Background
Parker, Glenn Michael was born on May 18, 1938 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Melville and Lillian (Green) Parker.
(Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guid...)
Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials. Implement successful self-managed teams in your organization. This collection of proven training exercises has been tested and refined in actual team training sessions, and covers all aspects of team development, including mutual goal setting, managing team stagnation, and developing team norms. The activities encourage active participation and feedback from participants and come complete with all the necessary questionnaires, exercises, and handouts. Activities cover Building trust Group problem solving Assessing team effectiveness Improving team meetings Intergroup team building Resolving conflict Training Objectives Determine if empowerment fits into an organization’s current culture Assess a team’s readiness for self-direction Motivate a team and set it into action Prepare a team to receive delegated authority
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(A quick, clear way to learn about teamwork, with a useful...)
A quick, clear way to learn about teamwork, with a useful framework for identifying critical roles of team players. --Peter Block This handbook will help you focus on what makes a good team player. It draws on stories of more than fifty team-driven organizations?including Xerox, Honeywell, General Motors, and 3M?to give you proven evidence of the qualities of high performing teams. You'll discover: • Four styles of team players critical to an effective, dynamic team • The right balance of styles to create a productive team • How to get team members to support, challenge, and inspire one another to achieve stellar results • A useful framework for identifying team roles Here's a practical guide for your team leaders and members who need to maintain their competitive advantage through teamwork.
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(In this completely revised version of his best-selling bo...)
In this completely revised version of his best-selling book, Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Strangers, author and consultant Glenn Parker updates his definitive practical guide to include his recent work in team rewards and recognition, communications technology, and multicultural and virtual-team issues. This new edition contains fresh examples and additional case studies of successful cross-functional teams from IBM, Parke-Davis, Xerox, Boeing, BOC Gases, government agencies, and more. Parker offers concrete advice and inspiration to team leaders, team members, and senior management. Cross-Functional Teams delivers a team operating manual to executives, team leaders, human resource professionals, and students of organizational behavior and provides a tool kit of assessment surveys, worksheets, checklists, and even sample training programs to help launch and sustain effective teams.
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(Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results...)
Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results! Implement successful cross-functional teams in your organization. This useful tool kit and book are packed with examples and ideas for effective team building. The book helps you to successfully develop your own cross-functional teams by using advice from more than 100 companies, including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and many others. You'll learn how to set goals for shared commitments and how to overcome barriers and obstacles to teamwork. You'll learn how to: • Develop a plan to implement cross-functional teams • Facilitate the launch of a set of new teams • Design a training program for team members and leaders • Conduct training and team building for new and ongoing teams • Work with the senior management team to gain their support for cross-functional teams . . . and much more! The tool kit gives you: • Six invigorating icebreakers • Five experiential team-building activities • Five insightful assessment tools • Five useful abstracts and reports • Six detailed case studies . . . and more! The looseleaf binder format facilitates quick preparation. Photocopy what you need, and you're ready! With Parker's help, you'll create collaboration in diverse groups and discover the cross-functional team advantage.
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(Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results...)
Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results! Implement successful cross-functional teams in your organization. This useful tool kit and book are packed with examples and ideas for effective team building. The book helps you to successfully develop your own cross-functional teams by using advice from more than 100 companies, including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and many others. You'll learn how to set goals for shared commitments and how to overcome barriers and obstacles to teamwork. You'll learn how to: • Develop a plan to implement cross-functional teams • Facilitate the launch of a set of new teams • Design a training program for team members and leaders • Conduct training and team building for new and ongoing teams • Work with the senior management team to gain their support for cross-functional teams . . . and much more! The tool kit gives you: • Six invigorating icebreakers • Five experiential team-building activities • Five insightful assessment tools • Five useful abstracts and reports • Six detailed case studies . . . and more! The looseleaf binder format facilitates quick preparation. Photocopy what you need, and you're ready! With Parker's help, you'll create collaboration in diverse groups and discover the cross-functional team advantage.
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(A practical collection of 50 "activities" focusing on tea...)
A practical collection of 50 "activities" focusing on team building and team training, providing facilitators, trainers, managers and meeting planners with a variety of tools to increase team effectiveness.
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(Create high performance teams with these collections of f...)
Create high performance teams with these collections of fully reproducible activities. All the activities employ the principle of "learning by doing" to ensure that the skills the participants learn can be applied to real work situations. Volume 1 contains creative training activities which focus on the building blocks for teams such as communication, leadership, conflict resolution, and decision making. These activities are ideal for team leaders who are looking for creative activities to energize their teams but do not have the time to develop them. All of the activities are ready-to-use and are fully reproducible; with little effort you can implement them into an existing training program. Each volume comes with detailed trainer's notes, clearly stated objectives, and a quick reference index to the activities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Training Objectives, Volume 1 Improve inter-team communication Assess the effectiveness of a team Establish team missions and goals
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Parker, Glenn Michael was born on May 18, 1938 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Melville and Lillian (Green) Parker.
Bachelor in Economics, City College of New York, New York City, 1959; Master of Arts in Industrial Rels., University of Illinois, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy candidate, Cornell Univercity, 1961-1962.
Assistant director research and education, International Chemical Workers Union, Akron, Ohio., 1962-1966;
executive director, Cmty. Action Training Institute, Trenton, New Jersey, 1966-1971;
president, Glenn M. Parker Associations, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, since 1971. Presenter national conferences.
Conductor training workshops in team effectiveness many organizations including Merck & Company, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoffmann-La Roche, Ciba-Geigy, 3M, Asea Brown Bovari, The Budd Company, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Nynex, Bell Comm. Research, Sun MicroSys., Allied-Signal, Lego, Environmental Protection Agency, United States Military Academy.
(In this completely revised version of his best-selling bo...)
(A practical collection of 50 "activities" focusing on tea...)
(Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results...)
(Create high-performing teams that achieve amazing results...)
(A quick, clear way to learn about teamwork, with a useful...)
(Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guid...)
(Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guid...)
(Create high performance teams with these collections of f...)
(Team players and teamwork, competitive business strategy.)
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Member American Society for Training and Development (president Mid-New Jersey chapter 1987-1989, publications committee).
Married Judith Stiller, January 28, 1962. Children: Ellen Jo, Jill Amy, Michael Paul.