Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams

Team Clock provides a wonderful common language for the development of professional learning teams.

Team Clock is a brief and unique analysis of the psychology of successful teaming. Through storytelling, case studies and graphics, Steve Ritter offers the reader a specific model and strategies for achieving effective teams – whether in sports, business or schools.

Throughout the book, Ritter emphasizes the need for skilled team work if optimum success is to be achieved. In an era when 'professional learning communities' are emphasized as the bases for successful schools, Ritter’s book is a valuable tool in teaching the essentials of how these communities might successfully be implemented.

Team Clock provides leaders and team members with proactive, clear and easy to follow guidelines to improve a team's communication, trust and comfort level. Your team will thrive in productivity and functionality and promote positive outcomes. Applying Team Clock concepts bolster healthy, dynamic, mutually respectful and collaborative cultures.

Team Clock is a perfect step up for students of team dynamics who are ready for a thought provoking framework that goes beyond the basic model of 'forming, storming, norming and performing.' Ritter’s work provides insight into group behavior and effectiveness, and the natural way groups evolve and grow over time. Team Clock is full of applications for every kind of group, from business teams to families.

Team Clock provides teams with a direction for future growth.

This book made me think hard - really hard - about what it means to join or lead a group of people. Short, punchy and powerful.

Team Clock has truly transformed the way my team communicates. I highly recommend it to business leaders everywhere.

Steve has done a masterful job bringing a great team development tool to life through Team Clock. A product of his practical and research experience, the Team Clock helps teams assess where they are and gives them the information they need to improve their effectiveness. I have recommended Team Clock in workshops and seminars as a way for teams to become high performing.

HCI members have embraced Team Clock as a simple, direct and powerful resource for engaging and leading teams in the new economy.