"Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders" is a practical guide for building and sustaining top performing teams. Based on the author's many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sector, the Second Edition describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them productive. A bestseller in its "First Edition," "Creating Effective Teams, Second Edition" is sure to be a perfect fit for team leaders and members, trainers, managers, consultants, psychologists, military, and educators. It contains the following chapters: (1) Why Groups?; (2) Effective Organizational Support for Teams; (3) From Groups to Teams: The Stages of Group Development; (4) How Do High Performance Teams Function?; (5) Effective Team Members; (6) Effective Team Leadership; (7) Navigating Stage 1; (8) Surviving Stage 2; (9) Reorganizing at Stage 3; and (10) Sustaining High Performance.