Tools for Team Leadership: Delivering the X–Factor in Team eXcellence

Jam–packed with over 80 all new and field–tested diagnostic questionnaires, checklists, needs assessments, organizational surveys, and exercises, this self–study training guide puts the power of team leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer, consultant, and team member struggling to help teams succeed.

From the Inside Flap
Gregory Huszczo‘s first book, TOOLS FOR TEAM EXCELLENCE, broke new ground with its seven–point model for building teams in organizations. Now, in this new, much–anticipated guide, Huszczo focuses on the one vital component that separates the great teams built on collaboration and partnership from the also–rans.

TOOLS FOR TEAM LEADERSHIP introduces the critical "X–factor" in team success––leadership––and delivers an advanced set of tools and strategies to help anyone become an effective team leder. Grounded in the author‘s practical frontline experience with hundreds of teams and backed by solid research and instruments, it explores the essence of leadership in a team environment. Huszczo identifies the three chief responsibilities of every team leader––raise awareness, generate options, and plan for success––and presents a comprehensive toolbox for use in analyzing a team‘s strengths and weaknesses, creatively brainstorming strategies and tactics, generating options and facilitating consensus, and implementing action plans that help teams help themselves.

Jam–packed with questionnaires, checklists, needs assessments, organizational surveys, sample training modules and exercises, TOOLS FOR TEAM LEADERSHIP covers teambuilding for both new and existing teams, with special help for teambuilding at the top, and includes a self–study review at the end of each chapter to help turn key learning concepts into a plan of action.

About the Author:

Gregory E. Huszczo, Ph.D., is an award–winning teacher and researcher, an industrial/organizational psychologist, a consultant and trainer, and author of the classic work in the field of team development, TOOLS FOR TEAM EXCELLENCE. With more than thirty years of experience researching, consulting, and teaching in the area of teams, personalities, and leadership, he has worked with more than 100 organizations including Ford Motor Company, Digital Equipment Corporation, La–Z–Boy, Unisys, UAW, Navistar, and the Red Cross, as well as several public sector agencies, school systems, and hospitals. Currently professor of organizational behavior and development at Eastern Michigan University, he also has taught at several other universities and institutes including Michigan State University and The University of Southwestern Louisiana.