The Essential Qualities of a Team Player

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The Essential Qualities of a Team Player

• Adaptability

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Todays Agenda
Teambuilding Game
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Team Player Focus Adaptability
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Roleplay Being Adaptable in Our Daily Operations
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Develop Our Mission Statement
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• Game

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• Why must we be adaptable?

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What do all of these pictures of in
common? (Hint its a person)
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The Adaptable, QUINCY JONES

• Musician (trumpet)
• Arranger (Ray Charles)
• VP (Mercury Records)
• Score music for more than 30 movies and TV shows
• Co-produced The Color Purple film
• Produced The Fresh Prince of Belair
• Launched Qwest Broadcasting
• Founder/chairman of
• Vibe Magazine
• Produced the best selling single of all time, We
  are the World
• Produced the best selling album of all time,
  Thriller

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Why is Quincy Jones known for being adaptable?

• Jones has an amazing adaptability.
• His flexibility has not only enabled him to work
  with all kinds of musicians from Latin to pop
  and from jazz to rap but they have also made it
  possible for him to bring the best out of any
  person he works with. He adapts to a person and
  the situation to create a win for everyone.
• He used his adaptability to branch out into
  other industries filmmaking, television,
  broadcasting, magazines, even broadway.
• Challenges have been no problem for him since he
  is incredibly adaptable.

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Adaptable People are
Non-adaptable People are

• Are Teachable
• Place a high priority on breaking new ground
• Are skilled in multiple areas of their job
• Emotionally Secure
• Are not nervous about change itself
• Creative
• When difficult times come, they find a way.
• Say, Lets try it!
• Say, Lets go there even if we blow it.
• Bring up the team!

• Unteachable
• Have a difficult time with change
• See new people or things as a challenge/threat
• Dont like to try it a new way
• React to doing things different with fear
• Not supportive of new ideas instead cling to the
  old ones out of habit or fear
• Say It cant be done.
• Cynical about new ideas
• Bring down the team

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Role Play

• This man is scheduled at 150 for his hygiene
  appointment. He arrives at 201, saying that he
  got held up at work. How can we show
  adaptability in this situation?

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Role Play

• This patient has just been told that she has
  Periodontal Disease. She is very overwhelmed and
  isnt sure how she can afford treatment. How can
  we show the characteristic adaptability to this
  situation?

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Role Play
These two team members are having an issue. The
team member on the right is upset that although
the team member on the left has had a patient
no-show, all the instruments in the lab are still
waiting to be done. She is running behind to get
her next patient back. How can both team members
show adaptability to get the instruments done and
the patients taken care of?
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Goal Develop Our Office Mission Statement
Mission Statement
Your Text
Our Personal Values
Our Work Ethic
Our Passions
Your Text
Core Values
Our Goals
Your Text
Daily Operations
Your Text
Standards
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Developing Our Office Mission Statement Core
Values, Daily Operations, Standards

• In your group,
• List key phrases that you think should be in our
  team mission statement

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Developing Our Office Mission Statement Core
Values, Daily Operations, Standards

• Lets come back together and form one Team
  Mission Statement

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• Our Teamwork Focus this month is
• ADAPTABILITY