Shaping a Winning Team: A Leader's Guide to Hiring, Assessing, and Developing the People You Need to Succeed

by Paul Fayad, Chak Fu Lam PhD

Overview

Organizations cost themselves more than a quarter of their annual earnings with each bad hire. They rely on failed interview processes and fallible intuition of individual managers when they bring in staff, develop training programs, and promote from within. Despite good intentions, they set their people up for failure, while at the same time damaging morale and missing opportunities for higher-quality performance.

And yet we have the data to do better. Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam have decades of experience in the research and practice of human resources and management, and they share it in Shaping a Winning Team. This indispensable guide introduces you to the rowers, sitters, and drillers who you have on your team right now. The seeming simplicity of these labels belies the massive impact they have—good or bad—on your organizational success. The authors' proprietary instruments, including the Positive Assessment Tool (PATsm), use science to help you attract the personality and behavioral traits that will determine your success as you elevate your rowers, shift your sitters, and shed the drillers.

Fayad and Lam provide leadership methods to help you accentuate the strengths of your people as you hire, assess, and manage your most important assets. Join them as you create an organizational culture that is lasting and positive—one that is built for the modern workplace to reduce turnover and increase productivity and quality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781637559062
Publisher:	Amplify Publishing
Publication date:	08/06/2024
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Paul Fayad is cofounder of Positive Leader and ELM Learning. He has focused on organizational behavior through more than four decades of founding and holding executive positions with numerous companies.

Fayad has consulted with corporations, school systems, and health-care facilities to establish programs based on positive leadership skills. He has lectured at universities and college business schools in the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong.

He has also cofounded and stayed active with foundations around the world that help children.

LinkedIn and Instagram: @paulfayad

Chak Fu Lam cofounded Positive Leader with Fayad. He is an associate professor of management at City University of Hong Kong and a recipient of the Poets&Quants "40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors." He studies leadership, communication, self-determination, and well-being at work. Lam publishes his research in premier management journals, serves as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Review, and was voted as one of the best editorial reviewers for the Journal of Applied Psychology in 2021.

LinkedIn: chakfu
Instagram: @chak.fu

positiveleader.com elmlearning.com

Editorial Reviews

"Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam's Shaping a Winning Team is an essential road map for any leader intent on cultivating a top-tier team. This book provides modern and research-backed leadership strategies, giving leaders a strategic approach to not only hire and assess but also to nurture and develop the potential within their teams. It's a testament to the fact that the most successful teams are built through a careful balance of recognizing talent and fostering growth, underpinned by a strong foundation of self-awareness and positive reinforcement. Fayad and Lam have crafted the ultimate guide to shaping a winning culture, no matter the industry or position you're in." —Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Surrounding yourself with the people you need to succeed is the best decision you can make. Shaping a Winning Team helps you do it FASTER, making talent and culture your ultimate competitive advantage." —Paul Epstein, former NFL and NBA executive; bestselling author of Better Decisions Faster and The Power of Playing Offense

"The key to a flourishing organization is leadership that is human-centric and compassionate, aware of the power of having the right people all rowing in the same direction. Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam illustrate that through their experience, research, and creative approaches to workplace excellence." —Deb Smolensky, global well-being and engagement practice leader and bestselling author of Brain On!

"Team cohesion and communication are the lifeblood of a successful organization, and the best mentors know how to develop those skills among their employees. Shaping a Winning Team, including the authors' own Positive Assessment Tool, is an accessible journey to help leaders take on this critical task with confidence." —Beck Besecker, tech entrepreneur and author of Your Good Work Habits Toolbox

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