How NASA builds teams : mission critical soft skills for scientists, engineers, and project teams /
To improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, the author (a former NASA astrophysicist) developed the "4-D" teambuilding process described in this book. Relying on simple, logical processes that appeal strongly to technical teams who eschew "touc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
©2009.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Understanding and analyzing context. Think you can ignore context? Hubble's flawed mirror might wake you up
- Managing social context manages technical performance
- The 4-D system : a simple tool to analyze team and individual performance
- Using 4-D assessments and representative results from NASA. The 4-D assessment process
- NASA's 4-D teambuilding results
- 4-D diagnostics : how to color code your team's context. Using the 4-D system to color your personalities
- Using the 4-D system to analyze culture
- Incoherent project mindset colors? Update your resume
- Shifting the context. The context shifting worksheet (CSW)
- Red story-lines limit team performance
- Manage your emotions to manage your team's energy
- People need to feel appreciated by you
- Mine the gold in your shared interests
- People need to feel included by you
- Building trustworthy contexts
- Creating the future you want
- Your team cant afford drama
- Don't put good people in bad places
- Hubble's legacy.