Creating Effective &
Successful Teams
by
Thomas R. Keen, Ph.D.
This book provides a basic primer on how
to create successful and effective teams. It is appropriate for large,
medium, or small non-profit or for-profit organizations. The practical
tips included in this book detail a wide array of team-oriented helpful
hints. These practical application tools can be utilized to improve teams
if they already exist. If teams do not exist, it provides a step-by-step
process in creating a team-oriented environment, such as how to create
a team culture in the organization and a specific organizational design
that will make teams more effective. It also covers the essentials of
teamwork that are critical to making teams effective. The orientation
of this book offers a new paradigm for selecting and managing teams. It
differs from other books as it describes exactly how to match the right
people for each team. Each team player has two roles to bring to a team—their
functional/professional role based on their expertise (i.e. a financial
background), and a team competency role that is based on their innate
personal strengths. Creating Effective and Successful Teams describes
how to leverage each team member’s functional/professional-based
competencies with a set of personality-based competencies that can translate
into a particular team role they would best play to make teams effective
and successful.
Dr. Thomas R. Keen has over 30 years of experience in
business, research, and academia. His areas of proficiency include strategic
management/planning/development, executive development and coaching, team
assessment and design, management leadership assessment, marketing relevancy,
and consumer behavior. Keen’s wide range of experience offers a
unique skill set that provides a senior management business perspective,
an understanding of human behavior, ability to leverage team/group dynamics,
and a personal coaching approach. He has also published and presented
in the areas of Team Structure/Evaluation and Design, Strategic Management,
Intuitive Decision Making, and Managerial Leadership and Effectiveness.
Currently, Keen is an associate professor and chairman of the business
department at Caldwell College in Caldwell, New Jersey.
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