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Shaping a Winning Team
A Leader's Guide to Hiring, Assessing, and Developing the People You Need to Succeed
by Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam, PhD
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Pub Date 6 Aug 2024 | Archive Date 4 Sep 2024
Amplify Publishing Group | Amplify Publishing
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Description
Organizations cost themselves more than a quarter of their annual earnings with each bad hire. They rely on failed interview processes and fallible intuition of individual managers when they bring in staff, develop training programs, and promote from within. Despite good intentions, they set their people up for failure, while at the same time damaging morale and missing opportunities for higher-quality performance.
And yet we have the data to do better. Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam have decades of experience in the research and practice of human resources and management, and they share it in Shaping a Winning Team. This indispensable guide introduces you to the rowers, sitters, and drillers who you have on your team right now. The seeming simplicity of these labels belies the massive impact they have—good or bad—on your organizational success. The authors’ proprietary instruments, including the Positive Assessment Tool (PAT℠), use science to help you attract the personality and behavioral traits that will determine your success as you elevate your rowers, shift your sitters, and shed the drillers.
Fayad and Lam provide leadership methods to help you accentuate the strengths of your people as you hire, assess, and manage your most important assets. Join them as you create an organizational culture that is lasting and positive—one that is built for the modern workplace to reduce turnover and increase productivity and quality.
Advance Praise
“Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam’s Shaping a Winning Team is an essential road map for any leader intent on cultivating a top-tier team. This book provides modern and research-backed leadership strategies, giving leaders a strategic approach to not only hire and assess but also to nurture and develop the potential within their teams. It’s a testament to the fact that the most successful teams are built through a careful balance of recognizing talent and fostering growth, underpinned by a strong foundation of self-awareness and positive reinforcement. Fayad and Lam have crafted the ultimate guide to shaping a winning culture, no matter the industry or position you’re in.”—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
“Surrounding yourself with the people you need to succeed is the best decision you can make. Shaping a Winning Team helps you do it FASTER, making talent and culture your ultimate competitive advantage.”—Paul Epstein, former NFL and NBA executive; bestselling author of Better Decisions Faster and The Power of Playing Offense
“The key to a flourishing organization is leadership that is human-centric and compassionate, aware of the power of having the right people all rowing in the same direction. Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam illustrate that through their experience, research, and creative approaches to workplace excellence.”—Deb Smolensky, global well-being and engagement practice leader and bestselling author of Brain On!
“Team cohesion and communication are the lifeblood of a successful organization, and the best mentors know how to develop those skills among their employees. Shaping a Winning Team, including the authors’ own Positive Assessment Tool, is an accessible journey to help leaders take on this critical task with confidence.”—Beck Besecker, tech entrepreneur and author of Your Good Work Habits Toolbox
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781637559062 |
PRICE | US$28.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 232 |
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Featured Reviews
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Good insights for management, leaders and organisations.
This book has a good structure,
I was not the most ideal audience, but I took away insights, and I enjoyed many of the anecdotes and analogies.
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Overall the book is interesting and provides insights on team members and their input in organization development and team performance. The referral goes to rowers, sitters and drillers as well as how to identify, deal with and manage them. For me the main point of management learnt from the book is around positivity in team's life and dealing with assignments. This is connected to PAY (positivity assessment tool) reviewed in the book. There are some good ideas on improving team dynamics and supporting positive growth and performance.
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