This is the third article in a six part series on The Ideal Team Player. Read the first, and second. Developing Humility I started this post with: “Here’s the one you’ve been waiting for”, but as I started writing I realised that this is bigger than one post. So I have decided to split up how to improve in each virtue into a separate emails so that I can do each one justice. If you’re looking to improve in Humble, “here’s the one you’ve been waiting for”. If not, I still encourage you to read on because even Ideal Team Players have room for improvement. So, you understand
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The Ideal Team Player – let’s break these down a bit
I recently posted about the Ideal Team Player, a model by Partick Lencioni that measures three virtues of what he says it takes to be an ideal team player; Humble, Hungry, Smart. No one is perfect. We all have bad days or bad times in our life when we don’t show up at our best, but through self-development and making the active choice to be the best we can be, we can edge closer and closer to showing up more often than not as an Ideal Team Player. For those of you following my posts on The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team, this model speaks directly to that one. When we can show up
Are you an Ideal Team Player?
What do you think? Would you say that you're an ideal team player? One of the easiest and most important ways to succeed in business, and even life in general, is to be a team player. Unfortunately, they can sometimes be few and far between. As leaders, we're always on the lookout for team players but we can’t often define what it is that we're actually looking for. Patrick Lencioni identified three essential qualities, or as he calls them, virtues, that make up an Ideal Team Player - Humility, Hunger and People Skills, or, Humble, Hungry, Smart. Many people possess one or two of
What is Clifton StrengthsFinder?
Conventional wisdom teaches us that if we want to improve, we must work on our weaknesses. Think back to your school days when your parents found you a tutor if you were struggling at English or Math. We are so focused on fixing our weaknesses that we don’t often think about increasing our strengths. Enter Donald O Clifton. Dubbed the father of Strengths Based Psychology, he developed the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment (clearly he was high Significance), an online assessment that identifies the talents in which an individual has the greatest potential for turning into strengths. Now
