Glenn M. Parker

Author and consultant Glenn Parker works with organizations to create and sustain high performing teams, effective team players and team-based systems. His best-selling book, Team Players and Teamwork, (Jossey-Bass, 1990), was selected as one of the 10 best business books of 1990. Now in its seventh printing, Team Players and Teamwork has been published in several other languages and has been brought to the screen in an exciting new video, Team Building: What Makes a Good Team Player? (CRM Films, 1995). His training and team building instruments, the Parker Team Player Survey (Xicom, 1991) and the Team Development Survey (Xicom, 1992), have become the standards in the field.

Glenn is co-author of 50 Activities For Team Building, v. 1 (HRD Press, 1991), which was selected by Human Resource Executive as one of 1992's Top Ten Training Tools. He is the author of three resources for cross-functional teams: (1) the book, Cross-Functional Teams: Working With Allies, Enemies And Other Strangers (Jossey-Bass, 1994), a selection of The Executive Program Book Club and Soundview Executive Book Summaries, (2) the new manual, Cross-Functional Teams Toolkit (Pfeiffer, 1997) and (3) Cross-Functional Teams: The Simulation Game which he co-developed (Xicom, 1998). Glenn is co-author of 50 Activities For Self-Directed Teams (HRD Press, 1994) and author of a collection of training resources and job aids, The Team Kit (HRD Press, 1995). He is also editor of the HRD Press Best Practices for Teams, vol. 1 (1996) and vol. 2 (1998). His latest publications are 25 Instruments for Team Building (HRD Press, 1998) and TEAMWORK: Action Steps For Building Powerful Teams (Successories, 1998).

Glenn does not just write about teamwork. He is a hands-on consultant and trainer who works with start-up and on-going teams of all types in a variety of industries. He facilitates team building, conducts training workshops, consults with management and gives presentations for organizations across a wide variety of industries. His clients have included pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Company, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoffmann-La Roche, Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, Novo Nordisk and Ciba-Geigy; a variety of industrial organizations such as 3M, Kimberly-Clark, The Budd Company, Penntech Papers, Allied Signal, Pratt & Whitney, LEGO, BOC Gases and Sun MicroSystems; companies in telecommunications including AT&T, Pacific Bell, NYNEX, Lucent, Bellcore and Siemens/ROLM Communications; service businesses such as Commerce Clearing House’s Legal Information Service, Asea Brown Boveri(ABB) Environmental Services, American Express, Promus Hotel Corporation (Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns) and the New England Journal of Medicine; the sales and marketing organizations of Roche Laboratories and Pontiac Division of General Motors; health care providers such as Aurora Health Center, Pocono Medical Center, St. Rita’s Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center and Riverside Health Care Center; retailers such as Ann Taylor and several government agencies: Department of Navy, Environmental Protection Agency and National Insititues of Health.

Glenn holds a B.A. from City College of New York, an M.A. from the University of Illinois and has studied for the doctorate at Cornell University. He is much in demand as a speaker at corporate meetings and at national conferences sponsored by the American Society for Training and Development(ASTD), Lakewood Conferences and Center for the Study of Work Teams. He keynoted the BEST OF TEAMS ‘98 Conference. He is past president of the ASTD Mid-New Jersey Chapter and currently chairs the ASTD Publishing Review Committee.

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