Since the first edition of Team Players and Teamwork was published in 1990, there have been significant and often dramatic changes in the business environment in which teams now operate.
Teams are now cross-functional, cross-cultural, even virtual. Team trust is even more vital. Communications technology is critical. With players often serving on multiple teams, leadership is both more important and challenging.

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking book, Glenn Parker analyzes these trends and shows how his concept of effective teamwork is even more relevant today. The fundamental question remains: What makes a good team player? At the same time he demonstrates all the ways team players can adapt to these new challenges.

Team Players and Teamwork provides specific, practical tools that will help both leaders and members identify their team-player style: Contributor, Collaborator, Communicator, or Challenger. Parker explains how each style contributes to five key leadership functions planning, communication, risk taking, problem solving, and decision making.

With guidelines for personal development and team-building strategies, Team Players and Teamwork shows how effective teamwork ultimately leads to increased productivity, reduced costs, improved quality, innovation, better customer service, and more rapid commercialization of products.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
The Author
1. Team Players and Teamwork: The New Reality
It’s the Twenty-First Century: Team Players and Teamwork Are Here to Stay
2. What Makes a Team Effective or Ineffective
Teamwork: Lessons from the Past
A New Model of Team Effectiveness
The Ineffective team
Trouble Ahead: The Warning Signs
Building Your Team
3. Effective Team Players
The Concept of Personal Style
Team Player Styles
Contributor
Collaborator
Communicator
Challenger
Team Player Actions
4. Ineffective Team Players
The Cost of Ineffective Team Players
The Ineffective Contributor
The Ineffective Collaborator
The Ineffective Communicator
The Ineffective Challenger
Dealing with the Ineffective Team Player When It Is You
Dealing with the Ineffective Team Player When It Is Someone Else
5. Team Players as Team Leaders
The Contributor as Leader
The Contributor Leader: The Downside
The Collaborator as Leader
The Collaborator Leader: The Downside
The Communicator as Leader
The Communicator Leader: the Downside
The Challenger as Leader
The Challenger Leader: The Downside
Personal-Development Planning for Team Leaders
Successful Team-Building Strategies for Team Leaders
6. Adaptive Team Players
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
How Team Players Adapt to Team Development
7. Analyzing Your Team’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Stages and Styles: The Right Mix at the Right Time
The Goal: Style Diversity
Style Overload
Missing Perspectives
How to Analyze Your Team
8. Developing a Team Player Culture
Current Methods
Recommended Strategies
R, for the Development of a Team Player Culture
9. Challenges for Teams and Team Players
The Executive Challenge
The Management Challenge
The Human Resources Challenge
The Learning and Development Challenge
The Personal Challenge
Resources: Tools for Developing Teams and Team Players
A. Parker Team-Development Survey
B. Parker Team-Development Survey: Summary and Action Planning Guide
C. Parker Team Player Survey
D. Team Player Styles
E. Parker Team Player Survey: Normative Data report
References
Index