How to be an Awesome

Team Player

By: Andrew Kick, Kelsey Drake, Dajana,

David Joseph, and Liliya Abie

CLASS ACTIVITY

Team Player Introduction

Purpose:
Improves

Collaborate and communicate

creativity and decision making

Encourages
Recognizes

ACTIVE work
contribution

What is a Team Player?

Team

player: a person who plays or works

well as a member of a team or group.
Unique talents, individual strengths, and
successful
Common goal
Everyone must contribute to and cooperate
with the team to be successful!

What Does it Take to be an

Effective Team Player?
Demonstrates reliability

Cooperates and
pitches in to help

Communicates
constructively

Exhibits flexibility

Listens actively
Functions as an active
participant
Shares openly and willingly

Shows commitment
to the team
Works as a problem
solver
Supports and
respects others

Revolution of Companies

Googlers share common goals and visions for the

company.

Google has actively invested in employee happiness from

day one.

Revolution of Companies
One
At

team, one dream

Apple our most important resource, our

soul, is our people.-Apple Credo

Case study (Mckinsey

Quarterly)

They did the following wrong:

Confused direction
Ineffective interaction
An inability to renew

Case study (Mckinsey

Quarterly)
How
they could fix these

issues:
Address a number of
initiatives concurrently
Channel the teams discontent
Minimize outside intrusions
Encourage inquiry and
reflection

Case study (Mckinsey

Quarterly)
This will improve performance
by giving:
A common direction
More effective interaction
Active renewal processes

Team Communication and

Technology

Pagers

Email

Cell phone/text message

Skype meetings/interview

Group discussion boards

Virtual Communication in
Teams
TheTelework

Research Networkstates that

there are currently 2.9 million full-time in
the U.S. This is a 61 percent increase since
2005

Successful

teams that arent all in the same

room (Virtual communication)

QUESTIONS
?