Shaping a Winning Team

A Leader’s Guide to Hiring, Assessing, and Developing the People You Need to Succeed

Organizations spend too much of their earnings with each bad hire. They count on failed interview processes and fallible intuition of specific managers when they choose staff, create training programs, and promote from within. Despite the best of intentions, they put their people in position to fail, while simultaneously hurting morale and losing opportunities for better performance.

And yet we have the data to improve . . . by a lot. Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam have decades of experience in the research and practice of human resources and management, and they present it to you in Shaping a Winning Team. This essential guide introduces you to the rowers, sitters, and drillers who represent your team right now. The seeming simplicity of these labels undersells the massive impact they have—for better or for worse—on your organization. The authors’ proprietary instruments, including the Positive Assessment Tool (PATsm), use science to help you bring in the personality and behavioral traits that will ultimately help decide your success as you support your rowers, get your sitters to move, and let go of the drillers.

Fayad and Lam offer leadership methods to help you expand the strengths of your people as you hire, assess, and manage your most important assets. Use their work to create an organizational culture that has continuity and strength—one that is shaped for the modern workplace to lessen turnover and improve productivity and quality.

$28.00
ISBN: 978-1-63755-906-2
Imprint: Amplify Publishing
SKU: 18-1187-01
Categories:Amplify Publishing, Human Resources, Leadership and Management, Thought Leadership

“Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam’s Shaping a Winning Team is an essential road map for any leader intent on cultivating a top-tier team. This book provides modern and research-backed leadership strategies, giving leaders a strategic approach to not only hire and assess but also to nurture and develop the potential within their teams. It’s a testament to the fact that the most successful teams are built through a careful balance of recognizing talent and fostering growth, underpinned by a strong foundation of self-awareness and positive reinforcement. Fayad and Lam have crafted the ultimate guide to shaping a winning culture, no matter the industry or position you’re in.”

—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Surrounding yourself with the people you need to succeed is the best decision you can make. Shaping a Winning Team helps you do it FASTER, making talent and culture your ultimate competitive advantage.”

—Paul Epstein, former NFL and NBA executive; bestselling author of Better Decisions Faster and The Power of Playing Offense

“The key to a flourishing organization is leadership that is human-centric and compassionate, aware of the power of having the right people all rowing in the same direction. Paul Fayad and Chak Fu Lam illustrate that through their experience, research, and creative approaches to workplace excellence.”

—Deb Smolensky, global well-being and engagement practice leader and bestselling author of Brain On!

“Team cohesion and communication are the lifeblood of a successful organization, and the best mentors know how to develop those skills among their employees. Shaping a Winning Team, including the authors’ own Positive Assessment Tool, is an accessible journey to help leaders take on this critical task with confidence.”

—Beck Besecker, tech entrepreneur and author of Your Good Work Habits Toolbox

Paul Fayad

Leadership Entrepreneur and Consultant

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Paul Fayad is cofounder of Positive Leader and ELM Learning. He has focused on organizational behavior through more than four decades of founding and holding executive positions with numerous companies.

Fayad has consulted with corporations, school systems, and health-care facilities to establish programs based on positive leadership skills. He has lectured at universities and college business schools in the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong.

He has also cofounded and stayed active with foundations around the world that help children.

LinkedIn and Instagram: @paulfayad

Chak Fu Lam, PhD

Management Professor and Researcher

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Chak Fu Lam cofounded Positive Leader with Fayad. He is an associate professor of management at City University of Hong Kong and a recipient of the Poets&Quants “40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors.” He studies leadership, communication, self-determination, and well-being at work. Lam publishes his research in premier management journals, serves as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Review, and was voted as one of the best editorial reviewers for the Journal of Applied Psychology in 2021.

LinkedIn: chakfu
Instagram: @chak.fu

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