Start-up Guide for Developing Effective Business Teams

Just released - a new team building book by Shirley Fine Lee that provides what leaders and team members need to know to start a team off correctly so they are more effective from the beginning.  The book is available on Amazon #ad and called Team Building Primer: A Start-up Guide for Developing Effective Teams, Committees, and Other Groups. 

Below are the main concepts covered in the Team Building Primer:

• Introduces four basic principles for team
• Shows importance of giving teams a reason existence via definitions of charter, function, mission, and purpose  
• Explains the need to express team’s potential for accomplishments by explaining the differences between group aims, goals, intentions, and objectives
• Examines the roles of team leader, team membership, having a recorder (historian), and team sponsorship
• Presents key elements of team start-up including member selection, establishing procedures (guidelines, ground rules  or code of conduct) , team meetings, and planning for training
• Notes how to get team members involved, assigning actions, keeping records, and role rotation within the team
• Touches on how to decide when it is time to disband a team, hold team celebrations, and evaluate team performance 

Below are the suggested articles for additional reference from the Team Building Primer:

- 8 Considerations for 3 Types of Teams 

- The 5 Stages of Team Development 

- 5 Characteristics of a Great Team 

- The 5 P's of Team Design and Development 

- The 3R's in Forming Teams 

- The 4 C's of Team Goal Setting

For more about the book, see Four Principles from Team Building Primer e-book press release.