Team Troubleshooter: How to Find and Fix Team Problems

This is a fantastic book for Team Leaders. I was hired to create a functioning team from a group of mis-fits. This book helped make this process happen. Fantastic book if you want to get more out of your employees or team members. We used the MBTI from a company called KnowYourtype as talked about in the book. Great tool.

In this age of team oriented approach to products and customers, managing this approach is often easier said than done. Roadblocks can easily arise that can derail a team bound for success. In this book, the author presents some of the more common pitfalls for teams, including poor relations between teams and the customer, and the inability of teams to anticipate problems. Robert W. Barnum presents both symptoms and treatments for problems that generally arise in these four key areas: · Improving internal relationships by keeping minor conflicts between team members from escalating to major problems. · Strengthen team focus by establishing and maintaining a clear sense of direction, minimizing change anxiety, and establishing and maintaining focused priorities. · Dealing with the challenges of change by proper use of coordination and innovation. Team must be able to anticipate challenges, especially those that threaten the team directly. Some of these challenges can be viewed as opportunities for growth. The distinctions are important. · Mending external relationships. Teams need to know who are their customers, as the customers are the team's reason for being. Of these four key areas, the author focuses on the team's ability to anticipate changes by submitting eight steps to successfully creating a scenario forecast. These steps are: · Identify influencing factors · Rate influencing factors · Identify key influencing factors · Create alternative scenarios · Combine scenarios · Describe each combined scenario · Assess probability · Assess the implications.

Robert W. Barner has produced a remarkable resource. Lucid, organized, utterly practical and results-oriented, this cookbook for team builders and members belongs on every organization's bookshelf. Barner has condensed everything he has learned from two decades of consulting and team-building experience into a five-step process for improving team relationships and performance. He identifies the most common pitfalls for teams, and provides a kit of 51 tools designed for specific team-building or team-repair tasks. Neither abstract nor psychological in nature, this practical workbook describes proven techniques and strategies for quickly and effectively addressing a wide range of problems that frequently occur among teams. Bottom line: we from getAbstract consider this an essential resource for managers, team leaders and team members.

I am currently conducting team building activities for different organizations and Robert Barner's framework has given me a clear idea on how to diagnose team problems---and define interventions. Complemented with other management books, this book---but then, this is more than a book---this is a tool kit--- provides enough tools yet whets your appetite to crave for more learnings. Again, this book (and toolkit), will be a valuable addition to anyone whose passion for teams is unquenchable. Every manager serious towards improving himself and his team can use this toolkit from strategy formulation to program evaluation. Encompassing every team problem, I won't be surprised if this will soon become industry standard! This will practically change the way your organization address team problems. It provides long-term solutions to long-standing team problems.