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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818435203321

Autore

Sibbet David

Titolo

Visual teams : graphic tools for commitment, innovation, & high performance / / David Sibbet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, 2011

ISBN

1-118-15859-8

1-119-20265-5

1-282-24256-3

9786613813688

1-118-15857-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

658.4

658.4022

Soggetti

Teams in the workplace

Visual communication

Decision making

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance; Contents; Introduction: Imagining Better Results for Teams; I. What Is a Visual Team?: Using Graphics Across the Whole Workflow; 1. Working Like Designers / Why Visual Teams Get Results; 2. Why Be a Visual Team? / The Case for Collaboration; 3. A Graphic User Interface for Teams / The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model; II. Leading Visual Teams: Seeing the BIG Picture; 4. So You've Just Been Promoted / Understanding Team Leadership; 5. Managing Four Flows of Activity / Attention, Energy, Information, & Operations

6. Supporting Innovation / Providing Visual ToolsIII. Visual Team Startup: Creating Trust, Focus, & Commitment; 7. Visualizing Purpose / Orienting to Your Mission; 8. Seeing Yourself As a Team / Developing Trust; 9. Clarifying Goals / Using the Graphic Gameplan; 10. Consensus or Command? / Deciding Commitments; IV. Sustaining Results: Innovating for High Performance; 11. Graphics & Project Management / Implementation You Can Literally See; 12. Visualizing & Innovating /



Understanding High Performance; 13. Assessments, Dialogues, & Sharing Rallies / The Importance of Learning & Renewal

V. Growing a Visual Team Culture: Thinking BIG About Opportunities14. Introducing Visual Teams / Communicating Benefits; 15. Developing Visual Team Skills / Learning Tips & Tools; 16. Shared Visual Language / Toward an Operating System for Visual Teams; VI. New Technology Tools: A Revolution in Visual Collaboration; 17. Visual Tools Come of Age / Experiencing High Performance at the Institute for the Future; 18. Graphics for Distributed Teams / Web & Teleconferences; 19. Team Rooms & the Net / Physical Places or Virtual Spaces?; 20. Mobile Technology / Reshaping Tomorrow's Teams

VII. Links, Tools, & Other Resources21. Websites & Bibliography; Appendix; Jack R. Gibb's Original Research; Summary of Arthur M.Young's Theory of Process; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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