Visual Teams

Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and development Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams—both face-to-face and virtual—reach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication—one that opens up the group's mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts.Visual Teams shares best practices and uses visualization as a power tool for process improvement by providing teams with a common language for high performance. The book: Explores how any kind of team can draw on the principles and practices of creative design teams in the software, architectural, engineering, and information design professionsIntroduces the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance™ Model and related tools—a system used throughout companies such as Nike, Genentech, Becton Dickinson, Chevron, and othersVisual Teams presents a comprehensive framework, best practices, and unique visual tools for becoming an innovative, high-performance team.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-18
Mått:252 x 175 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781118077436

Mer om författaren

DAVID SIBBET is a world leader in the area of graphic facilitation and visual thinking for groups. He is the founder and president of The Grove Consultants International, a company whose leading-edge group-process tools and services for panoramic visualization, graphic facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation are used by consultants and organizations around the world. Sibbet has been the visual cartographer for the TED conference, and is the recipient of the OD Network Members Award for Creative Contribution to the field of organizational development.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction xiImagining Better Results for TeamsI. What is a Visual Team? 1Using Graphics Across the Whole Workflow1. Working Like Designers 3Why Visual Teams Get Results2. Why Be a Visual Team? 15The Case for Collaboration3. A Graphic User Interface for Teams 29The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance ModelII. Leading Visual Teams 55Seeing the BIG Picture4. So You’ve Just Been Promoted 57Understanding Team Leadership5. Managing Four Flows of Activity 73Attention, Energy, Information, & Operations6. Supporting Innovation 83Providing Visual ToolsIII. Visual Team Startup 93Creating Trust, Focus, & Commitment7. Visualizing Purpose 95Orienting to Your Mission8. Seeing Yourself As a Team 107Developing Trust9. Clarifying Goals 117Using the Graphic Gameplan10. Consensus or Command? 131Deciding CommitmentsIV. Sustaining Results 149Innovating for High Performance11. Graphics & Project Management 151Implementation You Can Literally See12. Visualizing & Innovating 159Understanding High Performance13. Assessments, Dialogues, & Sharing Rallies 171The Importance of Learning & RenewalV. Growing a Visual Team Culture 183Thinking BIG About Opportunities14. Introducing Visual Teams 185Communicating Benefits15. Developing Visual Team Skills 193Learning Tips & Tools16. Shared Visual Language 201Toward an Operating System for Visual TeamsVI. New Technology Tools 219A Revolution in Visual Collaboration17. Visual Tools Come of Age 221Experiencing High Performance at the Institute for the Future18. Graphics for Distributed Teams 231Web & Teleconferences19. Team Rooms & the Net 241Physical Places or Virtual Spaces?20. Mobile Technology 249Reshaping Tomorrow’s TeamsVII. Links, Tools, & Other Resources 26321. Websites & Bibliography 265Appendix 273Jack R. Gibb’s Original Research 273Summary of Arthur M. Young’s Theory of Process 274Index 277