The Suddenteams Program: Bring Your Team Together Using the Science of Teams

Team building exercises do nothing to create permanent, cost-effective changes in the way a team performs. This book is a "do-it-yourself" version of the 500-page manual used by TeamTrainers Consulting to create effective teamwork and train team leaders. Though based on more than 500 scientific and professional sources, The SuddenTeams Program has little in the way of history, theory, or arguments for teaming. Instead, it is a step-by-step manual that will help you convert a "so-called team" into a "true team," optimize a good existing team, or solve team problems. Included are preparation and team training procedures, a guide to managing true teams, and forms and examples. You also get nearly 70 pages of techniques for troubleshooting a wide range of teamwork issues-with only a few games! Creating the cost-effectiveness, high output, and high job satisfaction of a true team takes time and work, like anything worth having. But this book will get you there faster.