Creativity in Virtual Teams or ABCs of Collaborative Change

Creativity in Virtual Teams: Key Components for Success

Author: Jill Nemiro

Creativity in Virtual Teams offers a well-researched and practical resource that outlines a new model for attaining high levels of creativity in virtual working arrangements to anyone who designs, manages, or participates in virtual teams. Written by Jill E. Nemiro—an expert in building organizations and virtual teams—Creativity in Virtual Teams provides a valuable tool that takes you beyond mere theory. Within these pages, the author leads you through a series of diagnostic tools, questions for reflection, checklists, and exercises that will help you assess and develop the five key components—design, climate, resources, norms and protocols, and continual assessment and learning—that will foster creativity in your virtual teams. In addition, Creativity in Virtual Teams is filled with illustrative lessons learned from nine highly successful and innovative virtual teams.

Look this: Applied Measurement or Political Economy of Uneven Development

ABCs of Collaborative Change: The Manager's Guide to Library Renewal

Author: Kerry David Carson

The renewed library is a patron's first service enterprise. The ABCs of Collaborative Change prescribes the steps for moving from traditional to renewed library, including planning, implementing, and surviving change. This process is one that involves all staff, helping them to buy into the renewal. Positive change and transformation can take place only when everyone in the library organization is involved in planning and implementing change initiatives. The best approach is through collaborative change - involvement and participation of all who will be affected. The ABCs of Collaborative Change offers a clear road map to implementing change through positive initiatives that involve all staff. The ABCs of collaborative change are: Achieving the renewal, Building the foundation for renewal, and Cementing the renewal. Renewall of the library is dependent on how change is implemented, on who is involved, and on staff working together through each step. The ABCs of Collaborative Change tells how to get there from here.

Table of Contents:

	Figures
	Forms
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Achieving the Renewal	17
1	Assembling High-Performance Teams	19
2	Bridging Value Differences	33
3	Clearing the Path for Leadership	44
4	Developing Empowered Staff	54
5	Enhancing Organizational Learning	63
6	Facilitating Harmony	72
7	Gaining Stability by Managing Turnover	84
Pt. II	Building the Foundation for Renewal	93
8	Homing In on the Environment	95
9	Involving the Library's Stakeholders	105
10	Jettisoning Bureaucratic Red Tape	113
11	Keeping True to the Mission	120
12	Learning Staff Members' Needs	131
13	Managing Staff Conflicts	139
14	Negating Immature Behavior	147
15	Overcoming Defective Personalities	158
16	Pulling Others Along	166
17	Quantifying Quality Improvements	176
Pt. III	Cementing the Renewal	185
18	Rebounding after Rightsizing	187
19	Shaping a Strong Culture	196
20	Turning Antagonists into Allies	205
21	Undoing the Negative Effects of Stress	212
22	Vanquishing Resistance to Change	220
23	Winning while Preserving Relationships	229
24	Xenophilic Decision Making	236
25	Yearning for Satisfied Patrons	245
26	Zeroing In on the Workers of Tomorrow	254
	Index	263