17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants

by John C. Maxwell

Overview

John C. Maxwell breaks down the personal characteristics necessary for becoming an effective team player.

Leadership expert John C. Maxwell follows his bestselling The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork with this powerfully succinct companion book. Stating that great team players are developed from the inside out, Maxwell identifies the seventeen qualities that make up an in-demand team player while outlining how to embody those qualities.

In The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, Maxwell outlines the successes of team players who have been:

• Intentional – making every action count toward a long-term goal
• Relational – focused on others
• Selfless – willing to take a subordinate role for the sake of the team
• Tenacious – hardworking and optimistic in the face of setbacks

This instructional resource shows how these qualities, among many others, impact the team and its success. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players.

The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player is not feel-good platitudes and abstract thinking, but concrete actions designed to improve the value of every team player.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785288817
Publisher:	HarperCollins Leadership
Publication date:	10/11/2006
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	265,750
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.85(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
1	Adaptable: If You Won't Change for the Team, the Team May Change You	1
2	Collaborative: Working Together Precedes Winning Together	10
3	Committed: There Are No Halfhearted Champions	19
4	Communicative: A Team Is Many Voices with a Single Heart	28
5	Competent: If You Can't, Your Team Won't	37
6	Dependable: Teams Go to Go-To Players	46
7	Disciplined: Where There's a Will, There's a Win	55
8	Enlarging: Adding Value to Teammates Is Invaluable	63
9	Enthusiastic: Your Heart Is the Source of Energy for the Team	71
10	Intentional: Make Every Action Count	80
11	Mission Conscious: The (Big) Picture Is Coming in Loud and Clear	89
12	Prepared: Preparation Can Mean the Difference Between Winning and Losing	98
13	Relational: If You Get Along, Others Will Go Along	107
14	Self-Improving: To Improve the Team, Improve Yourself	116
15	Selfless: There Is No I in Team	125
16	Solution Oriented: Make a Resolution to Find the Solution	134
17	Tenacious: Never, Never, Never Quit	141
	Conclusion	150
	Notes	152
	About the Author	156