The power of a positive team Proven principles and practices that make great teams great
Book - 2018
Jon Gordon doesn't just research the keys to great teams, he has personally worked with some of the most successful teams on the planet and has a keen understanding of how and why they became great. In The Power of a Positive Team, Jon draws upon his unique team building experience as well as conversations with some of the greatest teams in history in order to provide an essential framework, filled with proven practices, to empower teams to work together more effectively and achieve superior results.Utilizing examples from the writing team who created the hit show Billions, the National Champion Clemson Football team, the World Series contending Los Angeles Dodgers, The Miami Heat and the greatest beach volleyball team of all time to N...avy SEALs, Marching bands, Southwest Airlines, USC and UVA Tennis, Twitter, Apple and Ford, Jon shares innovative strategies to transform a group of individuals into a united, positive and powerful team.Jon not only infuses this book with the latest research, compelling stories, and strategies to maintain optimism through adversity he also shares his best practices to transform negativity, build trust (through his favorite team building exercises) and practical ways to have difficult conversations designed to make a team more positive, cohesive, stronger and better.The Power of a Positive Team also provides a blueprint for addressing common pitfalls that cause teams to fail including complaining, selfishness, inconsistency, complacency, unaccountabilitywhile offering solutions to enhance a teams creativity, grit, innovation and growth.This is a book meant for teams to read together. Its written in such a way that if you and your team read it together, you will understand the obstacles you will face and what you must do to become a great team. If you read it together, stay positive together, and take action together you will accomplish amazing things TOGETHER.
- Subjects
- Published
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- x, 159 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781119430247
- No One Creates Success Alone
- 1. The Power of Positive
- 2. Positive Teams Create Positive Cultures
- Create Your Culture
- Culture Is Dynamic, Not Static
- Make Your Bus Great
- Make Your Culture a Priority
- Invest in the Root
- Decide to Be Vitamin C
- The Power is on the Inside
- What Do We Want to Be?
- 3. Positive Teams Work Together toward a Shared Vision with a Greater Purpose
- Shared Vision
- Greater Purpose
- Purpose-Driven Goals
- Vision + Mission
- Telescope and Microscope
- Creating Billions and Winning Gold
- The World's Largest Family
- The Table
- Keep Your Vision and Purpose Alive
- Make Your Vision and Purpose Come Alive
- One Word
- Make Sure Everyone Is on the Bus
- Everyone Means Everyone
- 4. Positive Teams Work Together with Optimism, Positivity, and Belief
- Stay Positive Together
- Believe Together
- Encourage Each Other
- Feed the Positive Dog
- Talk to Yourself
- Replace Have To with Get To
- Make the Next Opportunity Great
- L.O.S.S.
- Shark or Goldfish
- Think Like Rookies
- Defeat Murphy
- Inside Out
- Distort Reality
- Fear or Faith
- The Positivity Experiment
- Don't Stop Believing
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- 5. Positive Teams Transform and Remove Negativity
- No Energy Vampires Allowed
- It Starts at the Culture Level
- The First Step Is Transformation
- Remove the Negativity
- It's Not Okay to Be Moody
- Implement the No Complaining Rule
- Weed and Feed
- Positive Conflict
- 6. Positive Teams Communicate and Connect
- Connection Is the Difference between Good and Great
- It Starts with Communication
- Where There Is a Void, Negativity Will Fill It
- Fill the Void
- One-on-One Communication
- Why Don't We Communicate?
- On a Scale of 1 to 10
- Listening Enhances Communication
- Communicate to Connect
- Team Beats Talent When Talent Isn't a Team
- Team + Talent
- Team Building
- It's Worth it
- Team Grit
- 7. Positive Teams Commit and Care
- Play Your Notes
- Team First
- We before Me
- Commitment Recognizes Commitment
- Committing Makes Everyone Better
- Serve to Be Great
- Commit to Your Team
- Do You Care?
- Care More
- Craftsmen and Craftswomen
- You Can't Fake It
- 8. Positive Teams Are Always Striving to Get Better
- The One Percent Rule
- Own the Boat
- Elite of the Elite
- Love and Accountability
- Family and Team
- Love Tough
- Positive Discontent
- Tell-the-Truth Mondays
- Have the Difficult Conversations
- Like versus Love
- Forged in the Fire
- 9. We Are Better Together
- Meraki
- Are You a Real Team?
- 11 Thoughts about Teamwork
- References
- Let us help you build a Positive, United, and Connected Team
- Power of a Positive Team Resources
- Positive U
- Other Books by Jon Gordon