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Essentials of a Team Player- John C Maxwell

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The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player is another book by John Maxwell aimed at

helping people attain their personal and leadership potential in the workplace. The book

is organized into short chapters, each devoted to one of the 17 qualities that Maxwell

deems essential to a successful and harmonious workplace, qualities such as

competence, discipline, adaptability, commitment, selflessness, and preparedness.


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Adaptable

CollaborativeCommitted

CommunicativeCompetent

DependableDisciplinedEnlarging

Enthusiastic

IntentionalMission Conscious

PreparedRelational

Self ImprovingSelfless

Solution orientedTenacious

The 17 essentials qualities in a team player are

In this mail we will cover the next 9

essential qualities in a team player, which

are as above

In our last mail we had covered the

following qualities


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Enthusiastic

How to improve your enthusiasm? Show a sense of urgency. Give yourself deadlines and be a bit more

ambitious.

Be willing to do more. Go the extra mile with your teammates.

Strive for excellence. Nothing breeds enthusiasm like a job well done

People who bring enthusiastic attitude toteamwork often..:

Take responsibility for their own enthusiasm.

Choose to be a more positive person.

Act their way into feeling.

Believe in what they are doing

Spend time with enthusiastic people. Enthusiasm is

contagious

Meaning:Having or showing intense enjoyment, interest or

approval


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Intentional

To live with intentionality Have a purpose worth living for. You only need one good strong reason.

Know your strength & weaknesses.

Prioritize your responsibilities

Learn to say NO

Commit your self to long time achievement

Intentional

Makes every action count.

Is working with a strong sense of purpose

Is being focused and productive

They have very clear reason of doing what they

are doing

Meaning:Done on Purpose, Deliberate


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MissionConscious

To improve mission consciousness you must: Check to see if your team focuses on your mission

Find ways to keep the mission in mind

Contribute the best as your team member

The four qualities of a Mission-Consciousteam players are:

They know where they are going.

They let the leader of the team lead

They place team accomplishment ahead of their own

They do whatever is necessary to achieve the

mission.

Meaning:Keeping the goal or aim or target in focus & working

towards it


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Prepared

T

o improve prepared

ness you must: Become a process thinker

Do more research

Learn from your mistakes

To be a more preparedteam; remember the4 As :

Assessment

Alignment

Attitude

Action

Meaning:Be ready to do or deal with something; a state of

readiness


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Relational

To relate better to your teammates you must

Focus on others instead of yourself

Ask the right questions

Share common experiences

Make others feel special

Teams want people who are relational. Lookfor the following in your team relationships :

Respect

Shared Experiences

Trust

Reciprocity

Mutual Enjoyment

Meaning:The way in which two or more people or group feel

about & behave towards each other


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Self Improving

To become self improving Ask questions and adopt the attitude of a learner

Plan your progress

Value self-improvement above self-promotion

People who are constantly improvingthemselves make three processes anongoing cycle in their lives

Preparation

Contemplation

Application

Meaning:The improvement of ones knowledge, status or

character by ones own efforts.


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Selfless

To become more selfless Promote someone other than yourself

Take a subordinate role

Give secretly, without the other team members knowing

As a team member, how do youcultivate an attitude of selflessness

Be generous.

Avoid internal politics.

Display loyalty.

Value interdependence over independence

Meaning:Being concerned more with the needs & wishes of

others than with ones own


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Solution Oriented

To make yourself a solution orientedteam playerR

emember the 4R

s Refuse to give up.

Refocus your thinking.

Rethink your strategy

Repeat the process

Solution orientedpeople recognize thesetruths:

Problems are a matter of perspective.

All problems are solvable.

Problems either stop us or stretch us.

Meaning:Being able to find answers for puzzles, problems or

issues


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Tenacious

T

o improve your tenacity Work harder or smarter.

Make your work a game

Stand for something

Being tenacious means:

Giving all that youve got, 100% not more than you have

Working with determination, not waiting on destiny

Quitting when the job is done, not when youre tired

Push yourself beyond what you think you are capable of.

Meaning:Not readily giving up on something, Keeping a firm

hold on something or someone


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