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WHOLE SYSTEMS TEAMWORK

Two most candid Stories of leadership and teamwork by office and manufacturing employees, whose experience clarifies the meaning, the challenges, and the extraordinary benefits of a total organizational commitment to teamwork and collaboration.

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 (For more information on Story #1 and Story #2, click on DVD Title below.)
 ...plus: for a   Preview  of each DVD, click on  the specific pic below    

 Story #1
       Topeka  Pride     
Background       Material  
As one of North America's longest running team-based workplaces, the success of this Topeka, Kansas pet food plant presents a  'whole-system' model of teamwork for office & manufacturing work.
 

 

  "An extremely  valuable resource for teaching about
  new realities
 and  possibilities of the
 work world."

 
- Prof. Anil Verma
 University of Toronto 

 
DVD STORY MENU

A Participative Team System

Broad Skills + Job Rotation

 Team Concept in the Office

Challenges & Benefits

Team Leaders & Management
 
 

 Story #2
    Everybody  Leads 
Background       Material  
This 25-minute documentary gives a candid 'inside' look to how a self-managed work group functions, with rotating leadership roles, and workers making quality decisions in a world-class plant.
 

 

  "I have used  these video stories with a number of clients... Attention is paid when the message comes directly from a company that  has successfully implemented a PARTICIPATIVE workplace."


- Dimitri Pojidaeff,President,
Productive Workplace  Inc.  

 
DVD STORY MENU

Shared Leadership by Employees

Empowerment + Support

+ Whole Job

Just-In-Time Decisions

New Roles for Supervisors

Extraordinary Results
 

 CUSTOMIZED LEARNING – THEMES & RESOURCES

This program is a reminder of the potential value of teamwork in contributing to innovation and high performance.  The forms of "teamwork" have evolved dramatically in recent years, but what remains, and what this program illustrates are the timeless principles and meaning of "teamwork".

Key themes of this program are definition, understanding & commitment to a shared 'Whole' Task, Interdependence, Shared Leadership, and as described in "Team-Based Organizations" (see Good Reading): Whole Systems design of roles and support systems to encourage collaborative behaviors.

Themes of this program are linked to other programs in this DVD Collection; "Responsible Self-Management": Story 1. Cutting Edge Teamwork; program " Participative Work Design": Story 1. Re-Designing a Workplace for Self-Regulation; and the program "Engineering for Commitment": Technological Choice, Social System Design, and Legacy for the Information Age.

For more information—see "Whole Systems Teamwork": The Resource Guide.