This guide offers advice, exercises, guidelines, and examples related to leading teams. It addresses choosing the right team members, getting to know each other, determining roles and rules of conduct, committing to a team contract, cultivating team members' skills, setting goals, making decisions, rallying support within and outside the team, fostering camaraderie and cooperation, addressing bad behavior, promoting healthy dissent, resolving conflict, holding members accountable, keeping them focused and motivated, and identifying best practices for the next team. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Great teams dont just happen.
How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple decision? What are we even trying to achieve? As a team leader, you have the power to improve things. Its up to you to get people to work well together and produce results.
Written by team expert Mary Shapiro, the HBR Guide to Leading Teams will help you avoid the pitfalls youve experienced in the past by focusing on the often-neglected people side of teams. With practical exercises, guidelines for structured team conversations, and step-by-step advice, this guide will help you:
Pick the right team members
Set clear, smart goals
Foster camaraderie and cooperation
Hold people accountable
Address and correct bad behavior
Keep your team focused and motivated