Publisher's Synopsis
Steve Jobs understood the power of High-Performance Teams. How do you think we got the iPhone? So do organisations like Kraft Foods, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Newcrest Mining, Exelon, and the US and British governments who are increasingly turning their attention to them. This book uses the Rapid approach to team building. Rapid is a fast track version of the highly successful 'High-Performance Management and Teams' (Futcher Principle(TM)) Leadership model. This model builds High-Performance Teams for corporate use that are robust and commercially orientated. Rapid results are vastly different to those obtained from training industry courses which tend to only marginally improve a team's performance.The Rapid approach is fundamentally different, it transitions teams to new levels of management capability and performance. Rapid has a track record of success and is the fastest way to guaranteed results.There are many books on building High-Performance Teams, most are academic, others only describe team characteristics and outcomes, but nearly all fail to tell you exactly how to go about building a team. This book is different; it details a step by step approach, using workshop delivery with supporting handouts.You may be considering this book because you are experiencing reduced revenues, loss of profits, poor customer service or just a poorly performing team. Maybe you are not happy with your project delivery, or your customers are complaining about service delivery. Your manager perhaps is dissatisfied with your teams' productivity or your staff are demoralised, job satisfaction is low, and staff turnover is high. You can either keep managing the way you are or look for a new approach that helps alleviate issues like these. In a market in which change is speeding up, the incentive for business to review its approach to management has never been greater.
