Product Description

A down-to-earth guide to the powerful and dynamic process of team development and the important role of leadership from team start-up through maturity. For team members wrestling with leadership, managers responsible for guiding teams, and executives trying to hold it all together, interviews with leaders as well as managers who have made the transition to self-directed teams illustrate the changes in behavior and organizational support required to master the skills of leadership today. In addition, the book includes a wide array of interactive tools such as training plans, self-assessment checklists for team leaders, and discussion guides crafted to help managers and team members identify key strengths, target problem areas, evaluate progress, and hone vital team and leadership skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2038284 in Books
• Published on: 1994-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 286 pages

Ingram
This book helps managers understand their changing roles in creating a more empowered culture through self-directed teams. Through interviews with leaders of self-directed teams, the authors show how others have remastered the changes and acquired new behaviors to succeed as their teams have developed and matured. Approx.

From the Back Cover
A down-to-earth guide to the powerful and dynamic process of team development and the important role of leadershipfrom team start-up through maturity. For team members wrestling with leadership, managers responsible for guiding teams, and executives trying to hold it all together, interviews with leaders as well as managers who have made the transition to self-directed teams illustrate the changes in behavior and organizational support required to master the skills of leadership today.|In addition, the book includes a wide array of interactive toolssuch as training plans, self-assessment checklists for team leaders, and discussion guidescrafted to help managers and team members identify key strengths, target problem areas, evaluate progress, and hone vital team and leadership skills.

About the Author
JEANNE M. WILSON Jeanne M. Wilson, Jill George, Richard S. Wellins, and William C. Byham are affiliated with Development Dimensions International (DDI), a leading training and development company in Pittsburgh. Wilson, Wellins, and Byham coauthored Empowered Teams (Jossey-Bass, 1991). Byham is also author of the best-selling Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment (1990). JILL GEORGE Jeanne M. Wilson, Jill George, Richard S. Wellins, and William C. Byham are affiliated with Development Dimensions International (DDI), a leading training and development company in Pittsburgh. Wilson, Wellins, and Byham coauthored Empowered Teams (Jossey-Bass, 1991). Byham is also author of the best-selling Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment (1990). RICHARD S. WELLINS Jeanne M. Wilson, Jill George, Richard S. Wellins, and William C. Byham are affiliated with Development Dimensions International (DDI), a leading training and development company in Pittsburgh. Wilson, Wellins, and Byham coauthored Empowered Teams (Jossey-Bass, 1991). Byham is also author of the best-selling Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment (1990). WILLIAM C. BYHAM Jeanne M. Wilson, Jill George, Richard S. Wellins, and William C. Byham are affiliated with Development Dimensions International (DDI), a leading training and development company in Pittsburgh. Wilson, Wellins, and Byham coauthored Empowered Teams (Jossey-Bass, 1991). Byham is also author of the best-selling Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment (1990).