Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel

Product Description
People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice. Build well-designed and efficient teams to get the most out of your organization, with step-by-step instructions on how to set up teams quickly and efficiently. You’ll create a process that works for you, whether you need to form teams from scratch, improve the design of existing teams, or are on the verge of a big team re-shuffle. Discover how New Zealand’s biggest e-commerce company completely restructured their business through Self-Selection. In the process, find out how to create high-performing groups by letting people self-organize into small, cross-functional teams. Step-by-step guides, easy-to-follow diagrams, practical examples, checklists, and tools will enable you to run a Self-Selection process within your organization.If you’re a manager who wants to structure your organization into small teams, you’ll discover why Self-Selection is the fastest and safest way to do so. You’ll prepare for and organize a Self-Selection event and make sure your Self-Selection participants and fellow managers are on board and ready. If you’re a team member, you’ll discover what it feels like to be part of a Self-Selection process and what the consequences are for your daily work. You’ll learn how to influence your colleagues and bosses to be open to the idea of Self-Selection. You’ll provide your manager with a plan for how to facilitate a Self-Selection event, and with evidence that the system works.If you’re feeling the pain and chaos of adding new people to your organization, or just want to ensure that your teams have the right people with the right skills, Self-Selection will help you create the effective teams you need.
Review

“I
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ve believed for a long time in the power of self-selection, so I am excited that there is finally a handbook on how to go about it. Sandy and David give concrete advice on facilitating self-selection within an organization and what to look out for. Anyone reading this book will feel prepared to embark on what otherwise might seem like a very scary journey. I will definitely recommend it to coaches and organizations I work with.”  – 
Karen Greaves, Agile coach and trainer, Growing Agile 

“Teams are the fuel that powers the agile engine. In this book Sandy and David explore self-selection, a process that helps professionals organize themselves into effective teams. The detailed descriptions of the why and how of self-selection and the many examples make this a very useful book. I highly recommend it!” – 
Ben Linders, Independent consultant in agile, lean, quality, and continuous improvement 

In Creating Great Teams you
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ll find guidance for building your strongest teams through self-selection. For most managers it
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s a leap of faith and the authors ensure a softer landing. They describe their experiences with self-selection. You follow along with helpful checklists.  I
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m a fan of great Liftoff activities for teams, and this one is outstanding. I look forward to sharing this book with managers and team leaders.” – 
Diana Larson, 
Consultant, speaker, and author of
Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams
and
Agile Retrospectives

“I love this book! I
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ve wondered about self-selection and how I might do it. I usually ask teams to self-select, but very simply and only with two teams. This book has provided me with step-by-step guidelines on how to scale my approach. I particu- larly love the section on what you should do before a self-selection event
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an often overlooked part.” – 
Samantha Laing, Agile coach, Growing Agile 

“This is dynamite! I now realize how much I wish I had had a book like this earlier. It provides a hands-on path on how to harness people
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s motivation through self- selection! I read it in just one go. Nice structure. Great language. Concrete. Inspir- ing. Love it!