Creating Effective & Successful Teams

by Keen, Thomas R., PH.

• ISBN13: 9781557532893
• ISBN10: 1557532893
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-03
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

This book provides a basic primer on how to create successful and effective teams. It is appropriate for large, medium, or small non-profit or for-profit organizations. The practical tips included in this book detail a wide array of team-oriented helpful hints. These practical application tools can be utilized to improve teams if they already exist. If teams do not exist, it provides a step-by-step process in creating a team-oriented environment, such as how to create a team culture in the organization and a specific organizational design that will make teams more effective. It also covers the essentials of teamwork that are critical to making teams effective. The orientation of this book offers a new paradigm for selecting and managing teams. It differs from other books as it describes exactly how to match the right people for each team. Each team player has two roles to bring to a teamtheir functional/professional role based on their expertise (i.e. a financial background), and a team competency role that is based on their innate personal strengths. Creating Effective and Successful Teams describes how to leverage each team member's functional/professional-based competencies with a set of personality-based competencies that can translate into a particular team role they would best play to make teams effective and successful.

Author Biography

Dr. Thomas Keen has over 30 years of experience in business, research, and academia

Table of Contents

Why Teams?	1	(10)
Teams Have Been Used Successfully for Decades	1	(1)
Teams in the Twenty-First Century	1	(1)
What Is a Team?	2	(2)
What Are the Basic Components of Teams?	4	(1)
Benefits of Team Building	5	(1)
Teams Can Also Have Some Downsides	5	(2)
So, Are Teams the Only Solution to Evaluate?	7	(1)
But . . . Teams Are Everywhere	7	(1)
The Importance of Teams in the Future	7	(4)
Make Teams Part of Your Culture and Organizational Structure	11	(6)
Make a Team-Friendly Culture!	11	(1)
It Takes a Real Commitment . . . or Else!	11	(1)
How to Start? Get a Team Mentality!	12	(1)
Develop a team infrastructure to facilitate successful team operations	12	(1)
The Lead Team	13	(1)
The Team Champion	14	(1)
The Individual Team	15	(1)
Match the mission or charter with the appropriate kind of team	15	(1)
But . . . Teams Are Not the Ubiquitous Solution	16	(1)
Teams Are Not the Quick Fix	17	(8)
Give the Teams Time to Develop: The Classical Approach to How Teams Evolve	17	(3)
Discover the new paradigm of how teams evolve	18	(2)
Establish a Sense of Purpose for Each Team	20	(1)
The Key Factors of Successful Teams	21	(2)
Be Prepared to Recognize Resistance to Teams	23	(2)
Let's Start with Teamwork	25	(10)
Teamwork Makes Teams Effective	25	(1)
Essentials of Teamwork	25	(1)
Know the seven characteristics of high-performing teams	26	(1)
Essentials of Empowerment	26	(1)
Success equals empowerment	27	(1)
So, How Does a Team Champion Impact Teamwork?	27	(1)
How Does a Team Champion Impact the Team?	28	(1)
Guidelines for Effective Teamwork	29	(1)
Effective Team Interpersonal Relationships	29	(1)
The Idea of Team Building	30	(2)
Know the seven steps to achieve successful teamwork	31	(1)
What to Look for to See if Teamwork Is Really There	32	(3)
Teams Start with People	35	(6)
Teams Are People, Too!	35	(1)
The Key That Unlocks the Secret of Selecting the Right Team Players	36	(2)
Belbin's Hypothesis	38	(3)
How to Match the Right People to the Right Team	41	(8)
First, Match Functional Competencies with Team Competencies	41	(6)
Identify realistic team competency roles using Keen's Team Competency Roles©	42	(3)
Identify each person's MBTI on a team	45	(1)
Balance the team membership based on the team mission	46	(1)
Balanced Teams = Successful Teams	47	(2)
How to Cope with Team Issues	49	(8)
Learn to play by the rules	49	(1)
Gaining Consensus	50	(1)
Team Training Issues	50	(1)
Coping with Common Problems Using Teams	51	(1)
Dealing with Problem Participants	52	(1)
Rush to Get It Done	52	(1)
Lost in Space	53	(1)
Learn the art of persuasion---without arm twisting	53	(1)
Team Conflict or Feuding	54	(3)
Establish ground rules for conflict resolution	54	(3)
How to Monitor Team Success	57	(14)
Focus on the Output	57	(1)
Oops!! It's Not Working?	57	(6)
Start with the big picture---dipstick the organization's team temperature	58	(5)
Team Effectiveness Auditing Techniques	63	(5)
Complete a total team audit	63	(2)
Complete a self-contribution audit	65	(1)
Complete a peer audit	65	(3)
Tools that Enable Teams to Achieve Effectiveness	68	(3)
How to Model Team Effectiveness	71	(4)
Start from the Beginning!	71	(3)
Use Keen's Team Effectiveness Model©	71	(3)
Now, Go Forth and Develop Successful Teams!	74	(1)
Bibliography	75	(6)
Index	81