16 Essential Qualities of a Team Player

Adaptable
1. If you won’t change for the Team, the Team May change for you.
2. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Collaborative
1. Working together precedes winning together.
2. Collaboration is multiplication.

Committed
1. There are no halfhearted Champions.
2. Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on their World.
3. Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. (George Halas)

Communicate
1. A team is many voices with a single heart.
2. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people (Yeats)

Competent
1. If you can’t, your team won’t.
2. People forget how fast you did a job, but remember how well you did it.
3. Building a team is as important as producing a product.
4. Inspiration is easy; implementation is the hard part.

Dependable
1. Teams go to, GO – TO Players.
2. Dependability is more than ability alone.
3. It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what is required.

Disciplined
1. Where there’s a will, there’s a win.
2. Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
3. What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self- discipline.

Enthusiastic
1. Your heart is the source of energy for the team.
2. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
3. I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about their work. Not only will they never be satisfied, but also they will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Intentional
1. Make every action count.
2. You have got to think about “big things” while you are doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
3. One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something. (Henry Thoreau)

Mission Conscious
1. The “BIG” picture is loud & clear.
2. The secret to success is the constancy to purpose.
3. He who has a “WHY” to live for can bear almost any “how”.

Prepared
1. Preparation can mean the difference between winning and losing.
2. It is better to prepare then repair.
3. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success. (Henry Ford)

Relational
1. If you get along, others will go along.
2. Relationships are the glue that holds team members together.

Self Improving
1. Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts. (John Wooden)
2. Learn as if you were to live forever; Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
3. Pride is a serious enemy of self improvement.

Selfless
1. There is no “I” TEAM.
2. Loyalty fosters unity and unity breeds team success.

Solution Oriented
1. Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
2. No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Tenacious
1. To see far is one thing; going there is another (Constantin Brancusi)
2. To finish first, you must finish.