Are You a Team Player?

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Are You a Team Player?
River Hill Athletic Leadership Seminar 2009
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Presentation created using ideas from The 17
Essential Qualities of a Team Player by John
Maxwell

• Goals of this Seminar
• To learn the qualities of a team player
• To learn how you can embody these qualities to
  become a true team player

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Adaptable

• Being flexible, teachable, creative, willing to
  make changes for the team, willing to take on a
  different role on the team
• To become more adaptable
• Try to keep learning new things
• Reevaluate your role on the team
• Think about how things can be done instead of
  what prevents you from achieving it
• Think through scenarios where you might have to
  adapt, such as
• To your teammates playing style
• To you teammates moods
• To the refs
• To field conditions
• To your role on the team

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Collaborative

• Working together, everyone adding something, not
  competing with teammates, concentrating on team
  not self, trusting teammates
• To become more collaborative
• Always ask, Whats best for the team?
• Get together with someone on the team you view as
  a competitor and figure out how you can work
  together to benefit the team
• Get together with someone who has strengths in
  your area of weakness and work together

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Committed

• Being determined to see it through, realizing
  commitment is a choice not an emotion
• To become truly committed
• Make sure the goals of the team and the team
  itself are truly important to you
• Risk giving your best all the time
• Realize there is no such thing as a half-hearted
  champion

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Communicative

• Making connections, learning about each other on
  and off the field, court, etc.
• How to be more communicative
• Make it easier for teammates to get to know you
• Follow the 24 hr rule address any conflict with
  a teammate with in 24 hrs.
• Spend time on especially difficult relationships
• Speak truthfully but kindly to teammates
• Make an effort to get to know everyone on your
  team
• Tell teammates when they are doing great
• Kindly tell them how to improve

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Competent

• Knowing your sport, your position, fundamental
  skills, and being committed to excellence
• How to be more competent
• Refuse to settle for average
• Work hard on the small stuff
• Work on performing consistently physical and
  mental practice
• Pick an area to specialize in
• Practice extra on specialty, weak point, or role
  needed by the team

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Dependable

• Making a consistent contribution, doing what you
  say, being responsible, exercising good judgment
• How to be more dependable
• Check your goals, do they benefit the team or
  just you
• Check with your teammates do they think you are
  reliable?
• Have a partner that holds you accountable
• Try your best to always do what you say you are
  going to do

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Disciplined

• Doing what you dont want to do, so you can do
  what you really want to, having disciplined
  thinking, emotions, and actions
• How to be more disciplined
• Do something necessary but unpleasant everyday
• Take on new challenges
• When you get mad, hold your tongue for 5 minutes
• Work on remaining calm when you get start to get
  mad or frustrated
• Work on fundamentals everyday
• Work out and practice in the off season

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Enlarging

• Adding value to teammates, valuing teammates not
  criticizing them, valuing what your teammates
  value, finding ways to help others improve
• How to be more enlarging
• Serve others first
• Point out others strengths and help them focus on
  improving
• Believe in others before they believe in you
• Make it a point to tell someone on the team
  something truthfully positive about their
  abilities everyday

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Enthusiastic

• CHOOSING to be positive (attitude is a choice),
  acting enthusiastic even if dont feel like
• How to be more enthusiastic
• Spend time with others who are enthusiastic
• Go the extra mile
• Strive for excellence
• Keep negative comments to yourself and try to
  turn your own thinking more positive
• Cheer for others when you are on the bench

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Intentional

• Working with purpose, doing the right things
  every day
• How to be more intentional
• Write down your goals and team goals and read
  them every day
• Explore your own strengths and weaknesses
• Specialize and focus on that
• Prioritize what your are working on
• Practice every day with the purpose of getting
  better at something specific

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Mission Conscious

• Keeping the big picture in mind, knowing overall
  goal, supporting the leader, making team
  accomplishment the most important, doing whatever
  necessary to achieve goals
• How to be more mission conscious
• Find ways to keep the mission in mind writing
  it down, talking about it, making a visual
  reminder
• Figure out how you can contribute best to meeting
  the mission
• Try to keep whole team focused on mission

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Prepared

• Being ready mentally and physically, knowing what
  your are preparing for
• How to be more prepared
• Thinking about what you will need or need to do
• Creating a list
• Learning from mistakes
• Visualize
• Practice, practice, practice

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Relational

• Caring about people on the team, treating
  everyone like they are important, respecting
  others, sharing experiences, trusting teammates
• How to be more relational
• Focus on others
• Ask teammates about their hopes, goals, what
  makes them happy, sad
• Share common experiences, spend time together
  outside of the sport
• Make others feel special

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Self-Improving

• Thinking about how you can improve and applying
  it
• How to be more self-improving
• Become coachable, ask questions
• Value improvement over self promotion
• Plan how will learn more

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Selfless

• Putting others ahead of yourself, being generous,
  worrying about what benefits the team not
  yourself, being loyal
• How to be more selfless
• Promote someone other than yourself
• Practice serving others, let others go first
• Give to others without them knowing it
• Always be willing to help your teammates even if
  it takes x-tra effort on your part

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Solution-Oriented

• Finding remedies, not faults, taking the attitude
  that all problems are solvable
• How to be more solution-oriented
• Refuse to give up when problems arise
• Rethink strategy if things arent going right
• Dont see things as problems, just setbacks that
  need to be figured out

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Tenacious

• Sticking with things even when they seem
  impossible, being determined, giving all you have
• How to be more tenacious
• Work harder practice x-tra before or after
  practice
• Never quit