Thomas Charles Belanger

Teamwork in Ten Days: Building Successful Teams in the Arts, Sports, Business, and Government Thomas Charles Belanger

Teamwork in Ten Days: Building Successful Teams in the Arts, Sports, Business, and Government is a self-help book and teambuilding tool. 

It consists of four chapters:

Chapter One: Teams are everywhere, from Ben Franklin's junto to a marriage, bands, groups, orchestras, combos, theatre groups, sports, teams, committees, project teams, task forces, etc. Introduces the team interaction continuum, twenty characteristics of successful teams, and exactly what you should do as a teammate. 

Chapter Two: Successful Musical Groups and Theatre Groups provides the dynamics of these groups, the team interaction continuum and the same twenty characteristics of successful teams, from their view, and how-to info for each one. Individual and Team Assessments and Action Planning included. 

Chapter Three: Successful Sports Teams, briefly describes the team dynamics of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, and soccer, and where they appear on the team interaction continuum. Also describes the same characteristics and what you should do as a teammate. Individual and Team Assessments and Action Planning included. 

Chapter Four: Successful Teams in Business and Government, describes a successful project team at New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. Describes group dynamics, social networking, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, etc., as well as the team interaction continuum, and the twenty characteristics of successful teams in business and government. Individual and Team Assessments included along with action planning.