The team you surround yourself with will determine your
success.
In any group, business, team, nonprofit, family, etc, it
starts with great people. Great people are talented, driven, and a committed to
the mission.
Often times, we are thrown into teams so we don’t draft our
dream team. That is okay. When the
culture is committed to the mission and values, it weeds out those who won’t
live by the values and mission. It also allows the new team members to decide
if they want to join.
When teams are committed to their values and the mission,
team members will have a clear set of priorities. They are first committed to the values and
mission. Then they are committed to the needs of the team. Then they are
concerned with the needs of themselves.
In Blair Singer’s book The
ABC’s of Building a Business Team That Wins, he says the qualities of a
great teammate are:
- Energy
- Unstoppable
desire to win
- Willing
to let someone else win
- Personally
responsible-no blaming or justifying
- Willing
to submit to the code (values)
- Unique
talent or ability
In the end, our teams are made up by the values we set and
live by. When we’ve drawn set parameters, our team will come together. Get ready;
some existing teammates will drop out. That’s okay. Take the advice of Bill
Cosby, “I don’t know the key to success, but I do know that the key to failure
is trying to please everyone.”
What are the core values in your workplace?
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