Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders - Softcover

Wheelan, Susan A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412913764 ISBN 13: 9781412913768

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders is a practical guide for building and sustaining top performing teams. Based on the author′s many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sector, the Second Edition describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them productive.

New to the Edition:

Offers necessary tools to help members and leaders work together to achieve high performance

Enhanced information about the design and management of meetings

Incorporates real-life examples and questionnaires giving readers the opportunity for self-evaluation

A bestseller in its First Edition, Creating Effective Teams, Second Edition is sure to be a perfect fit for team leaders and members, trainers, managers, consultants, psychologists, military, and educators. Students enrolled in organizational studies, management, human resources, social psychology, education, group studies, leadership, sociology, and communication courses may also benefit from this bestseller.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Wheelan was president of GDQ Associates, Inc. Until 2001, she was a professor

of psychological studies and faculty director of the Training and Development Center

at Temple University. Dr. Wheelan received Temple University’s Great Teacher Award

in 1992. She also worked as a psychologist in a number of hospital and clinical settings.

Dr. Wheelan was the author of Facilitating Training Groups; Group Processes: A

Developmental Perspective; Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders;

and Faculty Groups: From Frustration to Collaboration. She was editor of the Handbook

of Group Research and Practice and coeditor of The Lewin Legacy: Field Theory in Current

Practice and Advances in Field Theory. She wrote 66 research articles for publication.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412913764
• ISBN 13: 9781412913768
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160