Improving Work Groups
Improving Work Groups

Author: Dave Francis

Publisher: Pfeiffer

Published: 1992-12-24

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780883903551

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Guidelines and 25 activites designed to build and maintain effective teams! Aimed at any manager, consultant, or employee responsible for developing effective teams, Improving Work Groups offers a step-by-step system for initiating and evaluating team performance. You'll discover: * What a team really is * Why teams should be built * How teams are developed * Who develops them, and * How to measure and improve team effectiveness You'll also get 25 activities that cover a wide range of issues concerning team building, such as: setting objectives, analyzing the leadership function, leadership style, team development stages, charting team success, and many more! Based on the premise that few teams develop to their full effectivess without a good deal of nuturing, Improving Work Groups brings an element of open, systematic planning and review to the task of team development. Novice or seasoned veteran, you'll find it a valuable tool for developing teams that work together long into the future!

Working in Teams
Working in Teams

Author: James H. Shonk

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9780814457184

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Offers a systematic program for developing managers and employees into teams that work together to increase productivity and achieve the organization's goals

Groups That Work (and Those That Don't)
Groups That Work (and Those That Don't)

Author: J. Richard Hackman

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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A range of expert contributors explores the design and leadership of groups, providing detailed descriptions of twenty-seven diverse work groups—including task forces, top management groups, production teams, and customer service teams—to offer insights into what factors affect group productivity, and what leaders and group members can do to improve work group effectiveness.

Successful Group Work
Successful Group Work

Author: Patrice Palmer

Publisher: Alphabet Publishing

Published: 2017-06-05

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 0997762853

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Successful implementation and completion of team activities requires instructors and students alike to confront challenges not present in individual work. To maximize learning, group projects need a solid lesson plan that helps students understand the benefits of group work, develop ground rules and assign responsibilities, value everyone’s contributions, and resolve potential conflicts. Teacher, curriculum designer, and “teacherpreneur” Patrice Palmer offers thirteen easily implemented, robust group-work activities formatted to foster the development of life skills. Designed with secondary and postsecondary students in mind, Palmer’s workbook takes students through the team-building process, from getting to know one another to a final evaluation of the group’s work and success. Written in a user-friendly format, Successful Group Work: 13 Activities to Teach Teamwork Skills allows teachers to choose activities that best meet their students’ needs. Make group work a powerful addition to your teaching repertoire. You may be surprised how your students rise to meet a new challenge!

The Discipline of Teams
The Discipline of Teams

Author: Jon R. Katzenbach

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2009-01-08

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1633691039

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In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counter-intuitive features that make up high-performing teams—such as selecting team members for skill, not compatibility—and explain how managers can set specific goals to foster team development. The result is improved productivity and teams that can be counted on to deliver more than just the sum of their parts. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Work Group Learning
Work Group Learning

Author: Valerie I. Sessa

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0805860215

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First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Improving Work Groups
Improving Work Groups

Author: Dave Francis

Publisher: University Associates Incorporated

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Based on the premise that few teams develop to their full effectivess without a good deal of nuturing, "Improving Work Groups" brings an element of open, systematic planning and review to the task of team development. Novice or seasoned veteran, you'll find it a valuable tool for developing teams that work together long into the future!

Productive Group Work
Productive Group Work

Author: Nancy Frey

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1416608834

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Find out how matching research-based principles of collaborative learning with practical action can make all group work productive group work, with all students engaged.

Learning in Groups
Learning in Groups

Author: David Jaques

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780749430917

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The book, rateher than a formal lectures or presentations, allows students to have greater scope ot negotiate meaning and express themselves and their own ideas. It also helps them to establish far more effective relationships, not only with their tutors and trainers but with each other. It can also play a central role in developing key profesional skills, such as listening, presenting ideas, persuasion ...

Empowered Teams
Empowered Teams

Author: Richard S. Wellins

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 1993-08-06

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781555425548

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Provides the frank answers to questions about how teams work, what makes them effective, when they are useful, how to get them going, and how to maintain their vigor and productivity over the long haul. Draws on a survey of over five hundred organizations and an in-depth study of twenty-eight companies (conducted jointly by Industry Week and the Association for Quality and Participation).