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Best Practices For Teams, Volume 2

This all new second volume of the best-selling Best Practices for Teams series contains the latest thinking and techniques from over 40 team experts. This 1998 collection of exercises, instruments, cases, articles and resource reviews covers current team topics from measuring, rewarding, and managing the performance of teams to dealing with new issues like virtual teams and computer-based groupware.

Once again, all materials in the book are fully reproducible for use with teams. In addition, all of the materials are included on diskette making it simple to customize them to your audience.

Volume 2 includes:

• 6 Creative team building activities including new games by Thiagi and Lorraine Ukens
• 8 new instruments covering topics such as trust, environment support and self-direction.
• 6 insightful case studies that address such things as removing a poor performer and self-management.
• 7 practical theory pieces that deal with competencies, vision, peer evaluation and leadership among others.
• 6 articles on organizational issues for team development such as incentives, virtual teams, peer review and measurement of team results.
• Review of resources on self-directed teams and group software applications.

Contributors include some of the world's best known consultants, trainers and authors working in the field of teams: Lynn Kearney, Linda Moran, Darcy Hitchcock, Harvey Robbins, Glenn Varney, Deborah Mackin, Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, Jack Zigon, Jill George, Lorraine Ukens, Charles Manz and Louis Quast.

Leading organizations such as DDI, Zenger-Miller, Prism Performance Systems and the Center for the Study of Work Teams contributed their latest thinking to the book.

550 pages/3-ring binder with diskette/$89.95. Order from HRD Press. Call 1-800-822-2801, Fax: 1-413-253-3490 or visit their web site: www.hrdpress.com.