High-Impact Tools for Teams : 5 Tools to Align Team Members, Build Trust, and Get Results Fast

Make every project a success with the Team Alignment Toolkit. Bring mutual clarity to the table, boost the contribution of every team member, and get successful results.

"If you are leading a team - or plan to anytime soon - you'll want to keep this book close at hand."
-- From the Foreword by Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School

Create Alignment
Align Stakeholders visually, clarify roles, and manage risks as a team using the Team Alignment Map.

Communicate Better
Ask good questions and surface facts with the Fact Finder. Manage conflict constructively with the Nonviolent Request Guide.

Build Trust
Quickly set the rules a team will play by and create an environment of appreciation and respect between team members with the Team Contract and the Respect Card.
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Foreword p. viii

Seven Great Thinkers Who Inspired This Book p. x

Meet the Strategyzer Series p. xii

1 Discover the Team Alignment Map
What it is and how it works

1.1 Getting Started: The Four Pillars of the Team Alignment Map p. 48

1.2 Planning Who Does What with the Team Alignment Map (Planning Mode) p. 86

1.3 Keeping Team Members on Track (Assessment Mode) p. 104

2 Put the Map into Action
How to use the Team Alignment Map

2.1 The Team Alignment Map for Meetings p. 128

2.2 The Team Alignment Map for Projects p. 140

2.3 The Team Alignment Map for Organizational Alignment p. 168

3. Trust Among Team Members
Four tools to create a high-trust climate and increased psychological safety

3.1 The Team Contract p. 184

3.2 The Fact Finder p. 204

3.3 The Respect Card p. 220

3.4 The Nonviolent Requests Guide p. 236

4 Dive Deeper
Discover the science behind the tools and the book

4.1 Mutual Understanding and Common Ground p. 264

4.2 Trust and Psychological Safety p. 266

4.3 Relationship Types p. 274

4.4 Face and Politeness p. 282
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Stefano Mastrogiacomo (www.teamalignment.co, Geneva, Switzerland) is a team tools designer, a project management consultant, and professor. He has a passion for human coordination and he's the designer of the Team Alignment Map, the Team Contract, the Fact Finder, and the other tools presented in High-Impact Tools for Teams. He's been leading digital projects and advising project teams in international organizations for more than 20 years, while teaching and doing research at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His interdisciplinary work is anchored in project management, change management, psycholinguistics, evolutionary anthropology, and design thinking.
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