Building High-Performance Teams

In school and later as business professionals, students will most likely become members of teams -- whether permanent, high-powered, self-managed work teams or special-purpose groups that meet only long enough to tackle a specific problem. No matter what type of team, Building High-Performance Teams is designed to help students build vital skills in maximizing individual contribution, understanding team roles, overcoming conflict, negotiating solutions, evaluating outcomes, and thinking creatively.

This handbook provides five projects to guide the user through the team-building process. Project 1 (Understanding Team Development) introduces the stages of team building, and each of the four subsequent projects focuses on one of the following stages: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. The outcome of this guided process is a productive team experience that yields high-performance results, which can be replicated in team settings in both school and the workplace.