You want to start working on the next steps in your career. Your boss made remarks in your last performance review that you want to take action on. You know now the kind of leader you aspire to be and want to pursue your aspirations. You have an "enduring weakness" that motivates you to improve. You feel bored or stale in your current job and want to develop new capabilities. If you've experienced those things or have had similar experiences, then you know that what makes you successful now won't take you to the next level of performance or leadership. Successful leaders have the ability to adapt, change, and reinvent themselves. They thrive on change. Do you? The FIVE STEPS in Change Now! will help you become the leader you aspire to be by guiding you through a process of change. Use this book to identify where to focus your development energy,create goals that work for you,craft a plan for achieving your goals,overcome obstacles,and stay on course. Don't wait. Become the leader you want to be, the leader you need to be.

Change Now! Five Steps to Better Leadership

Business & Money

Kanaga, Kim

Leslie, Jean Brittain

Scisco, Peter

Management & Leadership

Center for Creative Leadership

Despite all of the attention and accolades that organizations place on teams, they are not always the most efficient way to meet a business challenge. It’s expensive and time consuming to launch a team, and it’s a full-time job to lead a team toward achieving organizational objectives. This guidebook was written to help managers determine if a team is the right tool for meeting a business goal, and explains potential obstacles and challenges to forming a team that can operate at its full potential.

Do You Really Need a Team?

Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

Kossler, Michael E.

Pfeiffer

Team success doesn’t start with results. It starts with the building of an effective team that can deliver on its promise. This book is for managers and leaders who have responsibility for the creation and success of teams. If you are a department head or project manager, or if you are the senior-level champion or sponsor of a proposed team, this guidebook will help you understand the five factors critical to building effective teams and show you how to use those factors to lay the groundwork for successful teams.

How to Form a Team: Five Keys to High Performance

When an organization sponsors a team, it’s usually to address a challenge deemed essential to organizational success. Meeting that challenge might mean implementing new ways of working, entering new markets, or developing a new product. Teams can produce innovative solutions, but leading them toward that goal can be difficult. Getting the team off on the right foot is critical to its success. To launch a team in a way that increases its chance of success, managers and team leaders should pay attention to four critical points: setting purpose and direction, defining roles and responsibilities, designing procedures and practices, and building cooperation and relationships. Understanding and implementing these elements is key to a successful launch and, in the end, essential to a team’s achieving the organization’s goals.

How to Launch a Team: Start Right for Success

Prestridge, Sonya

Between the time a team is launched and the time it delivers results, managers need to know that the team is on course. Whether they have launched a team to achieve a business objective or have inherited a team, they need to monitor effectiveness on an ongoing basis and make course corrections that keep small problems from becoming major disasters. Monitoring and maintaining team performance is a key element of leading a team. You can provide that leadership by paying attention to four important dimensions: team member effort, team member knowledge and skills, team tactics, and group dynamics. By focusing on those four areas, you can assess your team’s performance, zero in on areas of weakness, and take the corrective measures necessary to ensure peak performance and to deliver expected results.

Maintaining Team Performance

Browning, Henry

As the leader of a team, your responsibility includes monitoring and maintaining its performance. Using the suggestions and tools in this guidebook, you will be able to zero in on areas of weakness and take the corrective measures that will fix particular problems. It will help you keep your team on course so that it can deliver the results the organization is looking for.

Maintaining Team Performance (Ideas into Action Guidebooks)

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