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‘Leading your team: How to involve and inspire teams’ by Andrew Leigh and Michael Maynard, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2nd Edition, 2002
Find and read this useful guide to leading a team, including content on effective feedback and managing virtual teams.
You do not need to buy this book, you should be able to borrow it from your local library service.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Laser Learning reading text’
- ‘10 steps to setting SMART objectives’ by George Ambler
- ‘Leading your team: How to involve and inspire teams’ by Andrew Leigh and Michael Maynard, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2nd Edition, 2002
- ‘Team Building’ webpage on the Management Study Guide website
- ‘Leadership theories’ webpage on the Business Balls website
- ‘Personality theories, types and tests’ webpage from the MindTools website
- ‘ERG Theory of Motivation’ webpage on the Management Study Guide website
- ‘Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: Classic definitions and new directions’ by Richard Ryan and Edward Deci
- ‘Monitoring the team’s performance’ by the Institute of Leadership and Management
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read the document ‘Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance?’ by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
- Click to visit the website of Engage for Success, a website dedicated to helping employers increase employee engagement and therefore increase performance and productivity.
- Click to read ‘Performance management’ on the BusinessBalls website. This article explores performance management in a business environment and gives useful tips.
- Find and read ‘The wisdom of teams: Creating the high-performance organization’ by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, published by Harper Business. Pay particular attention to chapter 4 ‘High-performance teams: Very useful models’. N.B. You should be able to find a copy at your local library service.
- Think And Challenge
- Have another look at Tuckman’s four stages of team development and Lencioni’s five dysfunctions of a team. If you need more information, look back over the lesson and use the internet to research it further.
Think about any team of which you have been a founder member. Examine your experiences in relation to the theories of either Tuckman or Lencioni.
- List two positive experiences and two negative experiences
- How would you develop the team differently?
- It is rare that there is just one way to respond to a scenario or situation, so do not consider that the response you have chosen to this scenario will be judged as right or wrong. Share your scenario with a work colleague and ask them to tell you if they think you have responded appropriately. Ask them to challenge your response if necessary. You do not need to submit this task for assessment unless asked to do so by your tutor.
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