The Team-Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective Workplace Teams [Paperback]

Deborah Mackin (Author), Deborah Harrington-Mackin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2007

Workplace teams learn to function as effective units when they have the tools and techniques to be greater than the sum of their parts. Now thoroughly updated and expanded, "The Team-Building Tool Kit" provides practical advice to guide team coaches, leaders, and members to high-performance results. Filled with bullet points to make tips and strategies quick and easy to grasp, the book covers both the structure and nitty-gritty process details that so often derail even the best teams. Featuring new sections on team accountability, decision making, and problem solving, this team-building classic is a must-have for every team library.

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“...whether you are empowering employees to participate in self-directed work teams, or you want to encourage increased employee ownership and participation in decision making—while retaining your traditional reporting relationships—or you want to provide your front-line leaders with new supervisory ideas and tactics, this book is an excellent resource. The topics and suggestions are timeless…The practical descriptions, tools, and insights are useful in nearly any employment stracture. Whether you use the book to spark discussion or as a reference tool. The Team-Building Tool Kit is a good addition to any management library.” -- Facilities Manager

“…an excellent resource….a good addition to any management library.” Facilities Manager

Book Description

Workplace teams learn to function as effective units when they have the tools and techniques to be greater than the sum of their parts. Now thoroughly updated and expanded, The Team-Building Tool Kit provides practical advice to guide team coaches, leaders, and members to high-performance results. Filled with bullet points to make tips and strategies quick and easy to grasp, the book covers both the structure and nitty-gritty process details that so often derail even the best teams. Readers will learn how to:

have effective team meetings • improve accountability for results and team member behavior • assess team performance • resolve team conflicts • recognize the pitfalls that affect decision making • train for high performance • design a plan for implementation

Featuring new sections on team accountability, decision making, and problem solving, this team-building classic is a must-have for every team library.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 17 and up
  
• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM; 2nd edition (August 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081447439X
• ISBN-13: 978-0814474396
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE FOR TEAM BUILDING!, September 20, 2007

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Sam "Business Read" (Greensburg, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Team-Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective Workplace Teams (Paperback)

What an excellent guide for any company that currently has SDWT or is contemplating the idea. A must have! This book will guide you through the process, covering all topics from beginning to end. I love the completeness of the meeting management section! If you have ever sat through an unproductive, b-o-r-i-n-g meeting and desperate for productive, engaging meetings this book is for you! Although weary of teaming in the beginning, the use of the concepts in this book has increased productivity to 30%, we are all on board now! The transformation is sometimes painful and not at all easy, but in the end is worth it. Higher productivity, employee morale, product quality and employee engagement is all yours if you stick to the program! Avid business reader, this book is priceless!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource for the Long Term, July 3, 2010

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Glenn Parker "Team Player" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Team-Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective Workplace Teams (Paperback)

I own several of Mackin's books and they are very useful resources. She writes from experience, not from an academic or research perspective. She works in the field with organizations helping them build and sustain teams. So, you know her recommendations are based on things that have been tested and worked with real teams in real companies. As a colleague who also works in the area of teamwork, I have a very high regard for Deborah's work Team Players and Teamwork, Completely Updated and Revised: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration

4.0 out of 5 stars 20 minutes to a Top Performer, February 21, 2011

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This review is from: The Team-Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective Workplace Teams (Paperback)

Well written and easy to follow. Valuable information for conducting meaninful conversations with co-workers. Book was in excellent condition and a good value.