Proven-to-work tools for building or fine-tuning teams The authors of Designing Team-Based Organizations present hands-on guidance for establishing or refining teams in organizations where they carry out the core work process. Though teams are fast becoming the basic foundation of businesses and other organizations, surprisingly few resources are available to help managers, leaders, and design teams organize an entire business or business unit around teams. In response to requests from their consulting clients, including Texas Instruments and Honeywell, the Mohrmans developed these step-by-step materials to accomplish just that. The workbook is a practical guide that combines basic concepts with dozens of valuable worksheets that team organizers can use to create a viable design plan. Attractively designed with clear graphics, sidebars, to-do lists, and diagnostic aids, the workbook details planning, design, goals, decision-making, communications, leadership roles, performance management, and more. The facilitator's guide outlines how to use the workbook with groups so that unit managers, project managers, design professionals, and human resource staffs can work efficiently with their management teams to transform their groups into teams.

This guide provides over 300 pages of resources suggested by leadership educators in surveys, Center for Creative Leadership staff, and search of library resources. This eighth edition is half-new, including web sites and listserv discussion groups, and it places a stronger focus on meeting the needs of human resources professionals and corporate trainers. An annotated bibliography groups leadership materials in several broad categories: overview; in context; history, biography and literature; competencies; research, theories, and models; training and development; social, global, and diversity issues; team leadership; and organizational leadership (180 pages). Includes annotated lists of: journals and newsletters (9 pages); instruments (21 pages); exercises (41 pages); instrument and exercise vendors (5 pages); videos (29 pages); video distributors (4 pages); web sites (6 pages); organizations (21 pages); and conferences (9 pages). (Contains a 66-page index of all resources.) (TEJ)

This title was first published in 2001. This title was first published in 2001. The core of this thoroughly revised book is a directory of more than 700 methods. Each entry typically comprises an explanation, a bibliography, and cross-references. Other features include a review of different approaches to classifying the methods, and two valuable appendices; the first is to help practitioners analyse their methods; the second providing details of relevant books, journals and other information sources.

This unique guide takes strategic planning to a new and more powerful level. It is the only book that integrates the planning process with team decision making and the facilitation skills needed to make them effective. Whether you're getting started or fine-tuning efforts in progress, this comprehensive toolkit-in-a-book will help you make your vision work. It shows how to bend, shape, and modify the conventional strategic planning process to meet your organizations goals. And it delineates the techniques and methods you need to succeed. Examples from actual companies illustrate each step of the process. There are also extensive views of several real-world planning efforts as they evolved over three to five years; these eye-opening cases reveal in depth what worked and what didn't. Moreover, Team-Based Strategic Planning is designed for active use at every stage. You'll find dozens of hands-on tools that will help you as your strategy evolves, including a proven strategic change process model that forecasts expected changes and results over a five-year period; cue cards and flow charts that plot the process and make it easier to master; self-contained facilitator guides for setting priorities, guiding the team to consensus, and using twelve classic techniques to help the team reach its objectives; and troubleshooting advice on problem intervention for CEOs, planning leaders, and facilitators. Team-based strategic planning is intricate and complex. Don't attempt it without an expert guide. From initial concept to final implementation, this is the practical and dynamic resource that you'll consult day after day, year after year.

The authors of "Designing Team-Based Organizations" provide hands-on guidance for establishing or refining teams. Attractively designed with clear graphics, sidebars, to-do lists, and diagnostic aids, the workbook details planning, design, goals, decision-making, communications, leadership roles, performance management, and more.

Reality-Based Leadership Workshop Facilitator's Guide Want to ditch the drama, restore sanity to your workplace, and turn excuses into results in your organization? The Reality-Based Leadership Workshop shows leaders how to restore peace to the workplace so there is time to focus on the bottom line. Infused with Cy Wakeman's winning style, this lively workshop opens your leaders' eyes to the unproductive ways they spend their time at work helps them gain new perspectives of themselves as employees, and then shows them how to apply these lessons to become better leaders of their direct reports. Based on Cy Wakeman's popular book Reality-Based Leadership, the Workshop Facilitator's Guide set includes everything you need to conduct a winning program that conveys Wakeman's candid, humorous approach to leadership. Using the Reality-Based Leadership model will challenge your participants to discard traditional practices and conventional wisdoms in leadership and instead conserve the energy lost in drama and turn excuses into results by developing the five most valuable competencies in your teams: Reality-based thinking; Organizational alignment; Capitalizing on change; Driving results; and Accountability. During the workshop participants will learn what it takes to Uncover destructive thought patterns within themselves and others Diffuse drama and lead the person in front of them Stop managing and start leading, empowering others to focus on facts and think for themselves The workshop gives you the tools to take participants through the program and prepare them to return to their workplaces equipped with the facts-based, confident approach of a Reality-Based Leader, capable of liberating and inspiring others. The Reality-Based Leadership Workshop Facilitator's Guide set includes the following components Reality-Based Leadership Workshop Facilitator's Guide with flash drive Reality-Based Leadership Workshop Participant Workbook Reality-Based Leadership Self-Assessment The workshop is designed as a daylong session. The material can also be used for one-hour "lunch-and-learn" modules or for previous participants to refresh their knowledge of Reality-Based Leadership.