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“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results.”

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“Effective teams are a necessary part of any high performance organization.”

-- Kevin McManus, the Systems Guy

 

"Are Your Teams Working? - Keys to Team Effectiveness"

Workbook Table of Contents

Topic
Page #
Have You "Done That" Right?
1
Would You Like to Make Your Teams More Effective?
2
What is a Team?
3
What Types of Teams Do You Have?
4
How Many Teams Do You Have?
5
Why are Different Team Types Necessary?
6
Are You Taking the Formal Team Process Lightly?
7
When Should Formal Teams be Used?
8
What Should You Expect From Formal Teams?
9
What are Your Team Output Baselines?
10
What Determines Team Effectiveness?
11
Are Your Teams Effective?
12
What are Your Team Infrastructures Like?
13
Developing an Effective Formal Team Infrastructure
14
The Four Key Infrastructure Investments
15
Are Your Teams Working on the Right Things?
16
Are You Providing Enough Team Support? (pp.1)
17
Are You Providing Enough Team Support? (pp.2)
18
Are Your Teams Getting Enough Information?
19
Information - The Fuel of Effective Work Teams
20
Do Your Teams Know That They're Appreciated?
21
What Should Your Infrastructure Look Like?
22
Who Should Lead or Facilitate Your Teams?
23
Now … What Will You Invest?
24
Projecting Process Support Costs
25, 26
Balancing Results and Commitments
27
Identifying Investment Options
28
Infrastructure Redesign Action Plan Worksheet
29
In Summary
30

This workbook is organized using a "page pairs" layout. In other words, the pages shown above can be found on the right hand side of the workbook when it is opened. Opposite each of the above pages you will find visual summaries of the page's content, tip sheets, or exercises that can be used to help you transfer the concepts and ideas into workable, effective applications. Only the text pages are numbered, so the workbook actually contains more than sixty pages.

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Click on one of the following links to learn even more about how this workbook can help the teams you already have in place, and those that you might be thinking about using, even more effective:

Workbook overview
Summary of workbook exercises
Summary of key team myths and questions
Characteristics of work, project, and focus teams
Summary of team types
Example team infrastructure
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Last Revised - November 18, 2008
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