Best Teams

Creating and Maintaining High-Performing Teams
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-394-24970-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

A complete model to create and manage high-performance teams within any organisation or industry

Best Teams: Creating and maintaining high-performing teams presents a unique model to create high-performing teams. This model is centred around three deeply intertwined elements. Empowered people, where each team member has a strong work ethic, is given autonomy, has integrity and a growth mindset. Defined processes, which ensure that high-quality communication, goal setting, accountability, and recognition is consistently delivered throughout the organisation. Supportive cultures, which prioritise cultivating a culture of resilience, psychological safety, inclusion, and a One Team Ethos.

Working on these attributes individually and collectively will help create high-performing teams within your organisation.

After exploring the basics of the model and the underlying theory behind it, this book takes a deep dive into:

- Real-world examples of individuals and companies that have nailed each part of the model
- In-depth interviews with leaders from world-class organisations—including elite sports teams like Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™, global businesses, and pioneering startups
- Exercises and tools you can work on as an individual and collectively to develop tangible skills
- The real effects of high-performing teams: 21% more profitability, 17% higher productivity and a 41% decrease in absenteeism

Best Teams: Creating and maintaining high-performing teams is a thought-provoking and highly practical guide to success for team leaders and members in organisations of all sizes seeking to bring their best to work and help their teams achieve optimal productivity, profitability, and wellbeing. If you're building a team that wants to do more than just perform—if you want to thrive—this book is for you.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woods, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements ix

Foreword by Sandy Ogg xi

Introduction 1

1 What is a High-Performing Team? 5

2 The Best Teams Model 11

Part I Empowered People 21

3 How Work Ethic Impacts High-Performing Teams 25

4 How Autonomy Maintains a High-Performing Team 45

5 The Role of Integrity in Maintaining High-Performing Teams 65

6 How a Growth Mindset Maintains High-Performing Teams 83

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Part II Defined Processes 103

7 How Communication Impacts High-Performing Teams 107

8 How Accountability Drives High-Performing Teams 129

9 How Goal Setting Maintains High-Performing Teams 149

10 Why Recognition Maintains High-Performing Teams 167

Part III Supportive Culture 187

11 How Resilience Impacts High-Performing Teams 191

12 The Role of Psychological Safety in High-Performing Teams 209

13 The Impact of Inclusion on High-Performing Teams 229

14 How a One Team Ethos Maintains High Performance 247

15 The Ecosystem of High-Performing Teams 269

Notes 283

Appendix Assessment 287

About the Author 293

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

MARC WOODS draws on his wealth of experience, including 17 years as an international athlete and 20 years working with senior executives and managers, for each aspect of his work. He works extensively with individuals, teams and global businesses, encouraging them to develop best practices within their given areas of interest.