Arlen Leholm

Arlen Leholm is Dean and Director of Cooperative Extension for the University of Wisconsin.

Raymond Vlasin

Raymond Vlasin is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus for Michigan State University. He was also director of the Natural Resource Economics Division of Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a Staff Economist for the House Public Works Committee.

Increasing the Odds for High-Performance Teams
Lessons Learned

Arlen Leholm

Raymond Vlasin

Click this link for Arlen Leholm's interview on Wisonsin Public Radio, "Conversations with Larry Meiller." Look for the listing on Monday, 2/27/2006, 11:00 AM

Have you ever wondered why some work teams greatly out-perform others within the same organizational settings? Have you questioned whether work teams from very different sectors of the economy and society achieved a high performance level by using similar means? Have you considered what you or others might do to help
teams increase their chances of becoming truly high performing? Increasing the Odds for High-Performance Teams is written for the business leader who is inquisitive but busy —who seeks new lessons about high team performance but wants them to be succinct and efficient.
The book is intended to assist professionals in private, public, and not-for-profit organizations who want to use teams to enhance job performance. Also, it is intended to be helpful to the team members, team leaders, mentors, coaches, and administrators across these sectors who want to diagnose their team and organizational conditions, in order to make improvements.


CONTENTS
•The Book, the Cases, the Protocol
•Learning from the Masters of Team Performance
•Quaker Oats: A Team at the Top with Joint Management and Union Leadership
•The Teams of TIGER
•Bosch Teams: Two Creative Arrangements
•Michigan State University Extension and Ohio State University Extension Self-Directed Teams
•The Women’s Interest Group: The Hill Women
•Broader Lessons from the Cases Explored