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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams

How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results
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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams by Roger M. Schwarz offers insights into transforming your team's decision-making processes to enhance collaboration and performance. It provides practical strategies for leaders to create open and effective dialogues, ensuring every team member contributes to achieving shared goals. Focusing on a mutual learning approach, the book guides leaders in building smarter, more responsive teams in any business environment.
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If you are interested in enhancing leadership and team dynamics within your organisation, this book might appeal to you. It provides practical strategies for developing effective leadership skills and creating smarter, more collaborative teams, making it ideal for those passionate about business transformation and entrepreneurship.

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A proven approach for helping leaders and teams work together to achieve better decisions, greater commitment, and stronger results More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need.

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A proven approach for helping leaders and teams work together to achieve better decisions, greater commitment, and stronger results

More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get great results by just changing what you do. You also need to change how you think. Organisational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz applies his 30+ years of experience working with leadership teams to reveal how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset.

  • Provides practical guidance to help teams increase decision quality, decrease implementation time, foster innovation, get commitment, reduce costs and increase trust.
  • Outlines 5 core values leadership teams can adopt to exponentially improve results.
  • Author of The Skilled Facilitator and The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook.

Get the results you and your team need. Start by applying the practical wisdom of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams.

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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams by Roger M. Schwarz is widely praised for its practical approach to leadership and team development. Reviewers highlight its emphasis on fostering an open, collaborative environment that enhances both team and individual effectiveness. By implementing Schwarz's core principles, leaders can transform team dynamics, address conflict effectively, and boost overall productivity.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780787988739

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 April 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Illustration: Tables: 20 B&W, 0 Color; Exhibits: 20 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 476g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Roger Schwarz has been a recognized thought leader in the realm of team leadership for three decades. An organizational psychologist and president and CEO of Roger Schwarz Associates, he is a sought-after advisor to global companies, federal government agencies, and international nonprofit organizations. Clients include Hewlett-Packard, the American Red Cross, the World Bank, TransCanada, Chevron, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. He is author of the seminal work The Skilled Facilitator and coauthor of The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook . He holds a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, and a master of education degree from Harvard University. Schwarz lives in Chapel Hill with his wife. They have two children.

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