Rose Bryant-Smith - Fix Your Team: The Tools You Need to Rebuild Relationships, Address Conflict and Stop Destructive Behaviours

This readable book includes astute analysis and practical tools developed by leading specialists with much experience of fixing teams. It is welcome and timely, especially as there are so many work teams that are dysfunctional. Fixing them would benefit all concerned.

Professor Greg J. Bamber, Monash Business School, Monash University

In todays busy workplace, the need to work productively and harmoniously with others is critical, but not always the reality. Fix Your Team explores the common dysfunctions that can derail your teams effectiveness, and provides practical solutions to move your team dynamic from dysfunctional to functional. Make some time to Fix Your Team.

Dermot Crowley, author of Smart Work and Smart Teams and founder of Adapt Productivity

Fix Your Team is a very well organized, step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to improve their workplace and team dynamics, regardless of the size of their organization. From toxic personalities and reluctant or abrasive managers, to downsizing and overtime, the authors tackle every imaginable issue and break them down into manageable bites of what to do. Rose Bryant-Smith and Grevis Beard pack decades of experience into this very practical guidebook.

Bill Eddy, training director, High Conflict Institute, and author of 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths and Other High-Conflict Personalities

A wonderfully practical and informative tool for leaders, with helpful examples and case studies that will really guide you through the difficult scenarios we see on a daily basis, not just the theory!

Rebecca Fraser, Head of Human Resources, Energy, EnergyAustralia

Finally! A book that addresses the most commonplace issues impacting team dynamics and effectiveness and delivered with logic and humour. Rose and Grevis are to be congratulated on clearly identifying both the problems AND the solutions.

Cath Gillard, Executive Director, People & Culture, Australian Red Cross Blood Service

In todays competitive environment, organisations need to bring out the best in everyone. Fix Your Team is a definitive guide for all those on the front line managers, human resources, risk, legal and other internal advisors to get employees working with, and not against, each other. With actionable guidance on building buy-in, executing the strategy and staying the course in tough times, Fix Your Team is an essential read.

Christina Gillies, independent company director and Chair of the Victorian Council of the International Womens Forum

There is a lot of preaching about the value of teams at work but its not always backed up with practice. Heres a book that locates the most common problems and helps you and your team fix them. A clearly written handbook that will help you and your colleagues realise their true potential.

Rob Goffee, Emeritus Professor, Organisational Behaviour, London Business School

Fix Your Team offers a comprehensive guide to the problems faced by those managing a team. The authors experience and expertise are apparent in the detailed analysis of underlying problems and practical advice to resolve them. Every manager will find value in these pages.

Nick Grant, Director of Human Resources, Australia, K&L Gates

This book will be a critical read for all managers and professionals looking to build a thriving team. Its easy to find a book to tell you how to build a great team, but there are not many that so effectively and pragmatically help you to eliminate the dysfunction and barriers that will prevent you from even starting to thrive! Read it all, or dip into it when you see dysfunction either way, you will find real and practical help.

Aaron Lamers, Human Resources Director Northern Europe, General Mills

Managing your team has just become a whole lot easier with this book. Fix Your Team is a compelling guide to realising your teams full potential. The authors advance specific team goals and offer a myriad of suggestions, including fun team activities, on how to achieve this. This book is a must-have reference for all team managers.

Isabel Metz, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Melbourne Business School

A must read for anyone despairing of the dysfunctional team they have joined, inherited or hired. Fix Your Team is the practical guide for leaders, managers and employees that provides realistic solutions to seemingly impossible team dysfunctionality. The Fix Your Team Toolkit will help you shift the dysfunction and build team morale, values and good behaviours.

Kimberley Poynton, Head of Human Resources, Ivanhoe Grammar School

When teams work well, they work very very well, and when they dont, they are horrid. If you ever need help with improving your teams dynamics, then this book is the one for you. It is the one stop shop for unearthing whats going wrong, identifying the ways forward, and implementing the necessary solutions.

Chris Roussos, Executive Director, People & Corporate Support, St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne

Fix Your Team is the tool that many team leaders have been wanting. For many years, I have written and spoken about organisational culture. Every team, no matter how big or small, has a culture. The team leader is pivotal in setting in that culture. Where can a team leader start in assessing and improving the teams culture? Reading Fix Your Team is the ideal starting point.

Neville Tiffen, specialist consultant in business integrity, corporate governance and compliance, member OECD Secretary-Generals high level advisory group on integrity and anti-corruption

Teams outperform individuals when they work well together! Fix Your Team identifies common team dysfunctions then offers 14 insightful, tailored and specific tools to overcome them. Anyone on any team would be well served by accessing these insights.

Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

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Disclaimer

Although based on aspects of actual complaints, conflicts and team dysfunction we have resolved in our professional work, no character, situation or organisation described in this book represents any real person, situation or organisation. The contents of this book are provided as general information only. We recommend seeking advice from a qualified lawyer before acting on any matter with legal implications.