Glenn Parker is a recognized expert in fostering teamwork and collaboration, delving into the dynamics of inter-team relationships and strategies for successful collaboration. With decades of consulting experience, he guides organizations in building high-performing teams. His work emphasizes practical approaches to enhance team synergy and achieve optimal results. Parker's insights focus on the essential elements that drive effective teamwork and collective success.
Glenn Parker's seminal book identifies the typical personality styles present in every team, and provides exercises and assessments to allow the team to work together more smoothly. Updated from the first edition, this book identifies team dynamics and assesses the experiences change teams have over the past 15 years.
Using actual case studies from a variety of leading companies, Rewarding Teams provides a blueprint for building team reward programs that spur development and success. The book focuses on the three most important types of team-based rewards programs--recognition plans, project team incentives, and group incentives--offering readers detailed advice on how they can create and implement such programs themselves. Twenty-seven profiles of team reward and recognition plans from today's top companies give readers an in-depth look at how these plans work in actual practice. They also provide the basis for the set of best principles included in the final chapter.
In this completely revised version of his best-selling book, Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies, and Strangers, author and consultant Glenn Parker updates his definitive practical guide to include his recent work in team rewards and recognition, communications technology, and multicultural and virtual-team issues. This new edition contains fresh examples and additional case studies of successful cross-functional teams from IBM, Parke-Davis, Xerox, Boeing, BOC Gases, government agencies, and more. Parker offers concrete advice and inspiration to team leaders, team members, and senior management. Cross-Functional Teams delivers a team operating manual to executives, team leaders, human resource professionals, and students of organizational behavior and provides a tool kit of assessment surveys, worksheets, checklists, and even sample training programs to help launch and sustain effective teams.