When: Friday -January 9, 2009- (9:15am-12:00pm)

Topic: Flow Oriented Teaming

Facilitator: Dr. Robert C. Preziosi

Our meeting this month is January 9th and in a new location for one month only. We will be meeting at DeVryUniversity - TampaBayCenter at 3030 N. Rocky Point Drive West.

Directions: From Courtney Campbell, turn North onto Rocky Point Drive, then go left to the first parking lot and office building. (First Floor - Barb Dandro will be there to direct people to the correct room.)

Our meeting will be on Flow Oriented Teaming - a tool for practical team success and facilitated by Dr. Robert C. Preziosi.

Flow Oriented Teaming is a behavior-based model with dual paths, team leader behavior and team member behavior. It also addresses priority issues for each of the 6 stages of the model. However, unlike most other team models , the behavior in the stages become intertwined on a continuous basis. As a team is built, there is one set of behaviors building upon previous set(s) of behavior. Once a team is a team there is continuous movement throughout an intertwined circuitry as various elements impact the multiplicity of leader and member behaviors. Only constancy of performance based upon a team's level of adaptability keeps a team functioning as such.

Dr. Robert Preziosi is a professor of management with the Wayne Huizenga Graduate School of Business and Entrepreneurship at NovaSoutheasternUniversity. He is faculty chair of HRM and developed the school's Master's Degree in Leadership. Bob has worked as a human resource director, line manager, business school dean, and leadership training administrator. He has been published in various national publications, including Training Professor, and Quality Review. He has been a consultant to consultants, educator of educators, and a trainer of trainers. He is on the Editorial Boards of Employment Relations Today and Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal and has just completed a book on leadership, The Leadership Road.