Tools for Team Leadership: Delivering the X-Factor in Team eXcellence [Hardcover]

Gregory Huszczo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 17, 2004

Jam-packed with over 80 all new and field-tested diagnostic questionnaires, checklists, needs assessments, organizational surveys, and exercises, this self-study training guide puts the power of team leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer, consultant, and team member struggling to help teams succeed.

Editorial Reviews

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Clear and understandable with many logical explanations and examples. Speaks from experience; draws on his knowledge to make a point. -- Quality Progress, March 1, 2005

Cross-functional teams' diverse aspects make team leadership a challenge--one that Huszczo tackles with clarity and simplicity. -- Biz Books by Jim Pawlak, March 27, 2005

His book is just fine. There is plenty of material here for consideration and action. -- Training Magazine, February 2005

Makes a valuable contribution toward team performance that can be easily applied by individual managers or across entire organizations. -- Human Resource Planning, June-Aug. 2006

Offers team leaders many creative strategies to help them improve their ability. -- Soundview Executive Book Summaries, January 2005

Provides tools such as focus group questionnaires, checklists of responsibilities, exercises for teams, chapter reviews, pithy "commandments" to improve teams. -- HR Magazine, March 2005

User friendly. Huszczo has provided a superb toolbox for helping teams be successful. -- Personnel Psychology, October 2005

From the Inside Flap

Gregory Huszczo's first book, TOOLS FOR TEAM EXCELLENCE, broke new ground with its seven-point model for building teams in organizations. Now, in this new, much-anticipated guide, Huszczo focuses on the one vital component that separates the great teams built on collaboration and partnership from the also-rans.

TOOLS FOR TEAM LEADERSHIP introduces the critical "X-factor" in team success--leadership--and delivers an advanced set of tools and strategies to help anyone become an effective team leder. Grounded in the author's practical frontline experience with hundreds of teams and backed by solid research and instruments, it explores the essence of leadership in a team environment. Huszczo identifies the three chief responsibilities of every team leader--raise awareness, generate options, and plan for success--and presents a comprehensive toolbox for use in analyzing a team's strengths and weaknesses, creatively brainstorming strategies and tactics, generating options and facilitating consensus, and implementing action plans that help teams help themselves.

Jam-packed with questionnaires, checklists, needs assessments, organizational surveys, sample training modules and exercises, TOOLS FOR TEAM LEADERSHIP covers teambuilding for both new and existing teams, with special help for teambuilding at the top, and includes a self-study review at the end of each chapter to help turn key learning concepts into a plan of action.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing (August 17, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891062017
• ISBN-13: 978-0891062011
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #385,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read!, April 26, 2005

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tools for Team Leadership: Delivering the X-Factor in Team eXcellence (Hardcover)

This is a solidly written, clear and comprehensive guide to leading teams. Author Gregory E. Huszczo touches on almost every subject a team leader needs to know - what skills are necessary, how you develop them, how you build teams, what you do when conflict erupts and so on. This book is an excellent introduction to team building for someone newly assigned to a team. It also offers important advice for executives of companies that are considering a team approach to management. The style is clear and straightforward, but quite academic. The author cites research and evidence to back his assertions, but he does not provide much in the way of entertainment. We find that those who like to swallow their management lore straight from the bottle will savor this book; those who prefer to mix it with anecdotes may wish to imbibe elsewhere.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Team Learning Inside, December 23, 2005

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jbx2usa "jbx2us" (MI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tools for Team Leadership: Delivering the X-Factor in Team eXcellence (Hardcover)

I had the opportunity to attend a class with Gregory Huszsco on building teams. I have to say that the class, as well as the book, was very informative and very well thought out. Those of us who are in teams, managing teams, or thinking of using teams in our organization all should read this. It should be required reading for management and all team members.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SPARKLES WITH SUBSTANCE!, February 23, 2005

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Gerry Stern "Stern's Management Review Online" (Culver City, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tools for Team Leadership: Delivering the X-Factor in Team eXcellence (Hardcover)

The author builds upon "Tools for Team Excellence," his previous work, this time focusing on leadership. He provides an advanced set of approaches and techniques for successful team leadership. This self-study book explores the central qualities of leadership in a team environment. It includes a toolbox for analyzing a team and methods to help a team help lead and build itself. The book is loaded with key points, extremely well written and organized, and offers many examples, 36 exercises, 21 highlighting tables, chapter summaries, and after-chapter reviews. A book that sparkles with substance.