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Theory, tools, and techniques to create and maintain high-performing teams

Group Dynamics and Team Interventions delivers essential knowledge on foundational theories for understanding how groups work as well as practical concepts for intervening to improve teams. The book is modeled after the scientist-practitioner paradigm that is part of applied psychology with an emphasis on both action and research. In this second edition, validated assessment tools are available for free in the book resources section on the author's website.

Each chapter starts with a way to learn about how well a team is doing through research, then summarizes relevant theory and provides three ideas for intervention. Through the author's unique approach, this book helps readers understand the basic processes involved in assessing and evaluating teams, finding measurement tools to use for assessment, and equipping themselves with a toolbox of interventions that they might use to help groups and teams perform better.

Sample topics covered in Group Dynamics and Team Interventions include:

Inputs necessary to understand what teams bring to the system prior to working together, such as how the members, system, and team tasks affects teamwork Team outputs, such as performance, productivity, and member satisfaction How to collect data through observation, interviews, focus groups, and surveys Steps to conduct a culture and inclusion assessment and identify artifacts, espoused values, enacted values, and assumptions The goal of synergy and the reality of most teams

Group Dynamics and Team Interventions is an essential learning resource for academics and practitioners who want to understand and then improve the teams with which they work.

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CHOICE Review

Franz (St. John Fisher College) is an applied psychologist, a consultant who works with practitioners. His mission in this book is to integrate theory and practice, given his observation that academics develop theory and ignore practice, while practitioners do the opposite. Chapters deal with standard group-dynamics topics: theory; assessment; culture; environment; communication and trust; creativity and innovation; problem solving and decision making; cohesion; conflict and cooperation; influence, power, and leadership; virtual teams; synergy. What is distinctive is that each chapter presents a depth of knowledge from theory to practice interventions, assessment questionnaires to assist in conducting interventions, additional resources, team development exercises, and case studies describing interventions of simplified steps to improve groups and teams. An appendix describes ways of improving team meetings. Inspired by the notion of action research--advanced by Kurt Lewin, the "founder of social psychology"--Franz takes as his premise that there must be both basic scientific research that is working to understand general laws/principles and applied scientific research designed to solve a particular problem. He covers this territory remarkably well in this book, which stands as a combined textbook and operational manual. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. D. Sydiaha emeritus, University of Saskatchewan

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Timothy M. Franz, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at St. John Fisher College and an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist with extensive experience in both academic leadership and organizational consulting. He has served as Chair of the Psychology Department and as Program Director and Chair of the Organizational Learning and Human Resource Development Department. Through Franz Consulting, he works directly with organizations to assess team dynamics and implement performance-improving interventions, bringing practical expertise that bridges research and real-world application.