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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020201003321

Autore

Pellerin Charles J (Charles James), <1944->

Titolo

How NASA builds teams : mission critical soft skills for scientists, engineers, and project teams / / Charles J. Pellerin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2009

ISBN

9786612188510

9781119198277

1119198275

9781282188518

1282188518

9780470502938

0470502932

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Classificazione

85.05

Disciplina

658.4022

Soggetti

Teams in the workplace

Soft skills

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

HOW NASA BUILDS TEAMS: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Vision-Moving Your Team's Performance into the Top 20 Percent; How This All Began; NASA's Bottom-Quintile Teams Improve; Teambuilding for Technical Teams; A Broader Perspective on Teambuilding; An Application Summary for this Introduction; Part I: UNDERSTANDING AND ANALYZING CONTEXT; Chapter 1: Think You Can Ignore Context? Hubble's Flawed Mirror Might Wake You Up; Chapter 2: Managing Social Context Manages Technical Performance

Chapter 3: The 4-D SystemPart II: USING 4-D ASSESSMENTS AND REPRESENTATIVE RESULTS FROM NASA; Chapter 4: The 4-D Assessment Process; Chapter 5: NASA's 4-D Teambuilding Results; Part III: 4-D DIAGNOSTICS; Chapter 6: Using the 4-D System to Color Your Personalities; Chapter 7: Using the 4-D System to Analyze Cultures; Chapter 8: Incoherent Project Mindset Colors? Update Your Resume; Part IV: SHIFTING THE CONTEXT; Chapter 9: The Context Shifting



Worksheet (CSW); Chapter 10: Red Story-Lines Limit Team Performance; Chapter 11: Manage Your Emotions to Manage Your Team's Energy

Chapter 12: People Need to Feel Appreciated by YouChapter 13: Mine the Gold in Your Shared Interests; Chapter 14: People Need to Feel Included by You; Chapter 15: Building Trustworthy Contexts; Chapter 16: Creating the Future You Want; Chapter 17: Your Team Can't Afford Drama; Chapter 18: Don't Put Good People in Bad Places; Epilogue: Hubble's Legacy; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Every successful organization needs high-performance teams to compete and succeed. Yet, technical people are often resistant to traditional ""touchy-feely"" teambuilding. To improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in ""How NASA Builds Teams""-an approach that is proven, quantitative, and requires only a fraction of the time and resources of traditional training methods. This ""4-D"" process has boosted team performance in hundreds of NASA project teams, engineerin