10/20/2008

How Does Your Team Work?

The article, "Do You Have a Healthy Organization?" in the newest Exchange CD Book, Taking Stock: Tools and Strategies for Evaluating Programs, Directors, Teachers, and Children, offers these guidelines for teams that are functioning well...

• Staff members feel they are a part of a group and have a sense of loyalty to the organization.
• Staff members freely cooperate. They share resources, ideas, and experiences.
• Staff members feel comfortable enough in the group to openly express their feelings. The exchange of negative, as well as positive, feedback is accepted and encouraged.
• Conflict over ideas — goals, philosophies, methods, or results — is fostered by the organization.
• Conflict over personal issues is dealt with directly through confrontation or negotiation rather than by smoothing it over or ignoring it.
• Communication flows freely and accurately in all directions — plans, problems, decisions, and developments are shared freely by the director; and problems, suggestions, and criticisms are routinely brought to the director's attention by subordinates.

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Taking Stock: Tools and Strategies for Evaluating Programs, Directors, Teachers, and Children, an Exchange CD Book, provides a wealth of tools and strategies for evaluating the work of your program. It is an awesome collection of 64 articles on...

• Organizational Evaluation
• Director Evaluation
• Staff Appraisal
• Program Evaluation
• Environmental Evaluation
• Child Assessment
• Child Observation

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