In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

This book is a comprehensive resource book that provides everything you need to know to create high performing teams.

Your Road Map to Teamwork Success in any Entrepreneurial Company Making the shift from a large organization to a smaller entrepreneurial company seems like a dream come true for many. But the transition from a rigid environment to a more fluid one that focuses on relationships and the value each employee brings means a change in mindset. While working with Strategic Coach(R) Program team members, Shannon Waller saw these challenges first hand. Using her experience in creating successful entrepreneurial companies, she created a collection of teamwork strategies. By adopting these 12 Entrepreneurial Attitudes, team members can become increasingly valuable to their organization and transform their "job" into a source of endlessly expanding personal growth and meaningful rewards. This guidebook will help you: - Recognize your Unique Ability(R) and learn how to integrate it in life and work. - Develop and maintain an Entrepreneurial Attitude. - Maximize personal contributions and professional rewards. - Lose your fear of sharing insights and ideas with the company. - Begin to live in the Results Economy, not the Time-and-Effort Economy. - Build and maintain the trust of Entrepreneur. - Experience functioning as the Entrepreneur's valued partner. - Exchange personal perfectionism for company-wide collaboration. - Become a highly effective communicator by learning how to share information the way others need to receive it and receive it the way others share it. - Achieve new levels of patience, compassion, and perseverance. Experience a new level of Team Success, starting today!

In today's fast changing, hyper-competitive environment, teamwork and co-operative working enhance the organisation's adaptive capability. The team, rather than the individual, is increasingly seen as the building block of organisations and a key source of competitive advantage. The International Handbook of Organisational Teamwork and Co-operative Working provides a clear focus on the psychological and social processes that can stimulate successful cooperation and teamwork. Michael West, Dean Tjosvold and Ken Smith have brought together the world's leading authorities from a range of social science disciplines to provide a contemporary review of established and emerging perspectives. Throughout the book, processes that both facilitate and obstruct successful cooperation and teamwork are detailed, alongside guidance on best practice and methodology. The challenging and alternative perspectives presented will inform future research and practice. The result is a systematic and comprehensive synthesis of knowledge from a range of disciplines that will prove invaluable to professionals, researchers and students alike. * A systematic and coherent framework which organizes and structures the knowledge in this field * An outstanding collection of authoritative "high profile" authors * Challenging, alternative perspectives that will stimulate and enlighten future research and practice * Selective, updated bibliographies of key literatures support every chapter, a valuable resource for students, trainers and practitioners

Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In each chapter, authors describe how this has altered the meaning of IO research within a particular subdomain and what steps must be taken to avoid IO research from becoming obsolete. This Handbook presents a forward-looking review of IO psychology's understanding of both workplace technology and how technology is used in IO research methods. Using interdisciplinary perspectives to further this understanding and serving as a focal text from which this research will grow, it tackles three main questions facing the field. First, how has technology affected IO psychological theory and practice to date? Second, given the current trends in both research and practice, could IO psychological theories be rendered obsolete? Third, what are the highest priorities for both research and practice to ensure IO psychology remains appropriately engaged with technology moving forward?

A state-of-the-art psychological perspective on team working and collaborative organizational processes This handbook makes a unique contribution to organizational psychology and HRM by providing comprehensive international coverage of the contemporary field of team working and collaborative organizational processes. It provides critical reviews of key topics related to teams including design, diversity, leadership, trust processes and performance measurement, drawing on the work of leading thinkers including Linda Argote, Neal Ashkanasy, Robert Kraut, Floor Rink and Daan van Knippenberg.