Game of Teams: Discover How to Become a Collaborative Leader - Winsor Jenkins - Bog

Written as a business allegory, Game of Teams: Discover How to Become a Collaborative Leader, is a story about team collaboration and the importance of coaching to become a collaborative leader. Author, Winsor Jenkins, introduces an innovative, yet practical methodology to support the development of team leaders seeking to become collaborative leaders who must develop teams to effectively collaborated and produce positive results. In a world demanding management innovation to solve complex challenges, the significance of collaboration cannot be underestimated. Defined as a marked departure from customary organizational forms that alters the ways in which the work of management Is performed, it's described herein as an operating framework. Embedded in this framework are several team principles and essential competencies to support leader and team development. Here, the book leverages the team platform introduced in my first book, The Collaborator, where our global business world is compared to the game of soccer, an environment where people must effectively collaborate to succeed. The principles come from the game of soccer and mirror a successful soccer team's behavior on the field. Competencies are aligned with these principles; applied they describe a collaborative skill set. As the story unfolds, we follow the learning and development journey of a newly promoted team manager, Jim Hernandez. He is confronted with the need to develop a nonperforming team. And he must develop a collaborative mind-set and skill set - all in real time to effectively lead his team to collaborate and succeed. With the help of an external coach, Toni Burns, he embarks on a journey that challenges his commitment and confidence to become a collaborative leader. As a trained coach, she helps him progress along his developmental pathway, providing team principles, essential competencies, best practices, along with established and trusted models. Combined, these provide a framework for her to coach Jim, build his commitment and competence, and develop a collaborative mind-set and skill set to crack the collaboration code and succeed. Part business allegory and part handbook, this resource reveals why team leaders (and teams) often fail to effectively collaborate. Winsor offers a powerful methodology for overcoming this shortfall to enable team leaders and their teams to succeed.