The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player John C. Maxwell Committed, Disciplined,

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The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team PlayerJohn
C. MaxwellCommitted, Disciplined, Dependable
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Committed Or Not Committed?
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Committed Or Not Committed?
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Committed Or Not Committed?
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Commitment

• True commitment is not an emotion its a
  character quality that enables us to reach our
  goals.

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Commitment

• Is Usually Discovered in the Midst of Adversity

Comes as the Result of Choice, Not Conditions
Lasts When Its Based on Values
Does Not Depend on Gifts or Abilities
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How Important Is Commitment to You? When things
get tough do you have a tendency to compromise or
even quit?
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Thoughts About Commitment

• Commitment Usually is Discovered in the Midst of
  Adversity.
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Thoughts About Commitment

• Commitment Does Not Depend on Gifts or Abilities.
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Thoughts About Commitment

• Commitment Comes as the Result of Choice,
• Not Conditions.
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Thoughts About Commitment

• Commitment Lasts When Its Based on Values.
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Tie your commitments to your values
Take a risk
Evaluate your teammates commitment
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Individual Activity

1. List your personal and professional commitments.
2. List your personal and professional core values.
3. Do you have commitments unrelated to your values?
   Reevaluate them.
4. Do you have values that you are not living out?
   Commit yourself to them.

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to
  surrender.

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Commitment Discipline Go Hand-in-Hand

• Discipline is doing what we really dont want to
  do so that you can do what you really want to do.

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To Become the Kind of Players that Teams Want
Disciplined Thinking Disciplined
Emotions Disciplined Actions
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Disciplined Thinking

• We must learn to think
• about the right things

Patients, Core Values, Whats Best for the Team
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Disciplined Emotions

• Master or be mastered
• Do not have to turn off your feelings
• Shouldnt let your feelings prevent you
  from doing what you should or drive you to do
  what you shouldnt

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• Disciplined Actions

Action separates the winners from the losers.
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Strengthen your work habits
Take on a challenge
Tame your tongue
Discipline is doing the right things at the
right time for the right reason.
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• With commitment and discipline, we become
  dependable.

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• Dependability is more than ability.

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• It was as if Id been hanged, cut down, and
  sent to rehab. I felt that I was no longer a
  human being. Then Dana came into my room and
  knelt down to the level of my bed. We made eye
  contact. I said, Maybe this isnt worth it.
  Maybe I should just check out. And she was
  crying, and she said,
• But youre still you, and I love you.
• And that saved my life.
• Christopher Reeve

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• If all the people who are around to help me
  were mad at me or in a lousy mood or whatever,
  and they went away, he observes, Thered be
  nothing I could do about it. Absolutely
  nothingIt all comes down to goodwill. Nobody
  has to do any of those things Im completely
  dependent on them.
• Christopher Reeve

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The Essence of Dependability
Pure Motives Dont put whats best for you and
your agenda ahead of whats best for
the team
Responsibility Possess the desire to do the
things that you are capable of doing
Sound Thinking See the BIG picture look
beyond your job title
Consistent Contribution No matter how tired,
distracted, or overwhelmed we are,
we must follow through
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To Improve Your Dependability Check Your Motives

• If you havent committed goals to paper before,
• stop and do it before reading any farther.

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Record Your Goals

• List your goals
• How many of them benefit the team youre part of
  your family, Mortenson Family Dental, your team
  members, your patients?
• How many benefit only you personally?

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To Improve Your Dependability Discover What Your
Word is Worth

• Ask five team mates
• On a scale of 1-10, when I say that I intend to
  do something, how reliable am I?

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To Improve Your Dependability Find Someone to
Hold You Accountable

• Goals without accountability are just good
  intentions.

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• Who on our team shows the traits of committed,
  disciplined, or dependable?
• How is that person
• an example to you?