The workbook is a practical guide that combines basic concepts with dozens of valuable worksheets that team organizers can use to create a viable design plan. Attractively designed with clear graphics, sidebars, to-do lists, and diagnostic aids, the workbook details planning, design, goals, decision-making, communications, leadership roles, performance management, and more. The facilitator's guide outlines how to use the workbook with groups so that unit managers, project managers, design professionals, and human resource staffs can work efficiently with their management teams to transform their groups into teams.

SUSAN ALBERS MOHRMAN and ALLAN M. MOHRMAN are senior researchers at the University of Southern California's Center for Effective Organizations. They are the authors or coauthors of several books, including Designing Team-Based Organizations and Large-Scale Organizational Change. They live in Altadena, California.