Super teams: Books
The Super Teams Book
- How you can build a super team?
- How can you build on your peoples’ strengths?
- How can you encourage them to do superb work?
- How can you enable them to achieve the team’s picture of perfection?
Great teams are based on ’similarity of spirit and diversity of strengths’ - diversity of spirit is a recipe for disaster.
They also have the right balance of Soul Players and Star Players—they have no Semi-Detached players. Packed with exercises you can use with your team, this book goes beyond theory. It provides an inspirational yet practical approach that has been shown to actually work in organizations. The Super Teams Book is an invaluable tool you can use for guiding your people to success.
“The Super Teams Book is a great companion volume to The Magic Of Work. Being both inspirational and pragmatic, it shows how people can co-ordinate their talents to achieve success. The book goes beyond theory—it provides tools that actually work. Perhaps more importantly, the approach it outlines is transferable. Within our company, for example, leaders, managers and internal consultants have implemented the ideas to build super teams across the business. Managing a constellation of soul players and star players can be challenging, but this book shows how to make it happen.”
Stephen Harvey, Group Director, People & Culture, Microsoft Limited
“This book unravels the mysteries of building ‘Super Teams’. It offers a rich ‘toolbox’ that equips people to tackle the demands of the 21st century and some leading companies are following the principles to astonishing effect. The Super Team’s Book offers your team practical ideas and tools that they can use to achieve outstanding success.”
Sue Moore, Managing Director, Amadeus Network Limited
“Mike’s contribution at Trayport has shown that his work provides enormous benefit to small entrepreneurial companies as well as those that are large and established. Tough as well as encouraging, he really understands teams in the workplace and what he takes to create a successful culture. The Super Teams Book captures his approach and provides a wider audience with many practical tools that companies can use to achieve success.”
Alan Deller, Chairman, Trayport Limited
”Mike Pegg brings an approach to working together that is inspired, unique and invaluable. Building a Super Team is a privilege and proves that work can be truly rewarding. I believe that many teams can embark upon the journey offered in this book. By adapting the ideas in your own way, you will provide a stimulating environment for your people. The results will be profound. Your people will benefit, you will benefit and, most of all, your business will benefit.”
Amanda Mackenzie, Director, Marketing Services, BT Retail
“Mike is able to take an area that is full of theory and make it practical and relevant for all people who achieve their goals through teams. The Super Team’s approach is applicable right across our business and at all levels. It has made an impact in our organisation and will continue to do so in the future.”
Roy White, Vice President of HR, Sony Europe
The Strengths Way
the art of building on strengths
The Strengths Way tells stories of real people who have followed their vocation, found the right vehicles and done valuable work. It is also a source of practical tools and techniques to help others to follow this path in their own ways. The result of over 40 year’s work encouraging people to develop their ‘A’ talents, the book provides an inspiring compass for people, teams and organisations that want to achieve ongoing success.
“I have known Mike Pegg for years. He’s a fantastic encourager and his latest book, The Strengths Way is filled with inspiring real-life stories and great practical exercises which really help intelligent optimists find their way.”
Gerry McNulty, writer and performer
“The Strengths Way is a great book that mixes the theoretical with the practical in a way that makes the subject accessible to anyone. The book contains many case studies of people that have decided to ‘live the dream’ and follow their passions, often taking great risks, with inspiring results. The strengths approach described in the book also works superbly inside established companies that seek to harness the abilities of their people. I have seen it at first hand - and it works.”
Roy White, Vice President, Human Resources, Sony Europe
“Great performers play to their strengths - be it in music, sport or working life. At the same time, they find ways to compensate for their weaknesses. Over the past 6 years I have tried to follow this philosophy when leading teams and organisations. Perhaps the hardest part is helping people to find and use their real talents—the space where they can do really great work. Mike’s book provides many tools for making this happen and I have seen the benefits–both for individuals and organisations. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to find and build on people’s strengths.”
Paul Thomalla, VP EMEA, Stratus Technologies
“Mike Pegg is the great encourager, responsible for helping thousands of people to release their inner creativity. The many personal stories woven into the text are truly inspiring, as well as being instructional. The book applies to people in jobs, self employment or unpaid work. Mike says, “everybody has something special to give to the world”; this book will help you to discover just what that is. It will help you to build on your strengths and find your vocation.”
Barrie Hopson, Founder, Lifeskills International
