The Loyalist Team

How Trust, Candor, and Authenticity Create Great Organizations

By: Linda Adams, Abby Curnow-Chavez, Audrey Epstein, Rebecca Teasdale, Jody Berger

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Great teams are built and maintained with great intention, though they can make it look deceptively easy. Too many teams engage in dysfunctional behaviors or fall into territorialism, apathy, and unproductive relationships. The result? An overwhelmed, unengaged, and stressed-out workforce that settles for average or poor performance.

Here, four authors with a combined century of management experience show readers how every team can be extraordinary. The authors introduce their field-tested Loyalist Team 3D assessment that allows anyone to get to the heart of why teams break down, identify the weaknesses in their own team, and build a Loyalist Team. This kind of team has members who ensure each other's success as they work to ensure their own, operate with absolute candor, and value loyalty and authenticity to deliver results, create a healthy work environment, and help companies succeed. The Loyalist Team is a must-read for anyone who wants their team to achieve extraordinary results.

Critic reviews

"The Loyalist Team,provides a pragmatic approach to understanding how your team works and how you can help it work better. The authors draw from their vast expertise with thousands of teams to tell engaging, real-life stories about how teams of all types and sizes function and provide proven insights about how to achieve extraordinary results."—JudithE. Glaser, bestselling author of Conversational Intelligence and CEO ofBenchmark Communications, Inc.

"An honest, straightforward analysis of how to identify and celebrate not only what makes companies successful, it also tells us how and why we can experience failure. After reading this book, you'll know exactly how to build a winning team, a happy team, and above all how to create genuine and lasting loyalty."—Nina Tassler, advisor, former chairman of CBSEntertainment, and author of What I Told My Daughter

"The Loyalist Team brings to life the essence of team identity and culture, and how analytics and evaluative tools can drive self-awareness and future team success. An excellent guide for CEO's, talent management executives, and anyone looking to understand and improve team performance."—Barbara Krumsiek, senior industry fellow at GeorgetownUniversity Women's Leadership Institute, McDonough School of Business, andformer CEO of Calvert Investments

"With the Loyalist Team Model, I am really clear what is required of me as a leader and as importantly what is required of the team to build a really successful loyalist organization. I know I can never take the human dynamics on a team for granted."—Mike Goodwin, SVP and Chief Information Officer,PetSmart

"This is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how to actually build a great team. It is centered on the foundation that great teams are about great relationships that are built on trust and candid feedback. The authors showcase their insight by walking through the good and the bad from the thousands of teams they have worked with, sharing concrete, practical steps any leader
can use to improve the culture in their workplace. The Loyalist Team introduces a new paradigm for leadership that is required to compete in today's business world."—Rob Katz, CEO, Vail Resorts, Inc.

Great Book for All Teams

Would you listen to The Loyalist Team again? Why?

Everyone needs to be a part of a Great Team from home to office to sports. This is the way to finding a Great Team

This is about more than biz, it's life lessons!

Informative life lessons about teamwork, combined with engaging storytelling. Loved it. No matter where you are in life, this will help.

Must Read for Team Leaders!

At my first read, I was hooked! In the fast paced business world these authors have provided the research, methodology, knowledge and tools to implement the Loyalist Team concepts. Provides an understandable pathway for your team to start the journey towards high performance. Check out the website for their online tools.

The team every body should want

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, the way the book is readed it brings characters and situation alive.

What did you like best about this story?

The way it lays out the good, bad, ugly and then a solution.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It actually turned the light on myself and how I have been a member of all the identified teams. As I move forward my intention will be to be a loyalist team member or leader.

loyalist guidelines

What a great read about where you think you team is and how to work on getting them to a loyalist team. Very excited to get to work with our team.