When Teams Work: How to develop and lead a high-performing team

This book explores the secrets of high-performing teams from sports, military, and restaurants and provides practical tools for improving teamwork and performance. It draws on the combined experience of authors Nigel Melville and Mike Brent, who have worked with sports and organizational teams.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 21 July 2022
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited

Teams are an integral part of our lives, whether at work or play. They are everywhere, from department teams to sales teams, planning teams to project teams. We also join sports teams, netball teams, swimming teams, bridge teams, and dance teams. However, despite the prevalence of teams, we often know little about them, what makes a successful team, and why teams fail. Effective teamworking is a perennial challenge, with numerous difficulties and traps. We have all experienced these problems firsthand and suffered from them.

This book aims to help you and your team identify the most common issues and provide you with the tools to improve teamwork and achieve better performance. It will explore how sports and business teams are developed and work, as well as giving examples and learning lessons from specialist teams in various areas such as the military, restaurants, orchestras, aerobatics, and many more. These examples will be woven throughout the book, and lessons drawn about what we can learn for our own teams.

Developing high-performance teams and effective teamwork is a perennial issue for team leaders and team members alike. Most of us work in teams, yet few of us have the capacity to fully assimilate what it takes to resolve common issues such as conflict, low engagement, lack of purpose, and accountability in teams.

This book is for team players, team leads, and anyone who wants to get the best out of themselves and others and avoid the common pitfalls that prevent teams from being the best they can be. It will provide you with practical strategies and insights to help you build and lead successful teams, and achieve your goals and objectives.

So, whether you are a team leader looking to improve your team's performance, or a team member seeking to enhance your skills and contribute more effectively, this book is for you. Let's embark on this journey together and unlock the secrets to high-performing teams!

Weight: 294g
Dimension: 243 x 207 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781292278483