HBR Guide to Leading Teams (HBR Guide Series)

This guide offers advice, exercises, guidelines, and examples related to leading teams. It addresses choosing the right team members, getting to know each other, determining roles and rules of conduct, committing to a team contract, cultivating team members' skills, setting goals, making decisions, rallying support within and outside the team, fostering camaraderie and cooperation, addressing bad behavior, promoting healthy dissent, resolving conflict, holding members accountable, keeping them focused and motivated, and identifying best practices for the next team. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Great teams don’t just happen.How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple decision? What are we even trying to achieve?” As a team leader, you have the power to improve things. It’s up to you to get people to work well together and produce results.Written by team expert Mary Shapiro, the HBR Guide to Leading Teams will help you avoid the pitfalls you’ve experienced in the past by focusing on the often-neglected people side of teams. With practical exercises, guidelines for structured team conversations, and step-by-step advice, this guide will help you:Pick the right team membersSet clear, smart goalsFoster camaraderie and cooperationHold people accountableAddress and correct bad behaviorKeep your team focused and motivated