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Named the Best Management Book of 2021 by strategy+businessNamed one of'this month's top titles'in the Financial Times in September 2021Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Management & Culture categoryA plan for conquering collaborative overload to drive performance and innovation, reduce burnout, and enhance well-being.Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Collaborative work consumes 85% of employees'time and is drifting earlier into the morning, later into the night, and deeper into the weekend.The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. But conventional wisdom on teamwork and collaboration has created too much of the wrong kind of collaboration, which hurts our performance, health and overall well-being.In Beyond Collaboration Overload, Babson professor Rob Cross solves this paradox by showing how top performers who thrive at work collaborate in a more purposeful way that makes them 18-24% more efficient than their peers. Good collaborators are distinguished by the efficiency and intentionality of their collaboration—not the size of their network or the length of their workday.Through landmark research with more than 300 organizations, in-depth stories, and tools, Beyond Collaboration Overload will coach you to reclaim close to a day a week when you:Identify and challenge beliefs that lead you to collaborate too quicklyImpose structure in your work to prevent unproductive collaborationAlter behaviors to create more efficient collaborationIt then outlines how successful people invest this reclaimed time to:Cultivate a broad network—not a big one—for innovation and scaleEnergize others—a strong predictor of high performanceConnect with others to reduce micro-stressors and enhance physical and mental well-beingCross'framework provides relief from the definitive problem of our age—dysfunctional collaboration at the expense of our performance, health and overall well-being.

Break down the barriers to effective collaboration.For cross-functional projects to work, you need to bring together diverse ideas and resources from across your organization. But office politics, conflicting objectives, and lack of clear authority can get in the way.The HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams provides practical tips and advice to help you collaborate more effectively. Whether you're leading your own direct reports or building a talented group from disparate parts of your organization, you'll discover how to align others'goals and skills so you can solve problems as a team and deliver great results.You'll learn to:Develop a shared purposeBust departmental silosLead employees who don't report to youOvercome conflict and turf warsPrevent collaborative overload and fatigueUse the right tools for virtual information sharingArm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Teamwork 9.0 cracks the code for extraordinary team effectiveness. In this book, Matt Schlegel shows you how to use the Enneagram as a basis for team analysis and team-based problem solving. This thought-provoking text uses neuroscience and real-world case studies to illustrate how the nine Enneagram dynamics fit together like pieces of a puzzle to optimize your team for success. In Teamwork 9.0, you will learn about the unique strengths that each Enneagram type brings to problem solving as well as each type's underlying motivations, leadership characteristics, and other key traits. All of these qualities contribute to successful problem solving, and the Enneagram provides the framework for understanding when, why, and how to apply each personality dynamic. Struggling teams will appreciate the diagnostic tools and suggestions for adjustments, and high-performing teams will learn how to maintain and replicate their success as teams and projects change. Teamwork 9.0 explains how to put the right people on the right projects at the right time.

Für erfolgreiche Teamarbeit sind schon viele Techniken entwickelt worden: Brainstorming, Synectics, 7 x 7-Technik, Checklisten usw. Dieses Buch bietet dem Leser einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Kreativitäts- und Konferenztechniken und deren psychologische Grundlagen. Frankes Darstellung orientiert sich an den Phasen des Problemlösungsprozesses vom Erkennen bis zur Lösung des Problems. Im letzten Teil kann der Leser sein eigenes Problemlösungsverhalten auf den Prüfstand stellen. Durch den praxisorientierten Aufbau ist das Buch gut zum Selbststudium oder als Seminargrundlage geeignet.

An organization's fate hinges on its CEO—right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives are turning to their enterprise's senior leaders for help. Yet many CEOs stumble when creating a leadership team. One major challenge is that senior executives often focus more on their individual roles than on the top team's shared work. Without the CEO's careful attention to setting the team up correctly, these high-powered managers often have difficulty pulling together to move their organization forward. Sometimes they don't even agree about what constitutes the right path forward. The authors explain how to determine whether your organization needs a senior leadership team. Then, drawing on their study of 100+ top teams from around the world, they explain how to create a clear and compelling purpose for your team, get the right people on it, provide structure and support, and sharpen team members'competencies - and your own. Timely and practical, this book enables you to create and sustain a leadership team whose members learn from one another while collaborating to pursue your company's objectives.

When people work together over time, certain key events stand out as having the potential to teach lasting lessons for the future. Leaders can use the Critical Reflections process to help their groups learn these lessons, whether the key event was a great success or a wretched failure. The goal is to affect future outcomes in similar situations: either to repeat the current success or to avoid repeating the same mistake.

This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective facilitator. The book addresses a variety of facilitation opportunities, challenges, and problems and also contains A variety of verbal and nonverbal facilitation techniques Step-by-step facilitation processes and tools Information on how to facilitate conflict resolution in groups and how to facilitate difficult situations Instructions for designing and leading group work Examples of how various levels of facilitator competency are called for in different types of groups Techniques for facilitating meetings, teams, virtual teams, and organization-wide projects Discussions on the art of facilitating and what makes a great facilitator