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(More customer reviews)As a Counseling Psychologist specializing in working with teenagers, I come to Dr. Pellerin's book from a different perspective. I had to opportunity to participate in a 4-D workshop conducted in the private sector and was amazed at how deeply the 4-D construct understood and spoke to the fact that teams consist of individuals who often have fundamental personality differences that influence--and bedevil--their ability to communicate and cooperate with each other. One particular intervention Dr. Pellerin has devised is a communication instrument called the "Context Shifting Worksheet" that I now use to coach teenagers in how to structure conversations with their parents and teachers that will foster shared realities, cultivate agreement, and set the ground for making valid requests for things they want and need. The instrument is a masterful invention, to say the least.
Franklin Cameron, Psy.D.
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Every successful organization needs high-performance teams to compete and succeed. Yet, technical people are often resistant to traditional "touchy-feely" teambuilding.
To improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in "How NASA Builds Teams"-an approach that is proven, quantitative, and requires only a fraction of the time and resources of traditional training methods. This "4-D" process has boosted team performance in hundreds of NASA project teams, engineering teams, and management teams, including the people responsible for NASA's most complex systems-the Space Shuttle, space telescopes, robots on Mars, and the mission back to the moon. How NASA Builds Teams explains how the 4-D teambuilding process can be applied in any organization, and includes a fast, free on-line behavioral assessment to help your team and the individual members understand each other and measure the key driver of team performance, the social context.
Moreover, these simple, logical processes appeal strongly to technical teams who eschew "touchy-feely" training. Pellerin applies simple, elegant principles from his physics background to the art teambuilding, such as the use of a coordinate system to analyze the characteristics of team performance into actionable elements.
The author illustrates the teambuilding process with entertaining stories from his decade as NASA's Director for Astrophysics and subsequent 15 years of working closely with NASA and outside business teams. For example, he tells how the processes in the book enabled him to initiate the space mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope's flawed mirror.
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