17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player

Some Notes from John Maxwell’s Book, 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player:

• Most victories in life are achieved through small wins sustained over a long term.
• Union is strength
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
• Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point where they are convinced their idea is not going to work.
• www.qualitiesofateamplayer.com17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player.1. Adaptable.
• Teachable.
• Service Minded.
• Emotionally Secure.
• Creative.

2. Collaborative.

• Collaboration is working together aggressively.  Cooperation is working together agreeably.
• Perception.
• Supportive.
• Complete each other rather than compete.

3. Committed.

• There are no half hearted champions.
• Matter of choices not conditions.
• Lasts when based on values.
• Doesn’t depend on talent.

4. Communicative.

• A team is many voices with one heart.
• Be candid.

5. Competent.

• Pay attention to details.
• Be willing to risk and innovate.
• Do the last 10% of every job.
• Consistent
• Never settle for average.6.
  Dependable.

• Pure motives.
• Responsible.
• Consistent.
• If I can’t depend on you all the time, then I cannot depend on you at all.

7. Disciplined.

• Thinking.
• Emotions.
• Actions.
• Strengthen work habits.
• It is not enough that we do our best, we must do what is required.

8. Enlarging.

• Understand teammates.
• Value Teammates.
• Help others go to next level.
• Improve yourself for the team.
• Believe in, serve, and add value to others before they do for you.
• People tend to move toward those who increase them and away from those who devalue them.

9. Enthusiastic.

• Take responsibility for your own enthusiasm.
• Attitude is a choice.
• Act the way you want to feel rather than waiting or the feeling to develop .
• Go the extra mile.

10. Intentional.

• Make every action count.
• Work with purpose.
• Consistently focus on doing the right thing moment by moment.
• Have a purpose worth living for.
• Know what you do well.
• Prioritize your responsibilities.
• Learn to Say no.

11. Mission conscious (Big picture).

• Know where the team is going.
• Let the leader of the team lead.  Don’t hinder the leader.
• Put the accomplishment of the team ahead of their individual need to achieve.
• Do whatever is necessary to achieve the mission.

12. Prepared.

• Assess what you are preparing for, where you are headed, and what the price is.
• Alignment.
• Mental Attitude.
• Action.
• Learn from mistakes.

13. Relations.

• Respect. You earn respect the quickest on difficult ground.
• Shared experiences.
• Trust.
• Reciprocity.
• Get along with others.

14. Self improving.

• Fitness is desirable over fixes.
• Preparation.
• Contemplation.
• Influential people spend a  lot of time alone reflecting.

15. Selfless.

• Put other members of the team ahead of yourself.
• Be generous.
• Avoid internal politics.  Politics is posturing yourself for your own benefit regardless of how it affects the team.
• Display loyalty–if you do, it will be returned.  Loyalty fosters unity and unity breeds team success.
• Value interdependence over independence.

16. Solution oriented.

• Problems are a matter of perspective.
• Believe that something is a setback or a solution in the making rather than a problem.
• Problems are solvable.
• Problems either stop us or stretch us.
• Get out of the box, brainstorm, redefine the problem.

17. Tenacious.

• Giving all that you have, not more than you have, but not less either.
• Work with determination, don’t wait on destiny.
• Quitting when the job is done, not when you are tired.