Adaptable

Teamwork and personal rigidity don’t mix.

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The first key to being a team player is being willing to adapt yourself to the Team – not an expectation that the team will adapt to you.

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Collaborative

  • Cooperation is working together agreeably.
  • Collaboration is working together aggressively.
  • Collaborative teammates do more than just work with each other.
  • Each person brings something to the table that adds value to the relationship and synergy to the team.
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We have not come to compete with one another.
We have come to complete one another.
~ Bill McCartney

Communicative

Communicative players…

  • Do not isolate themselves from others
  • Make it easy for Teammates to communicate with them
  • Follow the 24-hour Rule
  • Give Attention to Potentially Difficult Relationships

Competent

People forget how fast you did the job – but they remember how well you did it.
~ Howard W Newton

Discipline

Discipline means doing the right things at the right time for the right reason.

Enlarging

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

~ Bill Russell

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Enlargers...

  • Value their teammates
  • Value what their teammates value
  • Add value to their teammates
  • Make themselves more valuable

Prepared

You can claim to be surprised once; after that, you’re unprepared.

Relational

Anyone who loves his opinion more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team
~ John C Maxwell

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Respect
You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody
~ Les Giblin

Trust
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George Macdonald

Reciprocity
If one person is always the giver and the other is always the receiver, the relationship will eventually disintegrate.

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