High Five Teams: The Team Building Book for the 21st Century

By:  Kenneth H. Blanchard, Parisi-Carew, Sheldon Bowles, Don Carew Publisher:   Media:  Hardcover Availability:  Limited availability

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Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Great Advice for Adult Coachs of Children's Sports Teams!
I found this book to be totally delightful as a model for how to be a better adult coach of a children's team. For many years, I have recommended that all those who want to learn how to be better leaders and managers begin by taking on these coaching chores. This is the first book I have ever seen that successfully captures the important principles of coaching these teams. This book deserves many more than five stars for that accomplishment!

The benefits of that are many. First, the players will get a role model of how to cooperate in order to be more effective. Second, the coaches will learn how to be better leaders, and will be able to use that skill in other areas of their lives. Third, the parents will learn what to encourage their children to do in order to get the most from the team experience, and this will bring parents and their children closer together.

The book's fable boils down to four key principles:

(1) The team needs a shared purpose, values and goals.

(2) Skills need to be developed individually that enhance the team's effectiveness.

(3) Enhance team effectiveness by integrating the individual skills properly.

(4) Repeatedly reward and recognize individuals for taking actions that enhance team effectiveness.

A weakness of the fable is that it doesn't give enough attention to how to achieve the first principle for the typical team. My suggestion is that you poll your players before the first practice to find out what their purposes, goals, and values are. Then hold a meeting to discuss what you learned, and build a consensus from there. My experience has been that 99 percent of the players want to have fun, want to improve, and win at least a few games. Be sure to find out what they think is "fun" because it's often different from what the coaches would assume. Fun usually turns out to be loosely supervised scrimmaging time. When that was the case, I ran a brief such scrimmage at the end of every practice until the last player was picked up by her or his parents.

The other place where I would like to make a suggestion is about recognition. I was a coach for 14 years, and I found that giving individual awards to every player for every game worked very well. Everybody does something right at least once in a game. I would make a note of it, describe the reasons for each award, and hand out a little token at the end of each game for each such award. At the end of the season, the player could turn in these tokens for other forms of recognition. I also shouted out the person's name and award when they won one. That way, each child could be a winner every time we played, even if the team lost. And we did not lose very often. The players loved to win those awards for passing, defense, and offense. Scoring accounted for well less than 10 percent of the awards in my experience.

This book has one of the best exercises I have ever seen for convincing people to work on team skills. You divide the players into the "best" math students and the least good ones. Then you teach the least good ones how to cooperate to win an addition game. You let the "best" math students struggle on their own. The least good ones will win almost every time. That will make quite an impression on the players about the importance of teamwork.

The book is probably intended to encourage teamwork on the job, as well. That translation will be harder for most to make. The work environment is mentioned relatively little in the book. Also, how is the sense of shared purpose, values and goals supposed to emerge? You may know how to do that from your own experience and reading other books, but most people reading this book will be at sea. Also, how do you decide which skills the team needs to work on? That is also something you may already know how to do, but most people do not. And the book doesn't explain. I'm sure you see the problem.

I do think that the book will be somewhat effective in making those who focus on their individual work performance rather than the company performance think twice. The analogy (not used in the book) that may help is of Michael Jordan. As a young player, he focused on his own statistics and the Bulls did not win championships. Later, he worked on making the other players better, and the Bulls won all the time. Phil Jackson, as coach, played an important role in that transition. That example will be known to most basketball fans.

Let me compliment the authors on their fable. I have read their other books, and this one is both more interesting and more heartwarming than the others.

After you have finished reading this book and applying its lessons to a coaching situation with youngsters, I suggest that you read The Goal and The Fifth Discipline to get ideas about how shared purposes, goals, and values can be developed in the workplace. These books will also give you many ideas about the skills that a business team needs in order to be more effective.

By the way, if one of your children or grandchildren is about to start a sport where you will not be coaching, I suggest you give a copy of this book to the coach and ask how you can help the team. He or she will undoubtedly get the message.

May your life be filled with high fives!

Powerful messages in simple words
High Five! is an excellent book with powerful messages in simple words. The book starts with Alan, one of the productive guys getting fired from his company reluctantly taking up a coaching assignment of a local Ice Hockey club. How he builds up the team spirit with the help of an old teacher forms the rest of the book.

The message conveyed about the need for the team spirit and the means to achieve them are really wonderful. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking at working with a team, building a team or for that matter getting the most out of the team.

Happy reading!

Another great book hitting the messages home in parables
easy to read, exciting and has fully motivated me to direct my small company to improving client services and profitability through team building. we can see that we will get the most out of this by using it in conjuction with his other books ' raving fans' and 'big bucks' about to buy 'gung ho'. Very exicted by these books and can't wait to implement the host of concepts that have come from them. Will let you know later how we got on. Derek Williams

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

Quick & Fun Read for Any Coach or Team Builder
As with all Blanchard books, he works with the other authors and does a great job sharing simple effective solutions within the framework of a story. High Five is a foundational read for all our team building clients and I have ordered the book for our football coaching team as well. It was a nice recognition of the need to adapt the basic learning points of the PUCK acronym Providing Purpose and Values, Unleashing and Developing Skills, Creating Team Power and Keeping the Accent on the Positive to one fit for business, POWER - Purpose/Values, Empowerment, Relationships & Communications, Flexibility, Optimal Performance, Recognition and Appreciation and Morale. While none of this is new, there is always something to learned from the story. And like anything else, if anyone can execute on these fundamentals, great teams can be the result.

Guidance for managers, educators, and students alike!
Book written to be easily read by adults and students. Love the context and the teamwork tips that have been incorporated. Read with your coworkers, or with your class of students when wanting to build teamwork skills.

Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful. As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences. The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around. With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride. This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book. Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site. One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied. There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention. I recommend this book to everyone.

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