Team Planning for Project Managers and Business Analysts

ISBN-13: 9780367380908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 225 str.

Gail Levitt

Opis

Filled with time-tested tips and templates for developing teams efficiently and effectively, this book provides the planning materials required to increase team collaboration and productivity in a global workplace. It offers insights and access to critical resources for creating, proposing, executing, and evaluating team development plans. Dr. Levitt's insights will help readers transform their visions, mission statements, goals, and deliverables into actionable plans for their teams. In addition to templates and guidelines, the book offers a variety of practical team development guidelines to ensure team activities are both engaging and productive.

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Spis treści

Team Productivity and the Bottom Line. Evaluating Your Team. Creating a Team Development Plan using the STAR Method. Selling the Team Development Plan. Getting Buy-In and Commitment From Multi-Generational Team Members. Team Development Activities for Each Stage. The Importance of Team Succession Planning. Leading Team Transformation. The Future of Team Development Planning.

O autorze

Gail Levitt, Ph.D., is a knowledgeable leadership strategist, facilitator, and coach dedicated to developing global leaders and their teams to perform more efficiently and effectively. She provides a unique perspective as a former marketing administrator, business development strategist, product manager, project team leader, and corporate consultant.

Levitt is president of Levitt Communications Inc., a corporate service organization offering courseware, templates and tools, training, and consulting in leadership communications, especially related to team problem solving, conflict management, collaboration, and influence. Previously, she worked for twenty years for leading organizations in publishing, packaged goods, computers, education, and government, resulting in extensive expertise in leadership and team development pitfalls and best practices. She has spoken extensively at conferences on project management, business analysis, customer service, and team development and has written articles on team leadership issues for professional publications. The recipient of numerous awards for poetry, she has also presented academic papers at the International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College for three consecutive years.

Gail Levitt holds a doctorate in cultural studies from the University of Exeter in England. She also earned a master’s degree with high honors in English from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champagne, and a bachelor’s degree in English from Hobart-William Smith College in Geneva, New York, graduating summa cum laude.