Blanchard And Bowles 'Working Together In The Book High Five'

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Authors Blanchard and Bowles describes how its like to work as a team working together on their new book High Five. Alan the protagonist is a great producer who got fired because he learns that his son’s hockey team also has problem with being a team player, so with the help of a former girl’s basketball coach Alan and his son’s teammates learn about how to work together as a team. The four steps of working together is providing a clear purpose and shared values, developing and unleashing skills, creating team power, and repeated reward and recognition. Alan loses his job and becomes his son’s hockey team Warrior coach. He learns that the first step toward working together is having a clear purpose and shared values which creates common

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