Teams, with the right management, are a highly effective and dynamic means of business organization -- one that increasing numbers of companies rely upon. This latest addition to the Positive Business series presents a core repertoire of skills and techniques for building better teams. Management consultant Michael West gives readers the tools to assemble the right team, shape a vision, articulate objectives, and assess progress. Established teams will benefit from strategies for problem solving, decision making, and managing teams in trouble. He also includes tips on creating a personal leadership style and coaching with finesse to help ensure healthy relationships within the team and across the company. Practical exercises called Work Solutions build expertise, while striking illustrations enhance the author's points on nearly every page. Through-out, West combines business and psychology for a holistic approach managers can use to lead their teams to greatness.

***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.

What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly. As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain in The Progress Principle, seemingly mundane workday events can make or break employees’ inner work lives. But it’s forward momentum in meaningful work—progress—that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees in 7 companies, the authors explain how managers can foster progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: (1) catalysts—events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy—and (2) nourishers—interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality. Brimming with honest examples from the companies studied, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their people’s performance.

The definitive classic on high-performance teams The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors’ clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance. Using engaging case studies and testimonials from both successful and failed teams—ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the U.S. Army to high school sports—the authors explain the dynamics of teams both in great detail and with a broad view. Their conclusions and prescriptions span the familiar to the counterintuitive: • Commitment to performance goals and common purpose is more important to team success than team building. • Opportunities for teams exist in all parts of the organization. • Real teams are the most successful spearheads of change at all levels. • Working in teams naturally integrates performance and learning. • Team “endings” can be as important to manage as team “beginnings.” Wisdom lies in recognizing a team’s unique potential to deliver results and in understanding its many benefits—development of individual members, team accomplishments, and stronger companywide performance. Katzenbach and Smith’s comprehensive classic is the essential guide to unlocking the potential of teams in your organization.

Are you tired of being on a losing team? Do you wish you knew how to build a team of winners? Whether you want to (1) build a winning team, (2) be a great leader, or (3) recruit the right way, then this is the book for you! Is your team in chaos? Learn how to evaluate where your team stands and identify potential problem areas which you can improve upon. You can then strategically employ each member's strengths to make the whole team stronger. Discover the various ways that people respond to change, and then nullify their fears while encouraging them to succeed in new ways. Discover how to lead properly and transform your team into highly motivated winners. To have a great team, you first need a great leader. Adopt proven strategies designed to take you to the next level in your leadership role. Learn how to avoid potential pitfalls so that you can point your team in the correct direction for maximum effectiveness. Become a positive role model that your team can count on and respect. This commitment to excellence will naturally rub off on your team members. infusing them with a sense of purpose and a strong desire to succeed. Create other leaders on the team. The members of your team are each leaders in their own right. Encourage and empower team members to take on positive roles for the benefit of the whole team. All great leaders realize that they can't do everything by themselves, so the ability to delegate responsibility will be a major key to success. In this book you will uncover fresh ways to inspire and motivate your team members while building and communicating your confidence in their ability to excel. By giving each member the space to innovate, practice, and work through their own challenges; they will feel much more connected to the team and be much more willing to go the extra effort to succeed. In this book you will discover some of the best strategies for empowering your team members and making them leaders in their own right, giving you more time to focus on more important tasks. Revel in the joy of a winning team that works in unison. In this book you will discover great advice, strategies and ideas on how to make a great team. This includes how to recruit wisely and then what to do in order to maximize your team's chances of performing effectively and winning when it counts! A healthy, well-functioning team of individuals who are pulling together toward a common goal is just a read away. To win in today's competitive world, you need to do everything possible to ensure your team's success. What will you learn about team building? The five core values of winning teams. How to be a great team leader. How to create a motivating and enthusiastic team environment. How to manage stress, aggression and conflicts in the team. The best ways to communicate with your team. You Will Also Discover: Motivational strategies that will turn your team members into peak performers. How to set team goals that inspire confidence and boost enthusiasm. How to build a team that works well together and wins! How to recruit the right way to build your team of champions. Nothing in life is more enjoyable than being on a winning team! Build your dream team: Buy It Now!

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

Great teams don’t just happen. How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, “Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple decision? What are we even trying to achieve?” As a team leader, you have the power to improve things. It’s up to you to get people to work well together and produce results. Written by team expert Mary Shapiro, the HBR Guide to Leading Teams will help you avoid the pitfalls you’ve experienced in the past by focusing on the often-neglected people side of teams. With practical exercises, guidelines for structured team conversations, and step-by-step advice, this guide will help you: Pick the right team members Set clear, smart goals Foster camaraderie and cooperation Hold people accountable Address and correct bad behavior Keep your team focused and motivated