How to lead work teams

Learn what it takes to empower your teams. How to Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated resource that shows you how to develop the skills that are key for becoming a successful team leader. Step-by-step, author Fran Rees shows you how to develop the powerful facilitation skills that will help make you an outstanding team leader, coach, motivator, and facilitator. This hands-on book is filled with proven tips, tools, and techniques that can be learned today and put into action tomorrow! Using Rees's innovative L.E.A.D. model, you can become a team member who: Leads with a clear purpose: Articulate your team's goals and purpose and encourage open and thoughtful discussion, including brainstorming, active listening and disagreement. Empowers to participate: Encourage team members to communicate in ways that enhance teamwork and achieve results. Aims for consensus: Reach consensus by taking the time for questioning, listening, clarifying, augmenting, summarizing, and documenting. Directs the process: Lead the process of communication both inside and outside your team. - Back cover.