Web sites
Community Toolbox (http://ctb.ku.edu/index.jsp) is a website created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Leadership, Management, and Group Facilitation section of the website includes information and techniques for building and leading teams, as well as conducting effective meetings of these teams.
Leadership and Teams (http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/LeadTeam.html) is a module of the National School Board Foundation Education Leadership Tool Kit. The module contains valuable resources on team leadership, including information on leadership qualities and self-assessment, a team climate survey, and suggestions on dealing with conflict.
Team Building (MAP for Nonprofits) (http://www.mapnp.org/library/grp_skll/teams/teams.htm) contains a compendium of articles and exercises on team-building and team-leadership
Teams and Team Building/NASA HQ Library Resource List #5 (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ppm/ppm5.htm) contains links and references to articles, books, and videos on teams, team building, and team leadership, as well as other NASA HQ Library Lists, including Group Dynamics and Decision Making for Project Success, Self-Directed Teams, and Interpersonal Relations and Team Success.
Publications Available Online
Team Effectiveness: Working with Difficult Behaviors
(http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ccvi/pub/ReformTalk/Year_1998/Apr_98_Reform_Talk_4.html)
A short article by Kent Peterson, Ph.D., Peterson, Kent. D., Ph.D., Senior Training and Research Specialist for Wisconsin Center for Education Research, about working with members of schoolwide teams who exhibit behaviors that make the team less effective.
Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Effective Teams (http://humanresources.about.com/od/involvementteams/a/twelve_tip_team.htm)
A short piece by Susan M. Heathfield that includes 12 practical tips for building an effective team.
Establishing a Planning Team (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Idea_Planning/Step_1.html). Step 1. of Implementing Schoolwide Programs: An Idea Book on Planning, Volume 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 1998 (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Idea_Planning/Step_1.html)
This chapter of Implementing Schoolwide Programs explores building a schoolwide team in the context of planning schoolwide programs for academic improvement and measuring their success in a cycle of continuous improvement.
Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections (http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/worktogether/worktogether.pdf)
This packet from the Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California in Los Angeles outlines models of collaborative school-based teams and interprofessional education programs.
