Hi Ruth!
Here is one more good text on team Building- Group Dynamics for Teams-
Daniel Levi, Sage 2007.
Thanks also for sharing the list you could gather.
Regards,
Asha
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Subject: Recommendations for a Team-Building Text
Colleagues,
Many thanks to those of you who responded to my inquiry. Many, like me,
are unsatisfied with any of the texts available but here are their
suggestions:
Lynn Offermann wrote:
For now I use Hackman's "Leading Teams" book along with a small Dyer
book on teambuilding which has little meat but some practical advice.
Then I supplement with my own materials. I have also assigned a chapter
or two from Hackman's old "Groups that work, and those that don't" book
for case discussion.
lro@gwu.edu
Cindi Fukami wrote:
I'm a big fan of Paula Caproni's book, Management Skills for Everyday
Life, 2nd edition, which has excellent material on teams (but also has
other topics, too).
I'm also a big fan of La Fasto and Larson, When Teams Work Best,
although it is not a text.
Finally, have you seen Joining Together by Johnson and Johnson (the
collaborative learning folks)? It's in its 9th edition so someone likes it!
cfukami@du.edu
Susan Herman wrote:
I use Paula's book in training mid-level new managers, and it's
excellent. Just did a 6-week session with our Department of
Transportation, it went very well with Paula's text. I'm also looking
forward to seeing what Rae Andre's new book (now just out and haven't
gotten my copy yet) has to offer.
ffsjh@uaf.edu
Rae Andre, to whom I was referred by Susan, is working on a new team
text. Her OB text can be reviewed at
http://prenhall.com/behindthebook/mgmt.html.
r.andre@neu.edu
Pat Schutz wrote:
At some point, you may be discussing compensating teams for their work.
Steven E. Gross wrote an insightful trade-book for the Hay Group
entitled "Compensation for Teams."
pschutz@MESASTATE.EDU
Tjai Nielsen wrote:
I echo Don's thoughts on Richard Hackman and his work on teams. Along
those lines, another article that you may find helpful is a theory piece
on coaching. It is comprehensive and offers significant insight
regarding the role and importance of leaders, development, and of course
coaching for teams. Hackman, J.R. & Wagemen, R. (2005). A theory of
team coaching. Academy of Management Review, 30(2), 269-287.
tnielsen@gwu.edu
Jacob Eisenberg wrote:
Just finished teaching my second Team Processes & Development course, which
is offered as an elective to a mix of PT and FT MBA students at UCD. I've
used Leigh Thompson's text, Making the Team (Prentice Hall/Pearson; 3rd ed)
and have been very satisfied with both scope, tone and theory-practice
balance.
Jacob.Eisenberg@UCD.IE
Daniel Evans wrote:
I've always liked the stuff done by ken Blanchard (High Performing
Teams)- what is a team, team development stages, shared leadership,
building a team charter, etc. They have some nice materials to
facilitate the meeting with as well. It lends itslef well to online
education as the concepts can be readily adapted to virtual teams. I
have also used various team decision making games online. For example,
the old NASA simulation (you're on the moon with a basket of goodies,
what do you keep...)
evans@EM-LYON.COM
Stacy McCracken wrote:
I have read a ton of books on teamwork, etc. I think you will find a lot
of meaningful information for your audience. (Because these are not
written as textbooks, they may provide some excellent balance for the
other types of material you have previously read.)
- John Maxwell's The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
- Laurie Beth Jones Teach Your Team to Fish
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick
Lencioni
Stacy.McCracken@mail.utexas.edu
Tom Hawk wrote:
Team-based Learning, Michaelsen, Knight, & Fink, 2004, Stylus, may have
some useful text for you.
THawk@frostburg.edu
Richard Hackman wrote Don McCormick:
Probably best would be either a chapter from the "Leading Teams" book or
the piece with Wageman on "When and How Team Leaders Matter." You can
download the latter paper (or anything else on my resume) by going to my
home page (
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hackman/ ), click on
"publications," and request for download anything you want. Regarding
tools, exercises, and instruments, go to my research
web site, which is
http://www.leadingteams.org and you will find many
teaching resources.
Don McCormick wrote:
[Hackman's] websites are a bonanza for those of us trying to teach about
teams. I can't recommend them highly enough. They include several tools
that can be useful in teaching about teams.
- Slides from Team Coaching Workshop Presentation
- Design and Process Checklists
- Team Launch Exercise
- Self-Administering 10,000 Mile Check-Up (this is for classroom teams)
- Team Debrief Exercise
- Guide to Team Diagnostic Survey (TDS) scales and items
- Teaching note for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra video case
Also, I think that his article (Hackman, J. R. 2002, July. New rules for
team building. Optimize, 50-62) is a good introduction to his work. It
is written for the general public. I believe his Team Diagnostic Survey
available for free for educational purposes. An excellent mp3 recording
of a talk he recently gave in Berlin explaining his team theory is
available for free at
http://www.wzb.eu/aktuell/veranstaltungen-archiv_2008.en.htm
dwm@webstop.com
Carolyn Birmingham wrote:
I have been using Levi (Group dynamics for teams) in a junior level
course and it is dry and theoretical with too many citations for the
(undergrad) students but it does explain things clearly. I suppliment it
a lot with practical applications and experiential activities. I was
hoping to swap it out for another book the next time I rolled downhill
into integrated business core to teach that module (you teach 18 hours a
week to 21 hours a week depending on whether you are teaching two
sections of IBC against another course - too much and last time I was
teaching 9 hours on Monday from 8:30 in the morning until 9pm at night
which is why I hate rotating through it, IBC in and of itself isn't bad,
just the work load). In terms of topics this has the best balance of
topics for business in my opinion.
West and markiewicz's Building team-based working is good in some
aspects (work based setting) but skips/glosses over all sorts of
important things about team dynamics, processes, etc. Burn Groups
Theory and Pracice is more a social psych book with great detail about
dynamics and processes but no real discussion of business applications.
I was toying with using it instead of Levi because it is less dry and
then add some of the West book or a bit of the Levi book but that isn't
a great solution either.
carolyn@uidaho.edu
Ruth
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