, but the team members aren't clear about what steps to take and when to take them. Keep your team from becoming confused, frustrated and ultimately giving up. Develop step-by-step proceedures to get work done. Empower your team with the ability to chart its own course, evaluate its progress, and self-correct.Teamwork From Start to Finish is useful for both new and already existing teams. Once you know the steps and have the motivation to build and maintain work groups, you will, without a doubt, create successful, high-performing teams.

From the Back Cover

This book addresses teamwork as a step-by-step process, from beginning to And. It a handbook for team leaders, and members of teams alike.Fran Rees has created a roadmap to effective teamwork. Along the route she offers pointers on creating team charters, assigning team roles, planning and doing work, and evaluating team performance. Rees presents the ten steps of effective teamwork from start to finish, including focusing the team, doing the work, completing the work, and moving on. Six useful and practical lessons in teamwork are presented, including pointers on decision making, productive meetings, diversity, creativity, group dynamics, and celebrating milestones along the way.Rees gives you the skills to build your own blueprint for teamwork.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (April 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787910619
• ISBN-13: 978-0787910617
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,544,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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