Team Building - and making it happen

The Finnish edition of Antti Skyttä’s teambuilding book ”Teambuilding  – and making it happen” is one of the most read teambuilding books in Finland. It has been used as a teambuilding textbook in many schools and institutions. Now it is available in English as well, and exclusively as an iPad ebook edition.


Organizations are developing toward leaner structures. Every organization needs to decide how it will find their way in this challenging terrain.


‘Teambuilding–and Making it Happen’, maps out the ground: how we arrived at the current situation and where are we heading. It offers tools for analyzing the present situation of an organization and it outlines the terrain ahead. It is often possible to improve the current organizational structures through a team-based organization to achieve better results. The focus of the book is on describing how to carry through the teambuilding development process. It explains what teambuilding means in terms of an organization’s structures, values, systems, leadership culture and ways of working. It approaches the team building process from both the whole organization’s as well as from individual team’s point of view.


The book maps out how to implement the teambuilding process, including how to launch a team, how to find the path towards true teamwork and developing high-performing teams. 


The author of the book, management consultant Antti Skyttä, has consulting experience in organizational development processes for twenty years and teambuilding processes for fifteen years. He has consulted around eighty organizations. This book is based on his practical experiences of teambuilding.


Teambuilding – and making it happen is a holistic guide to the teambuilding process, and at the same time, a practical manual for internal organizational developers, managers, team leaders and team members.


Some reviews of the original Finnish edition:


”A Must read for every team leader.” (Sami Pääkkönen, Team Academy)


”The book serves as a good guide in planning and executing teambuilding. The author guides through the process taking into account many aspects and gives concrete tips for successful execution of teambuilding.” (Ville Lähdesmäki, RayQ)