{"id":1093,"date":"2018-08-06T23:38:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T23:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2018-08-07T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:42:39","slug":"having-a-team-player-mindset-is-not-about-agreeing-with-everything-that-your-colleagues-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/having-a-team-player-mindset-is-not-about-agreeing-with-everything-that-your-colleagues-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a “Team Player” Mindset is Not About Agreeing With Everything That Your Colleagues Suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think the term “team player” has developed a wide range of meanings. There are some who consider that being a “great team player” is about agreeing with – and doing everything in strict accordance with – your peers’ or leader’s expectations. I don’t concur\/ agree with this definition, and think it is fatally-flawed for it reflects a “control” mentality rather than a “management” mentality.<\/span><\/p>\n

For me a “great team player” is a person who is<\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Willing to contribute ideas in a constructive way for the greater good of the organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Willing to constructively challenge ideas and\/ or the status quo, in order to discover new\/ improved ways of achieving a desired outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Willing to compromise in order for a decision to be made and for action to unfold.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Willing to support the final decision made in a democratic forum, despite not necessarily agreeing with that decision either wholly or in part.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be clear, “yes people” – people who agree with everything and sundry that is communicated by others – are mainly concerned with “pleasing” others; and in my experience such people aren’t capable of objectively challenging the status quo in order to discover improved solutions\/ outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the best\/ most effective people I have worked with have been those who have<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

i. Spoken their truthful views, despite peer pressure to conform with commonly-held views.<\/span><\/p>\n

ii. Been open to having their views challenged constructively.<\/span><\/p>\n

iii. Have been able to separate themselves (at a personal level) from making the right decision that is in the best interests of the stakeholders who they represent\/ act for. That is, they have been able to make the best decision possible without their own view forming a personal bias.<\/span><\/p>\n

So as a “team player”, try and be accommodating of others’ views as best you can; yet don’t feel compelled to “agree” with everything that is communicated by your colleagues…and be sure to support the final democratic (majority) decision that is arrived at.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I think the term “team player” has developed a wide range of meanings. There are some who consider that being a “great team player” is about agreeing with – and doing everything in strict accordance with – your peers’ or leader’s expectations. I don’t concur\/ agree with this definition, and think it is fatally-flawed for it reflects a “control” mentality rather than a “management” mentality. For me a “great team player” is a person who is: a) Willing to contribute…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}