MAKING TEAMS WORK

Making Teams Work


24 Lessons for Working Together Successfully


In todays fast-moving work environment, teams are the way that work gets done. Making Teams Work outlines 24 rules and guidelines for molding individual team members into a solid, functioning group, one whose value is far greater than the sum of its parts. Look to this concise, value-packed book to learn how to build innovative, successful, and exceptional teams by showing team members how to:


Forge a clear, common goal

Clarify member responsibilities

Avoid predictable problems

Collaborate

Bring ideas to life

Make solid decisions

Discover consensus

Manage differences

Trust each other

Run good meetings

Lead without dominating


Work teams succeed only when they can eliminate rivalries and focus their different perspectives and skills on solving the problem or challenge at hand. Let Making Teams Work show you how to build such teams, working with individual members as well as the collective team to produce creative, consistent, and decisive results--every time.


These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each books main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers.


Proven rules for encouraging teamwork, from forging a common goal and clarifying individual responsibilities to inviting positive conflict.

Michael Maginn, Ed.D., is president and CEO of Singularity Group, Hamilton, MA. For more than two decades, Singularity Group has helped its clients achieve sustainable outcomes and improve performance in team effectiveness, leadership, sales, and management. The author of Effective Teamwork, Dr. Maginn has extensive consulting experience with companies in North America, Europe, and Asia.