Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Team Dynamics or Communicating in Groups and Teams

Team Dynamics

Author: Debbie Housel

In today's high impact world of business, it helps to have someone on your team. Effective teams make for effective businesses, and effective businesses mean success for everyone involved. In every career field it is essential that you develop into a positive team player. The qualities of a progressive team can and will vault you to the top of the success ladder. Team Dynamics will not only review the qualities of an effective team player, but illustrate the types of habits that will make each team you are a part of highly productive and efficient.
Team Dynamics is one title in the Professional Development Series by South-Western. This series is the perfect resource for learning the non-technical strategies and tactics needed to compete in today's business world.



Table of Contents:
Pre-Assessment Activity
Part 1: Working in a Team
Part 2: Essential elements of a Team
Part 3: Team Development
Part 4: Being a Good Team Player
Part 5: Barriers to Successful Teamwork
Part 6: Habits of Effective Teams
Part 7: Effective Team Meetings
Part 8: Leading the Team Endnotes Online Resources Case Studies. Post-Assessment Activity

New interesting book: The Measure of Her Powers or Simply Elegant Soup

Communicating in Groups and Teams: Sharing Leadership (with InfoTrac?)

Author: Gay Lumsden

Emphasizing teamwork, leadership and technology, this book distinguishes itself in two major ways: its emphasis on teamwork and leadership skills and its integration of ethics and diversity throughout. This book is especially timely because of the recent attention given to teams in business and industry, the examination of technology's role in small group communication, and the growing awareness that professionals need to examine their own leadership competence and understand the ethical and social implications of the groups in which they participate.