Team Building

Note that the reader might best be served to first read the topic Group Dynamics to understand the basic nature of most groups and their typical stages of development. (It's not clear at this time if online groups have similar nature and stages.)

Sections of This Topic Include:

Basics of Team Building
Building Informal Work Teams
Ensuring Effectiveness/Performance of Teams
Additional Perspectives
Facilitation Library

Basics of Team Building

7 Steps to Success
The Basics of Team Building
How to Build a Team
Building the Winning Team: Small Business Managing People - Business Town
3 Types Teams and Characteristics of Good Teams
Developing a Team or Organization Vision
The 5 P's Of Team Design And Development For Managers
Ten Ways Leadership Can Motivate Team Building And Performance
Five Characteristics Of A Great Team
Planning a Team Building Event
Free General Team Building Activities
Free Team Building Activities For New Teams
Free Motivational Team Building Activities
Free Communication Focused Team Building Activities
Free Trust Focused Team Building Activities
Team Building: Top 10 Team Building Pitfalls

Building Informal Work Groups

Team Building: Informal Groups at Work
Team Building: Formation of Informal Work Groups
Team Building: Leadership of Informal Work Groups
Team Building: Communications of Informal Work Groups (The Grapevine)
Team Building: Informal Group Cohesiveness
Team Building: Informal Group Norms -- Unspoken Rules
Team Building: Changing Informal Work Group/ Team Norms

Effectiveness of Teams

Quality in Teams
High Performance Team
Being a Valuable Team Member
Building High Performance Teams
New-Highest Performing Teams: A Potent Combination of 12 Proven Team Best Practices!
The Importance of Team Governance
New Leaders Needed
Are You Challenging Your Winners?
An Organisation’s Most Valuable Resource is its Staff
5 Tips to Help Teams Perform Under Pressure

Additional Perspectives

Essay: The Life Cycles of Executive Teams
MANAGING TEAM PERF: UNREALISTIC VISION OR ATTAINABLE REALITY?
IS TEAMWORK LIKE RIDING A BICYCLE?
Groups that Work
Leader to Leader: Winter 1998
Leader to Leader: Winter 1997
Team Climate Survey
Culture Change Starts with the Management Team
Team Building: Why Now?
Tools for Collaborative Strategic Planning
5 Steps to Successful Event Management
Teamwork and Team Trust – the Key to Winning
Team Building: Calculating Team Building R.O.I.
Teamwork Sayings ... How to Use Quotes for Team Motivation
Does “Team Building” Actually Work?

General Resources

ASTD
Commercial Solutions Reading Room
list of team building resources
Leadership Development Blog
Team Building Primer

For the Category of Facilitation and Teams:

Recommended Books

Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business: by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC.
Includes step-by-step guidelines, tips and tools to effectively lead:
1. Yourself
2. Other individuals in the business
3. Groups and teams in the business
4. Business organizations
5. As well as all functions within the business organization.

Many of the Library's materials about business, leadership and management are adapted from this book. Just click on the title of the book above to see the Index and Table of Contents.

Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision With Nonprofit Staff: by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC.
Includes step-by-step guidelines, tips and tools customized for personnel in nonprofits to effectively lead:
1. Yourself
2. Other individuals in the nonprofit
3. Groups and teams in the nonprofit
4. Nonprofit organizations
5. As well as all functions within the nonprofit organization.

Many of the Library's materials about nonprofit leadership and management are adapted from this book. Just click on the title of the book above to see the Index and Table of Contents.

The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.