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The Practice of Professional Consulting
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The Practice of Professional Consulting

by Edward G. Verlander
October 2012
Beginner
320 pages
8h 22m
English
Pfeiffer
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How Team Building Is Conducted

Project Leader as Change Leader. The most difficult aspect of team building is getting team members to talk openly and constructively in an open forum about their own behavior and that of other team members, especially the behavior of team members that is preventing the team from achieving its goals. Because these conversations are difficult and make people feel uncomfortable, project leaders have a choice: to manage the conversations with the group personally or to hire an outside consultant that specializes in helping companies with team building. If the project leader decides to do the team building personally, it may be done off-site or in-house, but in either case requires the ten-step process outlined in this ...

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