Effective management includes the ability to create a team of individuals that can carry out the work of the agency, pursue the agency's mission and goals, use resources well, address challenges, and ensure delivery of quality services to children and families over time. The following resources describe the importance of management teams and provide guidance for effective team building.
3 Tools to Guide Change Efforts
National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (2016)
Presents three tools used by managers and teams to guide change efforts. The three tools reviewed are an ecomap, a logic model, and an action plan. This two-minute course includes a video and an accompanying handout.
Change and Implementation in Practice: Teaming
Capacity Building Center for States
Examines the process of teaming and presents resources for agency managers, members of implementation teams, and others on how to establish a team structure and identify team members; how to develop a team charter and communication plan; and how to work collaboratively to guide change. The website also offers additional teaming resources such as videos, a workbook, and a webinar.
Group and Team Management
LumenLearning.com
Offers an online course on the differences between a group and a team, types of teams, creating effective teams, and how to turn individuals into successful team contributors.
How to Develop High-Performing Teams Within Your Nonprofit
Martin (2019)
NonProfit PRO
Reviews how organizations can build high-performing teams and presents information on how to lead collaboratively, build trust, and create goals for the best possible outcomes.
Journey of Change: Building Your Team
Capacity Building Center for Tribes (2018)
Offers suggestions on how to build an effective change team through an interactive module. It reviews why teams are important, relationship mapping, building new relationships and strengthening existing ones, sharing a vision of change, communicating that vision of change, and more.
Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (2017)
Focuses on training managers and supervisors to be effective leaders, implement change in a positive way, and lead their teams successfully through an evidence-based implementation.
Strengths Based Teams
National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (2016)
Provides information for managers on building a strengths-based team using four leadership domains: strategic thinking, influencing, relationship building, and executing. Members of a team should have the skills to cover these four domains. The four-minute course includes a video and an accompanying handout, which offers additional links to resources on teams; tips on managing different personality types; adaptive leadership; and other related topics.