3 🔑 To Being A Better Teammate
(1) Listening
I’m sure you can think of at least one team you’ve worked on, whether it be for your job or as a volunteer, where there was someone who talked WAY more than they listened. Listening causes you to not dominate a meeting or conversation. Listening causes you to not make decisions in a tunnel/vacuum. Listening causes you to care for peoples hearts (who they are) before their hands (what they can do for you). Great listeners always make great teammates.
(2) Responsiveness (Is this a word?)
A lack of responsiveness non-verbally communicates that you don’t care. When you don’t respond to that email, text, slack/asana task note, or whatever else, it tells the other person you don’t care. When you respond you communicate you care. This may be the simplest thing to do to be a a better teammate, but so many people overlook this easy win.
(3) Celebrating
When someone on the team wins - you win. So celebrate! When a project hasn’t been approved for some time because the budget didn’t meet the needs of those above your team, but this week it gets approved. Celebrate the individual(s) who oversaw the budget and helped get this project approved. Celebrating the wins of the individuals that make up the team will propel the team forward to be successful. Who doesn’t like to be celebrated? A good teammate always looks to celebrate others.
I’m sure you can think of at least one team you’ve worked on, whether it be for your job or as a volunteer, where there was someone who talked WAY more than they listened. Listening causes you to not dominate a meeting or conversation. Listening causes you to not make decisions in a tunnel/vacuum. Listening causes you to care for peoples hearts (who they are) before their hands (what they can do for you). Great listeners always make great teammates.
(2) Responsiveness (Is this a word?)
A lack of responsiveness non-verbally communicates that you don’t care. When you don’t respond to that email, text, slack/asana task note, or whatever else, it tells the other person you don’t care. When you respond you communicate you care. This may be the simplest thing to do to be a a better teammate, but so many people overlook this easy win.
(3) Celebrating
When someone on the team wins - you win. So celebrate! When a project hasn’t been approved for some time because the budget didn’t meet the needs of those above your team, but this week it gets approved. Celebrate the individual(s) who oversaw the budget and helped get this project approved. Celebrating the wins of the individuals that make up the team will propel the team forward to be successful. Who doesn’t like to be celebrated? A good teammate always looks to celebrate others.
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