Best Team Skills: Fifty Key Skills for Unlimited Team Achievement

by Losoncy; Lewis

• ISBN13: 9781574440850
• ISBN10: 1574440853
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-15
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Readers will gain the tools they need to achieve the highest performance through the most productive encouragement and motivational methods available. Dr. Losoncy identifies the 50 skills that will most encourage any team members. Using 100 encouragement opportunity exercises, he works as a personal trainer to reinforce the reader's progress.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
About the Author	xv
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK	1	(140)
Is our team a bunch of individuals or an encouraging winning team?	1	(1)
Benefits of becoming an encouraging winning teammate	2	(1)
The seven principles of mutual encouragement to turn individuals into an encouraging winning team	3	(1)
Encouragement: The key to building the best team	4	(2)
The best teams include, rather than exclude, teammates	6	(1)
The best teams cooperate rather than compete with teammates	7	(1)
The best teams have a mutually determined shared focus	8	(2)
The best teams center on what's right with each other	10	(1)
The best teams face difficult realities together	11	(2)
The best teams proceed as if problems have solutions	13	(1)
The best teams emphasize effort, improvement and progress	14	(2)
If the team succeeds, so do you	16	(1)
The best teams believe encouragement is everyone's business	16	(2)
The best teams start with mutual encouragement training	18	(3)
PHASE I---SYNERGY
Focus on Feelings
The Synergy Principle	21	(24)
Invitation skills	23	(2)
Warmth skills	25	(2)
Sensitive-listening skills	27	(2)
Empathic-responding skills	29	(2)
Questioning skills	31	(1)
Personalizing skills	32	(2)
Enthusiasm skills	34	(2)
Agreement skills	36	(1)
Mutuality skills	37	(2)
Positioning skills	39	(2)
Accessibility skills	41	(1)
Sensory-representational skills	42	(3)
The Cooperation Principle	45	(18)
Social-interest skills	47	(2)
Cooperative-listening skills	49	(1)
Credibility skills	50	(2)
Universalizing skills	52	(2)
Genuineness skills	54	(2)
Mutual-reliance skills	56	(2)
Conflict-resolution skills	58	(5)
PHASE II---EXPANDING THE MATRIX OF OUR MINDS
Focus on Thinking
The Focus Principle	63	(14)
Shared-vision skills	65	(2)
Mutual-determinism skills	67	(2)
Anticipation skills	69	(2)
Choosing skills	71	(1)
Self-starting skills	72	(2)
Goal-centering skills	74	(3)
The Respect Principle	77	(14)
Self-encouragement skills	79	(3)
Asset-focusing skills	82	(1)
Liability-into-asset skills	83	(2)
Relating-individual-assets-to-team-goal skills	85	(2)
Respecting skills	87	(2)
Expectation skills	89	(2)
The Reality Principle	91	(18)
Objectivity skills	93	(2)
Acceptance skills	95	(3)
Humor skills	98	(2)
Relabeling skills	100	(2)
Rational-thinking skills	102	(2)
Assertiveness skills	104	(2)
Welcoming-criticism skills	106	(3)
The Optimism Principle	109	(14)
Overcoming-discouraging-belief skills	111	(2)
Certainty skills	113	(2)
Find-a-way skills	115	(1)
Perceptual-alternative skills	116	(2)
Optimistic-explanatory skills	118	(5)
PHASE III---ACTION AND PROGRESS
Focus on Doing
The Progress Principle	123	(18)
Becoming skills	125	(2)
Effort-focusing skills	127	(3)
Spotting-improvement skills	130	(2)
Contribution-recognition skills	132	(2)
Evaluating-action skills	134	(2)
Credit-sharing skills	136	(2)
Celebration skills	138	(3)
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work	141