Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to collaborate to build effective teams to achieve organizational excellence and effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines a blueprint to build an effective team based on various personality types leveraging their competencies and...

Reports on a programme designed to produce an effective, successful, action‐orientated team from a group of long serving individuals representing a variety of departments. Describes the involvement of the managers in creating the programme using work‐related examples in customer care....

Describes the two‐core management development programmes. Featuring internationally known business school faculty and consultants the first core stressed global strategic thinking: achieving world class excellence. Describes the integration of the International Division corporate strategy....

Reports some findings from the Developing the Developers report, in particular the high proportion of developers who differentiate training from development, and their reasons for so doing. Identify from the research the top ten approaches that developers see as important for the future. The...

Looks at instruments which can be used in team development. The Types of Work Index provides personal feedback to team members on their job. The Team Management Index helps team members understand the way they like to work. The Linking Skills Index measures how well a person implements...

Describes the background and events leading up to a typical management team‐building workshop.

A programme of introducing teamworking into the business was undertaken at BICC Cables, a leading cable manufacturer. Teamworking allowed managers to combine their efforts in dealing with business strategy and organizational change, and to implement changes in a spirit of common purpose and...

The Meal and Meal Components Section in Unilever Research was formed at the end of 1990, as a result of the refocusing of the Unilever Foods organization. With the Cambridge Management Centre a series of three‐day team‐building workshops was developed which was conducted off‐site in...

Discusses team‐building initiatives undertaken in an operational sphere which aimed both to enhance the awareness of individuals of their own psychological profile and their impact on others, and to develop them in an organizational milieu by examining their motivational factors in the context...