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Teams And Team-Building

Teaching Team Behaviors Earlier...Much Earlier

 By Peter Grazier - Did you ever wonder why adults seem to struggle when assigned to a new workplace team of some kind? As organizations increase their use of teams, the “new”skills and behaviors required seem to challenge everyone. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 1285 )

Living with Self-Directed Work Teams - and a Review of Herzberg's concepts

 By Peter Grazier - As the concept of self-direction continues to grow, it helps to look at the basic principles involved. Sometimes this is best served by listening to the people who are actually living it. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 1538 )

The Trouble With Team

 By Russ Giles - In an older, more rugged-individualist business model, the word 'team' was seldom used. There were departments, managers and staffs, even secretarial pools, but not many teams. However, today 'team' and 'team player' are spread all over corporations like ketchup at a truck stop cafe. (Added: 1-Oct-2002 Hits: 766 )

Groupthink

 By NA - Groupthink is a concept that was identified by Irving Janis9 that refers to faulty decision-making in a group. Groups experiencing groupthink do not consider all alternatives and they desire unanimity at the expense of quality decisions. Learn more about groupthink and then complete the interactive exercise at the end of the discussion. (Added: 6-Oct-2003 Hits: 644 )

Essay: The Life Cycles of Executive Teams

 By NA - Do you really want a highly cohesive and highly effective management team? Sounds logical, is taught in MBA programs, and is sought by OD specialists. However, it isn't strategically viable or productive! Read on to find out why. (Added: 26-May-2002 Hits: 692 )

Values and Beliefs as Barriers to Team Consensus

 By Peter Grazier - Recently I have been engaged in an Internet discussion with some people about the difficulties in reaching a team consensus. It seems that most teams will struggle with this once in a while. Some of the people felt that one reason we fail to reach a consensus is that much of the discussion is based on opinions rather than facts. It's much easier to express an opinion than to do the work associated with uncovering facts. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 1179 )

 

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