Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support Them

  • 3h 36m
  • Gibb Dyer, Jeff Dyer
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2020

Understand the dynamics of all different types of teams

Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support Them represents the latest in thinking about creating effective teams. The authors present a new “Five C” framework that focuses on the core aspects of team building. The book helps the reader assess how his/her team is performing on each of the 5Cs—context, composition, competencies, change, and collaborative leadership, and discusses options concerning how to improve team performance along each of these dimensions. The book includes:

  • A wealth of examples of effective (and ineffective) teams from such companies as Cisco Systems, Bain & Company, and Amazon
  • New material concerning how to develop effective entrepreneurial and family teams
  • How to manage cross-cultural, virtual, and alliance teams
  • How to create a “team building organization”

This book provides the next generation of team leaders, team members, and team consultants with the knowledge and skills they need to create effective and high functioning teams.

About the Authors

W. GIBB DYER, Jr., (PhD, MIT) is the O. Leslie Stone Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of New Hampshire and IESE in Barcelona, Spain and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bath in the U.K. He has published nine books and over 50 articles and his research has been featured in publications such as Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He has been ranked as one of the top ten scholars in the world in the field of family business. His consulting practice focuses on team building, organization development and management succession.

JEFFREY H. DYER (PhD, UCLA) is the Horace Beesley Distinguished Professor of Strategy at BYU and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He worked previously as a management consultant at Bain & Company and cofounded the Innovator's DNA consultancy. He is the author of two bestsellers, The Innovator's DNA and The Innovator's Method. Among those receiving PhDs after 1990 he was ranked #1 Most Influential Scholar with over 39,000 citations and over 500,000 Google searches to his name. As a speaker and consultant he has worked with prominent organizations like Adobe, AT&T, Intel, J&J, Microsoft and GSK.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • The Five CS of Team Performance
  • Context—The Foundation of team Effectiveness
  • Composition—Putting the Right People on the Team
  • Competencies—Team Skills That are Needed for High Performance
  • Change Management—How Effective Teams Improve Their Performance
  • Collaborative Leadership—The Role of the Team Leader
  • Designing Effective Team-Building Programs
  • Specific Team-Building Interventions to Address Team Problems
  • Team Building in Temporary, Cross-Cultural, and Virtual Teams
  • Team Building in Alliance, Entrepreneurial, and Family Teams
  • Creating a Team-Building Organization
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