A practical collection of 50 "activities" focusing on team building and team training, providing facilitators, trainers, managers and meeting planners with a variety of tools to increase team effectiveness.
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.
