Ace McCloud - Team Building: Discover How To Easily Build & Manage Winning Teams

Team Building

Discover How To Easily Build & Manage Winning Teams

By Ace McCloud

Copyright 2014

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I want to thank you and congratulate you for buying the book, Team Building: Discover How To Build and Manage Winning Teams.

Teamwork is the building block of strong people, groups and nations. Whether you have played on a sports team, worked with a partner in school, or worked with colleagues on a big project at work, you have probably experienced working as a team at some point in your life. Teams are a great way to reach a desirable end-result in a fast, productive and often fun way. However, working as a team can often go one of two wayseither your team works well together and moves quickly toward success or your team is dysfunctional with less than ideal results.

Have you ever been on a losing team? How did it make you feel? Maybe your coach didn't pay attention to the strengths and weaknesses of the players on your team and didn't play them strategically. Maybe your partner in school was not interested in focusing on schoolwork and you didn't have the guts to speak up and take the reins. Maybe some of your colleagues felt disconnected to a project or desired end result. There are many reasons why some teams lose. It is commonly due to the fact that those teams have poor leaders.

When you are on a team that is poorly led, it can be difficult to perform at your best, especially if morale is low. You may feel disconnected from the purpose of the team. You may find it hard to trust and respect your other team members or leader. You may find that you're not even sure what your team leader wants of you. Without a solid sense of leadership, a team is much more likely to fail and no one likes to be on a losing team. On the other hand, a winning team is usually backed by a strong, solid leader who is ready to take action. A winning team has a vision, a purpose, a meaning and an established sense of trust, respect and clarity. Most winning teams are enjoyable and fun to be on.

If you have ever been a part of a not-so-great team and you are now faced with the task of leading a team of your own, look no further. This book will give you some of the best advice in the world on how to build and lead a team to victory. Don't put yourself or your teammates through the agony of defeat and disappointment. Instead, discover the secrets to team building, team development and team leadership so that you can lead your team to victory. Being a team leader is not just about leading your team from Point A to Point Bit's about inspiring and motivating a group of people to perform at their best. It's about taking control of a situation and laying out a systematic plan of action that will lead the group towards the desired goal. It's about helping others become confident so that they can excel in their place on the team.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to develop your current leadership skills into team building leadership skills. In this book you will discover the differences between being a leader and leading a team. You will also learn about the 6 core values of a true team leader and how you can apply them to your team for optimum results. You will also discover how to establish a culture of excellence in which everyone will want to be a part of your group and have others begging to get in. Finally, you will uncover the secrets of how to set goals as a team as opposed to setting goals in general and then you will learn the best strategies for putting everything together so that you become a great and memorable team builder and leader.

A t one point in your life, you may have heard somebody joke, There is no 'I' in team...but there's a 'me'! This common saying is intended to be funny and sarcastic but it may actually have another, more insightful meaning. While it is true that a team consists of a group of people working together, the question is, Who is leading those people? That is where you are or will be one dayyou will find yourself faced with the task of being the team leader. When its your time to shine, you will be responsible for leading a team to success while fostering important values and ideas while managing conflicts. As a team leader, you will be everyone's go-to person, mentor, mediator and any other role that may come up. When you're in that position, it is up to you to build your team and lead it to success.

To be a great team leader, you must first have the ability to be a standalone leader. Leaders are the people who drive themselves, their organizations, and their teams to success by using several great leadership strategies to their advantage. Leaders know how to interview and recruit quality people onto their team. Leaders also know when they have to act fast. They know when they have to solve a conflict. They know that they have to plan, negotiate, practice good ethics, and inspire. Great leaders know that one of the keys to being successful is to take care of their own health and personal development to stay strong and influencing. Leaders are responsible for getting things done while working with a handful of key people. They know how to divide up tasks among team members in order to get the job done in the quickest and most efficient ways possible. They also know that they must practice good ethics, as they are responsible for everybody on the team. Nothing will bring a team down quicker than a corrupt and untrustworthy leader. Most importantly, the key job of a leader is to empower his or her team and to push them to the best of their abilities.

There is much debate as to whether leaders are born or made. While there is no direct answer, logic says that anybody can become a leader. The difference is in one's actions and behaviors. For example, anybody can be given the title manager, but to be a successful manager, you must tap into the leader within. What matters most is that without leaders, teams would not likely get very far. Without a leader, teams might not even exist.

When you're a leader, you can help develop others into great team players, as your leadership skills will help you be a great team player yourself. Team leaders are responsible for several things when it comes to managing a team. There are 5 stages of team development, known as the forming, storming, norming, performing, and disbanding stages. Each stage is an indicator of progress for a given team. During each stage, it is up to the leader to take action, which will bring the group through these 5 stages.