- Explains how to develop a purpose-driven team with shared goals, vision and identity who can achieve greater business success than individual employees are able to
- Shows how to manage internal team conflict that can arise from employees having different priorities, motivations and levels of experience
- Provides diagnostic questions and reflective practice exercises in each chapter so that readers can identify how the content can apply in practice in their own team
- Contains more than 40 tools which can be used when coaching virtually or face-to-face
- Includes practical case studies from organizations including John Lewis, Mothercare, Carlsberg, PepsiCo and Unilever
Building Top-Performing Teams
A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational Success
Achieve greater business growth using this practical guide to develop your team into a high performing collection rather than a group of disparate individuals.
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EAN: 9781789666762
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x158
304 pages
About the book
The best way for a business to succeed is through its people. While there are gains to be had from streamlining processes, reducing costs or making a strategic change, the biggest potential for success comes through how humans collaborate. Specifically, the greatest gains are achieved through high performing teams, and teams of teams.
Containing more than 40 tools which can be used in a virtual or in-person coaching environment, Building Top-Performing Teams is a practical guide for leaders, HR professionals, coaches, team coaches and anyone with management responsibility. It covers how to motivate, develop, engage and reward a team of employees with different levels of experience and priorities to achieve outstanding business success.
Building Top-Performing Teams includes essential guidance, tools and techniques that show how to promote team ways of working rather than individual-focused processes. It also includes guidance on managing internal team conflict and ensuring that teams are purpose-driven and working towards a shared business goal. Each chapter includes diagnostic questions and reflective practice exercises to allow readers to identify how to apply each element of team development to their workforce. Supported by the authors' experience in organizations such as the BBC, John Lewis, KPMG, Britvic, the NHS and BMW this is essential reading for anyone needing to unlock the value of teams to achieve greater business performance.
About the authors
Lucy Widdowson MSc PCC is an accredited executive and team coach, Director of Performance Edge, and a lead tutor on team coaching at Henley Business School. During her 30 year corporate career she has worked as a HR Director and is a UK board member for team coaching for the ICF.
Paul J Barbour MSc is an accredited executive and team coach, with 20 years prior experience leading businesses and teams in Kerry Group plc. A writer and speaker with strong interests in human collaboration and conflict resolution, he is also a lead tutor on team coaching at Henley Business School.
As we move away from the heroic leader towards distributed leadership, operating in complex, dynamic systems, leaders need to be able to curate and craft team performance, like a conductor or a premiership coach. Building Top Performing Teams is written by two highly experienced practitioners, who bring their insights from practice, and blend this with the emerging science on team performance to create a book for our time. This is an ideal read from team coaches, consultants and leaders concerned with creating work relationships which deliver more than the sum of their parts.
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