Tools For Team Leadership: Delivering The X-Factor In Team Excellence

"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 master the role of team leader. Grounded in the author's practical frontline experience with hundreds of teams and backed by solid research and instruments, including the powerful Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(r) assessment, the book identifies the chief responsibilities of a team leader and delivers a power-packed toolbox for 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. It covers team building for both new and established teams, with special help for team building 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.

Gregory E. Huszczo, PhD, is an award-winning teacher and researcher, a licensed psychologist, a consultant and trainer, and an author. His clients include Ford Motor Company, Digital Equipment Corporation, La-Z-Boy, Unisys, AFSCME, Navistar and the Red Cross. Huszczo is currently professor of organizational behavior and development at Eastern Michigan University.