Product Description

Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on The Pfeiffer Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in The Pfeiffer Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, 2^nd Edition, includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123972 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-10
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.04" h x 1.34" w x 6.02" l, 1.38 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Book Info
A collection of tools for team-building provided by trainers, consultants and human resource professionals, compiled to hone the theme down into a ten-block model for building a high-performance team. Draws on more than 35 years of articles in the annuals series, featuring a complete team-building kit and an activity toolbox. Softcover.

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Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on the Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in the Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes. Open the pages of The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools and you will find:
* A Stellar Panel of Contributors including Julie O'Mara, Patrick Doyle, Laurence C. Porter, Robert C. Preziosi, Anthony J. Reilly, John E. Jones, Leonard D. Goodstein, and Karen Vander Linde
* A Toolbox Loaded with activities, surveys, and information that you can put in place to build high-performing teams
* A Complete Team-Building Kit that includes a model for determining a team's strengths and weaknesses
"I cut my training teeth on The Pfeiffer Annuals, and I've been a faithful advocate of these peerless guides ever since the first one. I'm just beside myself with glee to have a collection of the 'classic team-building tools' all in one place! Elaine Biech has done a masterful job of bringing together the all-time favorites and organizing them into a practical model. You've just got to have this book on your shelf, within easy reach. Buy it now! I know you're going to use it often." --James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart, chairman emeritus, Tom Peters Company "The Pfeiffer Annuals have been a mainstay for many successful consultants. Now Elaine Biech has compiled everything you need to start, build, and improve teamwork in one fantastic volume. You get it all--meaningful team activities as well as team theory-based, practical, hands-on application. If you consider yourself a team builder, internally or externally, you'll want this book." --Kristin Arnold, president, Quality Process Consultants, Inc. "I use a variety of Pfeiffer tools for team building and have found them insightful and easy to work with. Here is everything you need for a successful team-building session-all between two covers! Thanks you, thank you, for putting them all in one place-and giving me fresh ideas as well." --Julie O'Mara, director, Thought Leader and Customer Relations, MemeStreams, Inc. The Editor Elaine Biech is president and managing principal of ebb associates, inc, a strategic implementation, leadership development, and experiential learning consulting firm. The consulting firm assists large organizations to work through large-scale change and serves clients in both the private and public sector. Her clients include the American Society for Training and Development, Hershey Chocolate, the IRS, Johnson Wax, the U.S. Navy, McDonald's Corporation, Lands' End, Marathon Oil, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elaine is the author of over two dozen books and articles.

From the Back Cover

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, Second Edition

Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on The Pfeiffer Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in The Pfeiffer Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, Second Edition, includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes.

Open the pages of The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools and you will find:

• A Stellar Panel of Contributors including Julie O'Mara, Patrick Doyle, W. Warner Burke, Lawrence C. Porter, Robert C. Preziosi, Anthony J. Reilly, John E. Jones, Leonard D. Goodstein, and Karen Vander Linde

• A Toolbox Loaded with activities, surveys, and information that you can put in place to build high-performing teams

• A Complete Team-Building Kit that includes a model for determining a team's strengths and weaknesses

• Nine New Contributors and sixty additional pages

Praise for the First Edition of The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools

"I cut my training teeth on The Pfeiffer Annuals, and I've been a faithful advocate of these peerless guides ever since the first one. I'm just beside myself with glee to have a collection of the 'classic team-building tools' all in one place!"
—James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart, chairman emeritus, Tom Peters Company

"Elaine Biech has compiled everything you need to start, build, and improve teamwork in one fantastic volume."
—Kristin Arnold, president, Quality Process Consultants, Inc.

"Here is everything you need for a successful team-building session—all between two covers! Thank you, thank you, for putting them all in one place—and giving me fresh ideas as well."
—Julie O'Mara, president, O'Mara and Associates