Product Description
by Anna B. Kayes Edd (Author), D. Christopher Kayes Phd (Author)
This easy to follow workbook helps participants assess and improve team leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities. Developed by experts on leadership and team performance, Drs. Anna and Chris Kayes, the booklet utilizes a unique approach to team leadership based on continuous learning. Leadership plays a critical role in team performance. Leadership creates the overall tone of the team, motivates members and sets general direction. The most important part of leadership, however, involves helping team members learn to be more effective contributors to the team. This questionnaire will help you: 1) assess your knowledge, skills and abilities as a team leader and 2) continue to improve your team's effectiveness. The Team Leadership Questionnaire (TLQ) helps team leaders assess their own beliefs and behaviors in teams. This booklet also provides a comprehensive study guide to improving team leadership skills and producing more effective teams. The TLQ provides a comprehensive view of team leadership based on years of research and consulting with hundreds of teams. The TLQ will help you as a team leader by: -Increasing your understanding of how teams work -Coordinating the various components that, when taken together, constitute team effectiveness -Developing skills that improve your ability to lead a team -Improving skills of your team members The TLQ focuses on how leaders act and perceive their actions in a team environment. Knowing more about your perceived strengths and weaknesses will improve your ability to lead a team in: - Solving problems - Learning from errors and mistakes - Setting goals - Building trust among members - Drawing on the strengths of individual team members - Coordinating knowledge and actions between team members By completing this booklet, you will identify and evaluate yourself on eight areas of team leadership. Five of these areas focus on the type of team culture you build including: Psychological Safety, Interpersonal Understanding, Roles, Goals, and Confidence. Three behaviors relate to learning include: Coordinating, Adapting, and Continuous Improvement.
Author Biography
Anna Kayes (Ed D) is a professor of management at Stevenson University in Baltimore Maryland. Her background is in human resource consulting and executive leadership development. Her experience working with private and public sector leadership teams form the basis of the book, written with her husband and co-author, The Learning Advantage: Six Practices of Learning Directed Leadership. Other research has appeared in the Journal of Managerial Psychology and the Journal of Management Education. D Christopher Kayes (Ph D) is a professor of management at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His research on learning and the destructive pursuit of goals received the first most significant contribution to the practice of management award by a division of the Academy of Management. His analysis of the 1996 Mt. Everest climbing disaster also won a best paper award. He is author or co-author of four current and forthcoming books including Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt Everest Disaster, The Learning Advantage: Six Practices of Learning Directed Leaders, and forthcoming, The Breakdown and Rebuilding of Learning in Organizations.
