Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • A group is not a team
  • All teams are not self-directed
  • Not every organization is ready for self-directed teams
  • Making it work
  • Activities support the team process
  • References
  • Index to Activities
  • Section I: Getting started
  • 1. Success factors
  • 2. Readiness rating
  • 3. Self-directed team (SDT) stages
  • 4. Roadblocks
  • 5. Third wave
  • 6. Show and tell: getting ready for self-direction
  • 7. Surfacing a team identity
  • 8. The reality of self-direction
  • 9. Responsibility charting
  • Section II: Building and maintaining the team
  • 10. Valuing diversity
  • 11. Dip your toe in the water
  • 12. Self-test for self-direction
  • 13. Ready, set ... go?
  • 14. Collaboration in the workplace: A must for self-directed teams
  • 15. Climate headline
  • 16. Building a culture of self-direction in the workplace
  • 17. A personal action planner for building self-directed teams
  • 18. Self-directed structures
  • 19. Resolving differences
  • 20. Hot buttons
  • 21. Self-directed values exercise
  • 22. Similarities and differences
  • 23. Building trust among self-directed team players
  • 24. Shop 'til you ...
  • 25. Self-directed team culture survey
  • 26. Go with the flow
  • 27. The power of an agenda
  • 28. Creativity break
  • 29. Quotable quotes
  • 30. Workplace trust
  • 31. Past-present-future: Charting a self-directed teams path
  • 32. No team is an island
  • 33. Ivory pure quality
  • 34. Team values
  • 35. Process analysis
  • 36. Guiding past and future team practices
  • 37. Meetings and self-directed norms
  • 38. Meeting monsters
  • 39. The weather report: A culture report
  • 40. How do I feel about all this? Assessing my readiness for self-direction
  • 41. The wish list
  • 42. Clarifying team values
  • Section III: Special Issues
  • 43. The self-directed team coach
  • 44. Leadership characteristics
  • 45. Supervisory scenarios
  • 46. What would you do if ...
  • 47. You know you're stagnating when ...
  • 48. Animal grid
  • 49. Assessing your team leader effectiveness
  • 50. Just for fun
  • About the authors
  • Last Page.