Shop the "Aisles" of this book for all the team-building tools you'll ever need! In Team Depot, author, consultant, and team-building expert, Glenn Parker, provides you with everything you need to revive and rehabilitate your team. Team leaders of all types, from educators to youth group leaders to board members to corporate trainers will put the contents of this book to good use. With chapters formatted as "aisles" you can pick and choose the tools that you have on shopping list now and pick up a few more later. Aisles include tools for: * Revisiting your team's goals * Redefining team members' roles * Reestablishing ground rules * Rejuvenating team meetings * Rebuilding a climate of trust * Regaining team member commitment * Reassesing team performance * Rewarding team success * And much more! And, to ensure that you enjoy your shopping experience, the books begins with a stop at the "customer service counter," where you will find the "Lost in Team Depot" directional assessment. This 100-item survey covers all twenty aisles in the warehouse and, once scored, the results will help guide you the aisles that contain solutions designed to get your team back on track. Happy shopping!
"Like so many things in organizational life, keeping a culture ofteamwork going requires constant renewal. Team Depotprovides a conveniently organized resource to enable team leadersand managers to effectively facilitate the renewal process. GlennParker's many years of hands-on experience sustaining teams andteamwork are powerfully captured in its pages."
--Bill Fox, vice president and general manager, TelcordiaTechnologies
"Team Depot is by far the single most comprehensive andvaluable collection I've seen of tools and sound advice ondiagnosing and improving teams drawn from Glenn Parker's extensiveexperience as a hands-on consultant and teams practitioner. Usingthe book's novel organizing principal of a home supply warehousechain, the reader will discover that each and every one of thetwenty aisles contains practical, easily implemented tools forgetting derailed teams back on track."
--Malcolm J. Conway, IBM Learning Services Consulting
"Glenn is a master at providing valuable and practical tools fortoday's teams. Team Depot is a one-stop shopping spree forany team or coach looking for hundreds of strategies, tips,surveys, and exercises to refuel their team."
--Deborah Harrington-Mackin, author, Team Building ToolKit
"I've lent my copy of Team Depot to a brand-newfacilitator and she won't return because she claims it'sindispensable. I'll have to buy another copy. Even though I've beenin the team-building business for three decades, there are still alot of things that I have learned from this book. This is truly abook that appeals to both newcomers and veterans."
--Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi,Inc.; author, Teamwork and Teamplay
--Bill Fox, vice president and general manager, TelcordiaTechnologies
"Team Depot is by far the single most comprehensive andvaluable collection I've seen of tools and sound advice ondiagnosing and improving teams drawn from Glenn Parker's extensiveexperience as a hands-on consultant and teams practitioner. Usingthe book's novel organizing principal of a home supply warehousechain, the reader will discover that each and every one of thetwenty aisles contains practical, easily implemented tools forgetting derailed teams back on track."
--Malcolm J. Conway, IBM Learning Services Consulting
"Glenn is a master at providing valuable and practical tools fortoday's teams. Team Depot is a one-stop shopping spree forany team or coach looking for hundreds of strategies, tips,surveys, and exercises to refuel their team."
--Deborah Harrington-Mackin, author, Team Building ToolKit
"I've lent my copy of Team Depot to a brand-newfacilitator and she won't return because she claims it'sindispensable. I'll have to buy another copy. Even though I've beenin the team-building business for three decades, there are still alot of things that I have learned from this book. This is truly abook that appeals to both newcomers and veterans."
--Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi,Inc.; author, Teamwork and Teamplay