HOW TO BECOME A TEAM PLAYER

• Work with the team core ideology, goals, objectives and aims. You would be tempted as human to seek personal interest first, but you have to suppress such urge. In working alone, you would be limited while in working with the team, you would be enlarged.

•  Do not antagonize leader at the top even when you discover their weaknesses. Respect individual differences in understanding and approach to anything. You can help the team flourish with this understanding at heart. Cover the weakness of the leader by doing things right. It does not matter even if you were not recognized for the results.  Your creativity is yours and no one can take that away from you. 

• Discover your strength and use it for common good of the team

• Make honest contributions to discussion within the team. There is always a subtle and advisory way of contributing to matters even in the most unfriendly environment.

• Develop let’s do it attitude.

• Place personal interest last and not ahead of team interest.

 

HOW TO SET UP A TEAM.

• The definition: Define the following: What you want to achieve with the team, the kind of people that would help you achieve the primary objectives of the team, the set skills required by each member of the team, the overall skills required by every member of the team, team size etc.

•  The reflection: Think about individuals within your circle that have those required skills. Write out names of the persons you have thought about. 

• The reach out: reach out to each of the names that you have written down telling them clearly what you want to achieve and your desire to have them on your team. Let them know how important they are to the team. 

• The scheduling; fix a meeting with all members of the team. Ensure that everyone within the team attends the first meeting. Reschedule meeting if any member of the team is not available for the first meeting.

• The sales: at the first meeting, consider yourself as a sales person that wants to sell to willing buyers. You have to sell your idea to the team such that they can connect with it and fly with it. If you achieve this, your burden would be less and growth quick simply because you would be working with highly self-motivated team.