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50 Activities for Self-Directed Teams

Another book co-authored with Dick Kropp, this was the first volume to provide trainers and facilitators with practical assessment tools and exercises for organizations and teams embarking on the road to self-management.

The book is divided into three sections:

1. Getting Started. Here you will find activities designed to help senior management determine if their culture supports empowerment, how to change the culture, how to assess a team's readiness for self-direction, how to get a team off the ground and planning for the transfer of decision-making authority.
2. Building and Maintaining the Team. In this, the largest section of the manual, there are exercises to break the ice, build trust, resolve conflict, improve team meetings, develop problem-solving skills, prepare flow charts, assess team effectiveness, develop norms and values, improve inter-group teamwork and build a solid team.
3. Special Issues. This section includes team building issues unique to self-directed teams such as leadership, dealing with team stagnation and the changing role of the supervisor.

Activities address a variety of topics:

• Organizational Readiness
• Start-up
• Interpersonal relationships
• Problem-solving
• Meetings
• Team Assessment
• Team Building
• Role of the Coach
• Team Leadership
• Stagnation

250 pages/3-ring binder