The Team Building Sourcebook Offers helpful hints and examples for every step of the team-building process from contracting with the client to data collection, analysis, feedback, implementation, and follow-up. It offers lesson plans for activities such as establishing a learning contract, building an ideal-team model, work-group and intergroup role clarification, conflict management, developing a mission-and-purpose statement, facilitating individual and group feedback, experiential problem-solving activities, and developing action plans.

This comprehensive team building resource provides you with the right information and training designs to help you tackle specific issues or overcome difficulties that today's teams face.

The customizable training designs are complete with activities, objectives, guidelines, and handouts, flip chart content, and overhead masters. This resource also introduces a new model of team effectiveness and is most useful if you already have fundamental group-process and team building skills.

These training designs help you intervene effectively with:

Trustless teams
Teams in chaos
Temporary task teams
Merged teams...and more!

Make the effects of your next team intervention long-lasting with the guidance of Team Building for the Future.

Each module addresses the needs in a specific type of team and each activity outlines its specific objective.

Teaming Up: Achieving Organizational Transformation Shows organizations how to address change through a high participation strategy. This multifaceted book gives organizations a comprehensive four-step strategy for a successful change process.

Team Training: From Startup to High Performance Train self-directed teams in just 23 high-impact sessions. With Team Training: From Startup to High Performance, any trainer can transform a traditional hierarchical department or work group into a confident, productive, fully self-directed work team. Designed for teams at any stage of development-from beginning to intermediate to advanced-Carl Harshman and Steve Phillips' 23 self-contained skill-building training modules deliver an easy-to-use lesson plan, trainer's notes, and pop-out reproducible handouts. Each module can be conducted in just 1 to 3 hours and packs all the materials and activity suggestion you need to teach team skills, spark lively group interaction, and assess ongoing team progress and performance. You also get instructions for adapting each module to fit even the tightest schedules.

Managing Change: A Practical Guide to Transforming Organizations This multi-faceted workbook shows organizations how to address change through a comprehensive strategy. Content is aimed at practitioners who have neither the time ­ nor the inclination ­ to research volumes on organization theory, change, or the latest tactics. You will learn the four key components of an organizational change effort: establishing levels of participation; developing the management team; creating organizational communication systems; and addressing and resolving crucial organizational issues.

Teaming Modules

Teaming Modules is a new and comprehensive guide for the development of teams. It includes a proven team effectiveness model and everything you need to take your team from start-up to high performance. This set of materials includes a proven team model, team assessment inventories, team member participant materials, modules for team effectiveness, instructor guides and instructional overheads. This comprehensive set of materials is designed both for the internal and external team building facilitator, as well as for any supervisor or team leader.

Team Assessment Inventory (TAI)

An effective tool for revealing what the team perceives as its strengths and weaknesses. The assessment examines six areas for teams: general productivity and climate, roles, goals, relationships, processes and procedures, and leadership. After scoring and interpreting the TAI, a team can plan an effective and powerful improvement strategy.

Team Player Inventory (TPI)

A self assessment tool for showing the strengths and weaknesses of individual team members. After scoring and interpreting the TPI, team members can identify and understand their own and others' behavior on the team.

Personal Change Navigator (PCN)

The personal change navigator is a self assessment tool that identifies the thoughts, feelings, behaviors and productivity level that characterize your current position in the Change Navigation Cycle. This knowledge enables you to ask the right questions, select the right strategies and take appropriate action to increase adaptability and productivity during change.

Teaming Tools

Identifies and offers a process to become effective in the seven critical areas which the most productive and successful teams master: New Team Kick-off, Clarifying Roles and Expectations, Team Player Characteristics, Communication and Meeting Facilitation Techniques, Problem Solving Process, Checklist for Effective Meetings and Bottom Line Communication. The tools include checklists, exercises and worksheets to keep team members on-track towards achieving maximum team performance.