Description

In the guide Sustainable Teams, consultant and speaker Frédéric Meuwly, Ph.D., shares his pragmatic and evidence-based approach to help organizations achieve high-performing teamwork.

The author views teams as complex human ecosystems that can achieve long-term success by focusing on 18 sustainability drivers for work groups. This guide includes three real-world case studies showing how these factors contribute to performance improvement, as well as advice on how to apply them in daily practice.

By fully leveraging the potential of collective intelligence, sustainable teams manage to co-create lasting value that serves a higher and more profitable purpose.

In an era where many organizations are still too focused on short-term returns, Sustainable Teams is a vibrant call to leadership to redefine collective work in response to the profoundly disruptive changes in our environment, our societies, and our economies.

Finally, this work can serve as a resource and reference for executives, department or project managers, and talent and organizational development specialists.

Table of Contents

P.08 PART I – The Magic of High-Performing Teamwork
explains what characterizes sustainable teams, highlights three underlying principles, and addresses the magic of high-performing teamwork, while also noting that groups have a dark, potentially dysfunctional side.

P.20 PART II – A New Paradigm for Team and Organizational Development
presents the concepts on which this book is based and explains why new models of organizational development are necessary in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, where frequent and sometimes disruptive changes have become the new norm.

P.31 PART III – Building Sustainable Teams: An Integrated Framework and Impact Model
outlines the 18 key team sustainability factors and emphasizes that their use leads to positive results in terms of team longevity, business success, customer satisfaction, and growth.

P.43 PART IV – Implementing Sustainable Teams: From Idea to Practice
presents three real-world case studies drawn from my team coaching experience, where my colleagues and I applied the approach presented in this book; mentions the challenges we encountered along the way.

P.74 PART V – How to Benefit from the 18 Team Sustainability Factors
draws up a catalog of best practices, with a list of things to avoid when concretely applying the team sustainability factors. Do not hesitate to delve back into this part of the book whenever a need for advice arises within your organization!

P.113 As a Postface

P.114 Acknowledgements

P.116 Bibliography

P.119 About the Author