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Collective Excellence: Building Effective Teams

Abstract

  • This user-friendly guide thoroughly examines teamwork in the engineering workplace, offering team members at all levels tips, techniques, and precautions for better management and optimum productivity. The second edition is thoroughly updated and includes four new chapters expanding coverage of topics for current and future success with a team approach to work. New topics include vital team tools; team member responsibilities; team development through feedback; and overcoming separation in time or space.

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Front Matter
i–ix
    Chapter 1 Teams and Teamwork: The Potential
    1–2
    Chapter 2 What Are "Teams" and Where Do We Find Them?
    3–8
    Chapter 3 Benefits and Value of a "Team" Approach
    9–14
    Chapter 4 Common Misconceptions about Teams
    15–19
    Chapter 5 Leader and Team Member Roles
    21–24
    Chapter 6 Stages of Group Development
    25–29
    Chapter 7 How to Develop Further as a Team
    31–36
    Chapter 8 Most Important Team Tools
    37–43
    Chapter 9 How Not to Foster Team Development
    45–48
    Chapter 10 Differing Styles, Personalities and Cultures
    49–56
    Chapter 11 Responsibilities of Individual Team Members
    57–58
    Chapter 12 Team Development Through Feedback
    59–62
    Chapter 13 Getting Your Group or Team Unstuck
    63–68
    Chapter 14 Conflict: Handling Differences in Groups and Teams
    69–74
    Chapter 15 Overcoming Separation in Time or Space
    75–77
    Chapter 16 Shared Leadership in Groups and Teams
    79–84
    Chapter 17 Teams Are the Best Development Vehicles
    85–87
    Chapter 18 Team Versus Individual Recognition and Rewards
    89–94
    Chapter 19 Project Team Leadership
    95–99
    Chapter 20 Precautions for Pitfalls and Pratfalls
    101–107
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    Chapter 21:
    Resources
    109–111
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      Index
      113–114
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        Back Matter
        115–115