Business Librarian
Teamwork / March 2024
The Economist noted that even as workplaces lean on teams more than ever, management practices aren't evolving to match (2023). This topic was the focus of episode four of its podcast on good management, Boss Class.
You can listen to the episode through JMU Libraries' subscription to The Economist, or check out one of these 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine teamwork.
Find more materials about this topic by searching teamwork or collaboration in Library Search.
Smarter Collaboration
Lays out a pragmatic action plan blending rich stories, new empirical research, and loads of practical advice to help companies thrive by collaborating more effectively.
Getting Along: How to work with anyone (even difficult people)
Identifies eight familiar types of difficult coworkers--the insecure boss, the passive-aggressive peer, the know-it-all, the biased coworker, and others--and provides strategies tailored to dealing constructively with each one.
Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team
A toolbox of proven techniques from the field for the whole product team to use together to maximize your team's chances of success when developing products and services, from identifying opportunities, to the point of being able to confidently go into production.
Interpersonal Skills for Group Collaboration
Teaches core collaboration skills such as active listening, interviewing, empathy, and conflict resolution that are necessary to collaborate on group projects in the classroom and the workplace.
When Teams Work: How to Develop and Lead a High-Performing Team
Helps you to identify the most common issues and give you and your team the tools to improve them and achieve better teamwork and performance. get the best out of yourself and others and avoid the common pitfalls that prevent teams from being the best they can be.
Smart Teams: How to Move from Friction to Flow and Work Better Together
Shows you how to turn around the unproductive team behaviours that create friction and you'll learn the 'superproductive' behaviours that promote flow and the most impactful productivity principles for working better together.
Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture with Intentionality
Leverage the classical Greek virtues for sustained success and apply them to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen relationships, and foster success in business.
Learning with Others
Presents a set of core practices to empower students to enter, nourish, and sustain collaborative learning and outlines how to blend the roles and responsibilities of faculty, staff, and students; how to adopt best practices for receiving and giving feedback on problem-solving; and how to anchor a curriculum in shared problem-solving.
The Elephant in the Room
We are in a working group or at a meeting, discussing a topic or a challenge, and all the while, as a separate track running underneath our conversation, there is a subtext that no one explicitly addresses. This is an example of 'the elephant in the room.' This book addresses how we can best deal with the elephant and thus promote job satisfaction, creativity and productivity.
We Culture: 12 skills for growing teams in the future of work
An invitation to co-create a culture of conscious teamwork, where we can bring our whole selves to work, while simultaneously producing more cost-effective products and services to become more customer-oriented.
Team Roles at Work
This fully updated third edition provides the practical application of Team Role theory in everyday work situations. Contains up-to-date practical examples and summaries to reflect contemporary scenarios, and a brand-new chapter on remote team working.
Mastering Microsoft Teams: creating a hub for successful teamwork in Office 365
Covers all the topics required for a full and comprehensive understanding of collaborating within the Microsoft suite of software.