Mining Group Gold, Third Edition: How to Cash in on the Collaborative Brain Power of a Team for Innovation and Results

bBuilding and maintaining a strong and effective team/strong.  /bIf two heads are better than one, how about a team of heads? An effective team can be more innovative than an individual. But how do you get there? While it is true that building and managing a strong, productive team is difficult, Mining Group Gold/em/em/em/em/em gives you a set of proven tools, techniques and processes that you must use and practice at all levels of your organization to build and maintain strong, collaborative teams.brbrBased on 30 years of research and applied work with teams and organizational development by the author, this updated classical guide--now in its highly revised 3rd Edition--shows you how to how to plan, start-up, facilitate, and close-out efficient and effective collaborative meetings. Mining Group Gold features: brulliAn incisive analysis of the staggering cost of meetings in terms of time and money/liliThe tightly interlinked relationship between primary and secondary facilitation/liliThe six major considerations for planning group meetings--starting with the decision about whether to have a meeting in the first place/liliBlueprints for designing an effective PDORA (Purpose, Desired Outcomes, Roles and Agenda) that produces a collaborative structure/liliTactics for dealing with (and defusing when necessary) disruption differences, and confusion to make a diversity of viewpoints a valuable team asset/liliWays for channeling participants' emotions into a positive force/liliExpert guidance on using technologies like virtual collaboration as a catalyst for unlocking your teams' collaborative brain power/li/ulBased on practical advice rather than fluff or theory, the Mining Group Gold sytematic approach is the essential guide to building and maintaining strong, collaborative organizational teams.