Team Depot: A Warehouse of Over 585 Tools to Reassess, Rejuvenate, and Rehabilitate Your Team [Hardcover]

Glenn Parker (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 078796218X | ISBN-13: 978-0787962180 | Publication Date: April 17, 2002

Team leaders of all types, from educators to youth group leaders to board members to corporate trainers will put the contents of this book to good use. With chapters formatted as "aisles" you can pick and choose the tools that you have on your shopping list now and pick up a few more later. Aisles include tools for:
* Revisiting your team's goals
* Redefining team members' roles
* Reestablishing ground rules
* Rejuvenating team meetings
* Rebuilding a climate of trust
* Regaining team member commitment
* Reassesing team performance
* Rewarding team success
* And much more!


Attend a featured author workshop at the 13th International Conference on Work Teams: Collaborating for Competitive Advantage, September 23-25, 2002, in Dallas, TX. For information, contact the Center for the Study of Work Teams at 940 565 3096 or visit them online at www.workteams.unt.edu.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Like so many things in organizational life, keeping a culture of teamwork going requires constant renewal. Team Depot provides a conveniently organized resource to enable team leaders and managers to effectively facilitate the renewal process. Glenn Parker's many years of hands-on experience sustaining teams and teamwork are powerfully captured in its pages."
--Bill Fox, vice president and general manager, Telcordia Technologies

"Team Depot is by far the single most comprehensive and valuable collection I've seen of tools and sound advice on diagnosing and improving teams drawn from Glenn Parker's extensive experience as a hands-on consultant and teams practitioner. Using the book's novel organizing principal of a home supply warehouse chain, the reader will discover that each and every one of the twenty aisles contains practical, easily implemented tools for getting derailed teams back on track."
--Malcolm J. Conway, IBM Learning Services Consulting

"Glenn is a master at providing valuable and practical tools for today's teams. Team Depot is a one-stop shopping spree for any team or coach looking for hundreds of strategies, tips, surveys, and exercises to refuel their team."
--Deborah Harrington-Mackin, author, Team Building Tool Kit

"I've lent my copy of Team Depot to a brand-new facilitator and she won't return because she claims it's indispensable. I'll have to buy another copy. Even though I've been in the team-building business for three decades, there are still a lot of things that I have learned from this book. This is truly a book that appeals to both newcomers and veterans."
--Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi, Inc.; author, Teamwork and Teamplay

From the Publisher

"Like so many things in organizational life, keeping a culture of teamwork going requires constant renewal. Team Depot provides a conveniently organized resource to enable team leaders and managers to effectively facilitate the renewal process. Glenn Parker's many years of hands-on experience sustaining teams and teamwork are powerfully captured in its pages."
--Bill Fox, vice president and general manager, Telcordia Technologies

"Team Depot is by far the single most comprehensive and valuable collection I've seen of tools and sound advice on diagnosing and improving teams drawn from Glenn Parker's extensive experience as a hands-on consultant and teams practitioner. Using the book's novel organizing principal of a home supply warehouse chain, the reader will discover that each and every one of the twenty aisles contains practical, easily implemented tools for getting derailed teams back on track."
--Malcolm J. Conway, IBM Learning Services Consulting

"Glenn is a master at providing valuable and practical tools for today's teams. Team Depot is a one-stop shopping spree for any team or coach looking for hundreds of strategies, tips, surveys, and exercises to refuel their team."
--Deborah Harrington-Mackin, author, Team Building Tool Kit

"I've lent my copy of Team Depot to a brand-new facilitator and she won't return because she claims it's indispensable. I'll have to buy another copy. Even though I've been in the team-building business for three decades, there are still a lot of things that I have learned from this book. This is truly a book that appeals to both newcomers and veterans."
--Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi, Inc.; author, Teamwork and Teamplay

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer (April 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078796218X
• ISBN-13: 978-0787962180
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 8.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,063,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.