The Transformed Team

THE
TRANSFORMED TEAM

About the book

The go-to handbook every team leader will want in their hand and every Team Coach will want to have in their bag.

In ‘The Transformed Team’, leading team psychologist, Dr. Declan Woods, provides forty dynamic practices to help any team work more effectively, perform better, and deliver the results their organisation expects.

Teams can often be complex, messy and somewhat slippery, and getting the best out of them can feel like an uphill struggle at times. It’s a sad fact that many teams underperform, and few ever realise their true potential.

This uniquely practical self-help book for teams will show you how to avoid common-place pitfalls. It demystifies the everyday challenges that teams face in the workplace, and, by focussing on only those things that make a real difference, it takes the guess work out of the drive for top performance.

Through an accessible range of tried-and-tested, flexible practices, you’ll discover how to build and nurture a united, cohesive team whilst getting to grips with those intangible, elusive challenges that can impact your team’s effectiveness and undermine its productivity.

Whether you’re leading a team or working in one that’s in need of some extra help and direction, this smart guidebook will provide you with a wealth of practices to adapt as part of your everyday routines, and the power to shift your team from simply ticking over to being truly transformed.

Here it is: a book that takes the guess work about how to create a high performing team written by a top class coach. It should be compulsory reading for all team leaders.

Professor Sue Dopson

Saïd Business School, The University of Oxford

If you're looking for an approachable read, full of practical, easily applicable tools to power a team forward, then this self -help book is for you. A great read. Highly recommended!

Andy Duncan

Head of Team Effectiveness, Natwest

This book provides a pragmatic and insightful approach to team development – the essence being based upon a principle ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’. This book enables the reader to explore different approaches, backed up by theory, to meet this opportunity

David Vineall

Group HRD

At last – a Team effectiveness book written BY practitioners FOR practitioners. All thoroughly researched and written in a way that can be applied straight away. Any leader dipping in and out of this book could not help but want to try out some of the excellent activities to create and drive high performing teams. I will return to it again and again

Roger Minton

Head of Leadership Development, Anglo American

With the increasing prevalence of team-based work, understanding the psychology behind what enables high team performance is essential for all leaders! There is no ‘magic bullet’ to high team performance, it takes deliberate effort and so much more than a team building! This book is highly accessible; filled with practical ideas and tips to be applied and tested in building a team that works together to achieve a common purpose.

Geraldine Percival

Group Head of Talent & Development, Asahi

Increasingly every Team Leader needs to be able to coach their own team so that it can function at more than the sum of its parts. Declan Woods is one of the most experienced team coaches and from his work and research he provides 40 great team coaching tools and methods with very clear outlines that team leaders can use to coach their own teams.

Peter Hawkins

Professor, GTCI

The biggest challenge in making teams more effective is not lack of will. It is knowing where to start. This book offers multiple ways, in which teams and their leaders, can begin the never-ending journey of transformation.

David Clutterbuck

Professor, Clutterbuck Partnership

Teamwork is vital for organisational success; it is also challenging and unsettling. This self-help guide is an invaluable resource for anyone managing and joining a team and provides practical exercises to work through any 'elephants in the room'.

Stephen Bach

Executive Dean, King’s Business School Executive Dean, King’s College London, KCL

A valuable contribution that deftly offers concrete suggestions on each driver of a team's effectiveness.

Max Landsberg

Director of the Senior Partners Office, McKinsey & Co.

At last a book that gives practical advice on successful team working. An essential guide for business leaders and teams who want to maximise and sustain their collective potential.

Suzanne Liversidge

Partner, DWF

Well done Declan - you were an outstanding coach when we worked together over 10 years ago and I can only imagine what 10 more years honing the craft has done. This is yet more well deserved recognition! Keep up the good work building those transformed teams!

Adam K

Senior Director, Deloitte

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Declan Woods is a top leadership team coach, Psychologist, and Professor of Leadership Practice at King’s College London (KCL).

Declan leads teamGenie (www.teamgenie.com), an international company specialising in designing, coaching, and developing teams, and on a mission to help transform every team. He wrote this book to show teams how to change. Declan created teamSalient (www.teamsalient.com) – the only British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited team diagnostic tool globally – to give teams the tools to transform themselves.

Declan was the first Master Coach accredited with the Association for Coaching (AC) and is a Chartered and Registered Psychologist. He led the creation of the AC’s executive and team coaching standards and accreditation schemes, and co-authored and launched the Global Code of Ethics (www.globalcodeofethics.org) signed by the world’s leading coaching bodies. He was made a Lifetime Fellow by the AC for raising standards of coaching globally.