The Performance Manager
By examining what makes a high performing team, this workbook features practical steps you can take to improve your teams' performance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS The Performance Manager
Series Overview
The Chartered Management Institute Flexible Learning Programme is a series of workbooks prepared by the Chartered Management Institute and Elsevier for managers seeking to develop themselves.
Comprising ten open learning workbooks, the programme covers the best of modern management theory and practice. Each workbook provides a range of frameworks and techniques to improve your effectiveness as a manager, thus helping you acquire the knowledge and skill to make you fully competent in your role.
Each workbook is written by an experienced management writer and covers an important management topic or theme. The activities both reinforce learning and help to relate the generic ideas to your individual work context. While coverage of each topic is fully comprehensive, additional reading suggestions and reference sources are given for those who wish to study to a greater depth.
Designed to be practical, stimulating and challenging, the aim of the workbooks is to improve performance at work by benefiting you and your organization. This practical focus is at the heart of the competence-based approach that has been adopted by the programme.
Introduction
In recent years there has been increasing recognition that successful organizations need good teamworking. The output of an effective team is greater than the sum of the individual performances of team members.
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Team performance > Sum of individual performances
Members of effective teams focus on achieving a common purpose and objectives. They work collectively, which often increases motivation and in turn results in increased performance.
But building a high performance team is often...
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