Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Chapter 1: The 5Cs of Team Performance

Chapter 2: Context: The Foundation of Team Effectiveness

Chapter 3: Composition: Putting the Right People on the Team

Chapter 4: Competencies: Team Skills that are Needed for High Performance

Chapter 5: Change Management: How Effective Teams Improve Their Performance

Chapter 6: Collaborative Leadership: The Role of the Team Leader

Chapter 7: Designing Effective Team Building Programs

Chapter 8: Specific Team Building Interventions to Manage Address Team Problems

Chapter 9: Team Building in Temporary, Cross-Cultural and Virtual Teams

Chapter 10: Team Building in Alliance, Entrepreneurial and Family Teams

Chapter 11: Creating a Team Building Organization

Index

Create a team-building organization

In business, in sports, and even within families, effective teamwork is a key to success. This continues to be true even in this era of virtual teams and special scenarios that complicate the team environment. Beyond Team Building is a distillation of decades of wisdom on the best ways to assess team effectiveness, identify appropriate interventions, and bake teamwork into the culture of your organization.

Learn the five dimensions of effective teamwork, how to assess your team's performance in each dimension, and what to do if you want to see better results through team improvement.

• Context – Create an environment that promotes flourishing teams
• Composition – Build teams that work well together and challenge one another
• Competencies – Identify skills that can take team performance to the next level
• Change – Promote development even in well-oiled teams for better results
• Collaborative Leadership – Give team leaders the edge they need

These "5 Cs" of effective teamwork can infuse new life into teams of all kinds. Self-assessment surveys and practical intervention tools make it easy for you to determine where your team stands and see the path forward to greater heights. Even temporary teams and virtual teams will benefit from these insights.

Experience—and the examples in this book—shows that ineffective teamwork can act as a throttle to organizations and groups large and small. Team leaders, team members, and teamwork consultants can create high-functioning teams with the core knowledge and focused guidance in Beyond Team Building. Team building can and should become ingrained in the day-to-day operations of your organization. This book will show you how!

In the 1970s, Bill Dyer created a revolutionary approach to team building that has been fundamental to businesses looking to improve teamwork. Now, with Beyond Team Building, that classic model receives a much-anticipated update for the contemporary business environment. In this book, Gibb Dyer and Jeff Dyer distill their five-dimensional model of team building into a powerhouse guide to assessing, diagnosing, and improving teams across organizations of all types.

Beyond Team Building is for anyone who understands that teamwork must be built into the core of any enterprise if that enterprise is to succeed. Many approaches to team building focus on fixing broken teams by bringing them up to par. Readers of this book will be empowered to far exceed that modest goal, because the "5 C" model of team building emphasizes pushing teams to new heights and creating a "team building organization." Assessing existing problems and identifying solutions is just the first step. Infusing teamwork into the very core of a business (or family, or any other type of team environment) is what this time-tested approach is all about.

A notable update to Bill Dyer's classic theory is the addition of a focus on collaborative leadership, emphasizing the role of the team leader. Only today are we beginning to fully understand the importance of collaboration in organizations, and Beyond Team Building is leading the way with action steps in this crucial area. Team leaders often do not receive adequate training for leadership, and this book fills this gap by outlining the characteristics of effective team leaders—and addressing what can be done when team leaders are not living up to their potential regarding this crucial role. The book includes insights from interviews with transformative leaders like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Nike CEO Mark Parker.

Professionals will appreciate the practical orientation in this concise and focused guide. Self-assessment surveys, intervention plans, and real-world examples will enable leaders and team members alike to dive right into intensive team building, without getting bogged down in theory. The authors even address specialized scenarios, from temporary teams and virtual teams to teamwork within the family. Comprehensive yet succinct, this book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to make their team—or teams more effective.