Building Great Teams: The Project

Learn How to Build and Manage the Process of GREAT Teams - the Marine Corps Way!
Home
Publication
White Papers
Teams Training
Our Blog
Contact Us
Site Map
The Opportunity
 
A United States Marine turned business professional, Damian D. "Skipper" Pitts has been inspiring professionals in the business marketplace on the topics of transformational leadership, organizational behavior, team building, strategic planning, project management, diversity education, performance management, and Flawless Execution for more than 10 years. Throughout his professional career, he experienced his share of business failures, disappointments, and frustrations as he struggled to find purpose in developing his personal leadership signature and voice.

To help others in similar situations, Pitts developed a dynamic brand that has become a life within itself. The brand includes five publications and several white papers, known as the birthing ground for the entire brand:
 
The Art of Detachment: Breakthrough Principles to Transformational Leadership
The Building Great Teams Project:
  - Charting the Path of Organizational Politics
  - The Monograph: How to Build and Manage the Process of Teams
  - The Guidebook: The Essential Traits of a GREAT Team Player
 
The White Papers
The HumanSigma Ideation Series: 
  - LeaderShaping People and Transformational Change
  - LeaderShaping People and Team Intelligence
  - The Seven "T's of Oz" to Your Personal Transformation
  - Flexibility & Leadership: What Women Can Learn From The "Elevator"
Diversity Management: Facing a Giant! 
 
A Flagship Training Forum
The LeaderShaping Executive Development Program and twenty-eight additional training programs including The Elevator of Achievement: Determination Requires a “Choice” (the women’s voice of The Art of Detachment). The brand also includes a series of keynote speaking topics.

The brand's design is to inspire and encourage individuals in leadership to step away from popular culture, face the challenges of leadership and organizational behavior, and convincingly acknowledge that many of their personal and professional problems exist because they simply do not adapt well to the changing circumstances of modern day strategies and best practices to become a Champion of Change.
Featured Publications
 
Building Great Teams: Charting the Path of Organizational Politics is a book that hits at one of the most discussed topics within business media: organizational and inter-office politics.
 
The day of the individual worker is over, as today’s corporate arena demands that workers possess the ability to effectively work as members of teams. As such, this is a topic that is not limited to a certain region of the country or time of the year; it is an evergreen media topic. This topic relates very well to the Art of Detachment brand and should serve as a great launch point for this segment of the project. 
 
What: A guidebook for building workplace teams 
Format: Soft cover & Hardback | Pages: 227
ISBN10: 1-4196-7603-2
ISBN13: 978-1-4196-7603-1
Publish Date: December 2007
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing Company
Request a Copy: www.amazon.com 
 
Title: The Monograph: How to Build and Manage  the Process of Teams
What: A "how-to" blueprint for building and managing the process of team building
Format: Soft cover | Pages: 40
ISBN10: 1-4196-9172-4
ISBN13: 978-1-4196-9172-2
Publish Date: January 2008
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing Company
Request a Copy: www.amazon.com 
 
Title: The Guidebook: The Essential Traits of a GREAT Team Player
Format: Soft cover | Pages 110
Publish Date: April 2008
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing Company
Request a Copy: www.amazon.com
 
Check out the book trailer at:
Check out the Blog at:
Topic and Speak Points
 
A premier segment within the Art of Detachment brand, the "Building Great Teams" project offers a great topic to discuss with your associates across the organization as a timeless subject. The key for our team is to use the research-based principles and guidance provided within the publications and connect its relevancy to a wide range of professional businessmen and women in business and organizational leadership.
 
Here are the few ideas that readers can take from the series: 

- Tips for being a good team member in a high-
  stress environment.
- How leaders can diffuse inter-office politics.
- How to avoid office politics and succeed in
  today's team-based workplace.
- Why understanding organizational dynamics is
  the key to building better teams.
- How leaders can build quality teams in unique
  work environments (virtual workplace, etc.).
- Understand the process for building, managing,
  and sustaining a great team.
- The essential traits of a GREAT team player.

A sample of topics to be discussed by Pitts:

- Diversity in the workplace.
- Building quality teams.
- Diffusing organizational politics.
- The Art of Detachment (this publication and topic
  remains the primary focus of the project).
- Leadership in today's changing corporate arena.
 
To learn how to integrate the lessons, strategies, and tactics to build GREAT teams within your organization, email us at: damian@buildtheteams.net