Teamwork Is an Individual Skill : Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility
Knowing how to work effectively in and through groups may be the single most important skill anyone can develop in today's collaborative, team-based workplace. Unfortunately, all of the resources available on teamwork put the emphasis on group process and ignore the role of-and benefits to-the individual. But effective teamwork isn't only a group skill set; it's an individual skill set as well. Teamwork Is an Individual Skill shows readers how to develop the skills to thrive on any team, under any circumstances. No longer will readers find themselves complaining, ""I got assigned to a bad team
1 online resource (143 pages)
9781605094106, 1605094102
1049933186
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Developing TeamWisdom for Personal Success
What Is Team Wisdom?
Understanding Hierarchies and Teams
To Take Full Advantage of TeamWisdom You Must Change Your Habits of Mind
How Do You Get Things Done without Control?
Playing a Win/Win Game in a Win/Lose World
1 Teamwork As an Individual- Not Group-Skill
What Is "TeamWisdom?"
Teamwork As an Individual Event
Agree to Response-Ability
Is Your Silence Consent?
The Benefit of Showing You Can Be Provoked. Experience Judgments Completely So You Can Clear Them Away
An Upset Is an Opportunity to Learn
Conceive New Relationships as Avenues of Contribution
The Gift of a "Present Hero"
Master Your Intentions
Living and Working "on" Purpose
2 Creating Powerful Partnerships
What's in It for Them?
It's in Your Interest to Be Helpful to Other People
Protect the Interests of Other People
The Miracle of Efficient Gifts
Celebrate the Successes of Other People
Appreciate Conflict
Distinguish Criticism from Feedback
What about Their Integrity? End with the Beginning in Mind
All Teams Need Closure
3 Collaborating "on" Purpose
Clarity Is the Source of Power
Come Together Over Commitment and Skills Will Follow
Teammates Don't Have to Like Each Other
Stop Trying to Motivate
How Do You Know if Your Team Is "Built"?
Who Is the Most Powerful Member of Your Team?
Consensus
Fast Consensus
Don't Rely on a "Common Enemy" for a Sustainable Goal
Reorient the Relationship for Renewed Direction and Energy
4 Trusting Just Right
Trust Reflects Responsibility
The Formula for Building Trust. How to Trust Just Right
Talking about Violations of Trust
"Calling" Others on Broken Agreements
Clean Up Broken Agreements
Acknowledge Mistakes
Apologize Effectively
How to Make Amends
How to Recommit after Making Amends
5 The Collaborative Mindset
Play a "Big" Game Instead of a "Small" One
The TeamWisdom Theory of Relativity
Honor Differences
Competitor or Antagonist?
Intentional and Reactive Relationship Outcomes
Value Both the Task and the People Performing the Task
Keys to Extraordinary Collaboration
The Bedrock of Collaboration. Expansion Is the Collaborative Leader's Most Powerful Tool
Relationship Integrity Makes Collaboration Possible
Integrate for Expansion: Expand for Integration
Conclusion: Demonstrating TeamWisdom from This Point Forward
Choose to Demonstrate TeamWisdom
Commit to the Journey
A Five-Step Action Plan
Own Your Results
Associate with People Who Expect TeamWisdom
Take Baby Steps
Notes
Index
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