Building Team Power: How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results Hardcover – Illustrated, January 3, 2011

Proven, practical, and loaded with tools to help you develop the skills needed to boost collaboration.

One of the best books from my Master's in Organizational Leadership program.

Great book, step-by-step how to improve personal and team collaboration power. Used in a graduate-level class--please add page numbers to aid in citations!

After 35 years in corporate America coaching business executives, I believe Tom Kayser's book to be the BEST BOOK that connects leadership and team building theory with best practice implementation techniques. Building Team Power could be titled Building Leader Power! It's that effective in developing leadership skills to achieve critical business outcomes.This is a thought-provoking "How To" guidebook that will give any leader at any level new tools to add to their portfolio. The author has done extensive research, field-tested, and refined ways to effectively apply the techniques he recommends. He tells you what works by using proven models and specific examples and he ends each chapter with reflective questions that challenge the reader to think and write down what she/he will do differently going forward.Kayser's writing is like having a personal executive coach giving you the tools, as well as the ways to use them, to become a more effective leader of your team at work. Do not hesitate to buy this book. READ IT AND SUCCEED!

I have been an advocate of the concepts that Thomas Kayser introduced in his book "Mining Group Gold." My organization has seen the benefits of harnessing the power of more effective meetings and involving teammates. "Building Team Power" is a perfect companion! This not only builds on the concepts collaboration and consensus building, but also expands on conflict management and delegation. Perhaps one of the greatest parts of "Building Team Power" is the methods discussed for team problem solving. I can tell you first hand that incorporating this systematic and collaborative method of problem solving will create real, effective, and sustainable solutions! Too often in the past, we have all wasted time coming up with problem solutions that do not work. A key reason for this is that these ideas are put forth without really understanding the problem. The process that Thomas Kayser teaches in this book eliminates that.If you want to see your organization or team grow and maximize results, "Building Team Power" is without a doubt an excellent tool for you!

Building Team Power has been a great addition to our library. Our company has been using Tom Kayser's Mining Group Gold concepts for effective meetings for many years and has now added Building Team Power as another great tool! Building Team Power provides clear and easy team-building techniques to enhance collaboration. In our company, it is vital that we all collaborate, even if sometimes it seems difficult or impossible. If our employees can continue to follow this step-by-step guide, they will become better problem solvers, build trust and make better decisions every time through collaboration.The book provides clear examples, models and exercises that can be applied in any situation and at any level. I believe this book is an essential guide for any leader looking to develop their leadership skills and achieve results!

I was a user of the approaches that Tom advocates for many years during my career in seveal organizations and now I teach them to others as part of my consulting practice. With this being the case, I considered myself to be a subject matter expert on them. However, when I received the new addition of "Building Team Power", I took the time to refresh my knowledge of the processes. As I did, I not only updated my understanding as to how to build highly effective teams, but discovered new ideas and suggestions in the new edition that I will use in my practice. While there are many books in the marketplace on the topic of team building, "Building Team Power" is the one that recognizes that building collaboration is the key to accomplishing this and also provides solid usable methods to do so. I highly recommend it to anyone who leads or facilitates teams.

Building Team Power by Thomas Kayser examines the structural mechanisms and behavioral traits that combined to create highly collaborative teams. Thomas provides practical, detailed methods for leaders at every level of the organization to foster and enhance the collaboration between team members in six critical areas:- Mutual Trust- Decision-Making- Consensus Building- Conflict Management- Delegation Effectiveness- Team Problem Solving (two scenarios)I like Building Team Power for its immediately actionable insights into enhancing team collaboration at any level within an organization. I found Thomas’s methods to be deeply insightful, originating from sound academic principle and refined with real world experience during his thirty years at Xerox. Building Team Power is highly prescriptive, complete with process flows and charts that convey to the reader how to implement the team building methods.If I had one critisism of Building Team Power, it would be that the procedure-like formatting of the methods provided would be impractical to implement in a team setting. That said, I believe the book would make an excellent tool to create management training courses and teamwork checklists and guides.Building Team Power embodies many of the principles StrategyDriven recommends in building highly aligned and accountable organizations. Additionally, it mirrors many of our decision-making best practices. For these reasons, its academic foundation and real world refinement, and its implementability, Building Team Power is a StrategyDriven recommended read.All the Best,Nathan IvesStrategyDriven Principal