Success through teamwork: a practical guide to interpersonal team dynamics

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Title Success through teamwork: a practical guide to interpersonal team dynamics
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 1994
Authors Chang, R. Y.
Publisher Richard Chang Associates
Keywords empathy, involvement, motivation, participation
Notes motivation"Not all team members are equally motivated to participate and be productive. In addition to motivating productive members, you must motivate average or nonparticipating members to increase their commitment to the team.

The following strategies can help you turn nonparticipating team members into active participants:
* Seek their advice
* Make them teachers
* Involve them in presentations
* Delegate 'star projects' " (p. 85)

empathy"When you listen with empathy to the feelings and ideas of others, they feel genuinely understood." (p. 33)