The Team Handbook Third Edition

As a certified business coach, the majority of my business involves "team building" in some fashion, and about half deals directly with improving team or organizational effectiveness. I am constantly on the lookout for new resources and have developed quite a library of slightly useful references. While there are many books and other resources on "team building" and related issues on the market, including some wildly popular best-sellers, few are truly practical and fewer still offer replicable actions that work. "The Team Handbook Third Edition" is a rare exception.Not only do the authors capture extensive best practices, including straightfoward "how to's" in terms that work for the average manager or team member, they have catalogued what I believe to be the best (most comprehensive, useful and easy-to-use) team tool on the market. I still prefer to help my clients organically build their own strategies for improvement, and recommend organizations and their leaders use outside facilitators for reasons I won't go into here. However, I use "The Team Handbook" as my own reference and reminder of best practices, processes and tools. And, so far, I have given it as a gift for a client's Customer Loyalty process improvement team to use. I plan to present it to more clients in the future.If you are looking for a great reference on teams that will help you make a positive difference, donate your copy of "The Five Disfunctions of a Team" to the local library and get a copy of "The Team Handbook" today. [Of course, for the most value, hire a professional coach to go along with the book!]Mark Sturgell, CBC[...]

Another great book I purchased after attending the Navy's Senior Enlisted Academy. For future leaders or managers who need a better understanding of their employees and how to lead teams, groups, and employees better. This book was integral in my leadership development.

In 1995, I got involved in efforts of John Slater, my Managing Director to develop a culture of continuous improvement in one of the biggest coal mine in Indonesia. John brought Keith Sinclair from States with his S-I-P-O-C method to initiate this movement where I had my first encounter with this amazing book. East Borneo was witnessing the Team Handbook application, I thought it was the first one in Indonesia.Then I went to restructure a civil engineering company in Jakarta, and its board of directors was soon jumping into the wagon when the directors received the team charter which was downloaded from the internet.They admitted openly that the board was working in a very different environment, since then.During my last year, as a transport manager for another big copper mine in Papua, again I used all the "tricks" I learned from this book. Alas, my people liked the team approach, and I should be glad leaving the handbook for my beloved friends in Papua, on a mountain about 2000 m above the sea level.Now, I was in charge for bringing about changes/improvements in a small company, in a village next to the Great River of Mahakam, East Borneo. And my first step for doing my tasks was - of course - to order the bible for building teams. I took the methodology in this book as gospel......

Bought it for class, helped a lot with the assignments. There isn’t much that can go wrong here

Content is great. Digitization is terrible. Low quality. Weird formatting. Words are hard to recognize sometimes with a lot of gaps. A real low quality scan job.

The contents are structured well and easy to understand. The embedded illustrative drawings are really vivid and help readers to grasp the meaning in a, kind of, humorous and relaxing manner.Dislike: The DHL envelop didn't protect the book cover very well so that it was folded as well as the inside paper ridge.

Great

Item was shipped quickly and item is in great quality as described. This will be very useful for my university course and going forward as I grow, engage and develop my team

Very useful handbook. Peter R. Scholtes at his best, indeed !It's a real must, not to be missed if you want to succeed in improving your leader strategies.

Already a fan of Peter Scholtes I felt the Team Handbook would be a good addition to my bookshelf and I was not disappointed. Whilst a lot of it is good common sense there was a lot of inspirational stuff in this handbook. It's a good investment if like me you want something you can dip into for confirmation of your own thoughts and for additional inspiration.