
Creating Effective Teams
A Guide for Members and Leaders
Susan A. Wheelan(Author)
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 1. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-4522-1707-9 (ISBN)
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Description
"Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders, 4th Edition" is a practical guide for building and sustaining top performing teams. Based on the author's many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sector, the Fourth Edition describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them productive.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4522-1707-9 (9781452217079)
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Person
Susan A. Wheelan, PhD, is president of GDQ Associates, Inc. She was professor of Psychological Studies and faculty director of the Training and Development Center at Temple University. She has worked in a number of school, hospital, and clinical settings. Dr. Wheelan received Temple University's Great Teacher Award in 1992. She is coeditor of The Lewin Legacy: Field Theory in Current Practice and Advances in Field Theory. She coauthored How to Discipline Without Feeling Guilty. Dr. Wheelan is the author of Facilitating Training Groups, Group Processes: A Developmental Perspective, The Handbook of Group Research and Practice, and Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders. She has written numerous articles for publication as well. Dr. Wheelan has provided consultation to a wide variety of organizations. She has led workshops and training seminars on such topics as Executive Development, The Role of the Internal Consultant, Working in Teams, Management Skills, Communication Skills, Dealing With Difficult Employees, Leadership, Conflict Management, and many more. She has been an invited speaker in Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, and throughout the United States. Topics included group and organizational development, diversity, and conflict management.
Content
Why Groups? From Groups to Teams: The Stages of Group Development Navigating Stage 1 Surviving Stage 2 Reorganizing at Stage 3 Sustaining High Performance How Do High Performance Teams Function? Effective Team Members Effective Team Leadership Effective Organizational Support for Teams Bibliography Index About the Author