Team Leaders and Middle Managers of corporate America are part of the hardest working category in today’s modern corproate environment. If you are trying to make a go of it as a Team Leader, you need to check out these books.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

This book is helpful to anyone who serves on a team, and specifically helpful for team leaders. You will see yourself and your team in this book. More than that, you will find specific steps you can take to make your team better.

A Team Leader’s Guide to Lean Kaizen Events

If you are a small to medium sized manufacturing company and need a straight forward handbook with implementable ideas, this is the one to get. The CD is helpful in providing the sample forms on Excel and even the posters can be printed for your needs.

The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire Your Team and Drive Creativity

Are you an aspiring creative leader? Then let Paul Sloane’s “The Innovative Leader” be a guide for your actions, for your business, and for yourself. It’s a great book!

Effective Supervision: A Guidebook for Supervisors, Team Leaders, and Work Coaches

Whatever the needs of your Managment program – no matter if it is online, in a class room, or even a short dourse or seminar – this book is an invaluable tool. Easy, simple reading.

Developing Supervisors and Team Leaders
(Improving Human Performance)

Very few organizations are satisfied with the performance of their first-level supervisors and foremen. Improve your organization with research from the University of Wisconsin.

The Team Leader’s Survival Guide

Packed with day-to-day advice and team training exercises and activities, this superbly illustrated guide features a month-by-month, week-by-week training plan that shows leaders how to take a team successfully through the four essential phases of team development – Preteam and New Team Development, New Team maintenance and Mature Teams. Created for team leaders at every level of experience, the book offers a flexible format that enables them to handpick activities that are appropriate to their team’s current development level. Can be used alone or with The Team Member’s Survival Guide.

25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders
(Essential Tools Resource)

This book is essential for those who wish to be a strong team leader running a highly performing team. Team leaders, as well as human resource and training employees, will find this resource invaluable in building a structured program. You’ll find easily executable concepts that acheive immediate results. External consultants will find it to be helpful in structuring their project plans for clients.

The Motivating Team Leader

Dr. Losoncy is one of the nation’s best writers on leadership and motivation. He informs you how to get people to do things without using power, fear, humiliation and expendability. It is clear that leadership is lacking in America and those in leadership positions in the 21st century will need to know ways to provide inspirational leadership.