The Fourth Element Needed for Thriving as a Most Valuable Team Player

September 20, 2022

The fourth element necessary to more than survive as a Most Valuable Team Player (MVTP) of your team.

This article presents the fourth element necessary to be a Most Valuable Team Player (MVTP) of your team in today’s challenging environment. It asks you to Demonstrate Healthy Team Agreements.

Demonstrate Healthy Team Agreements
All organizations, including small teams, come up with agreements that govern behavior. As organization, customer, vendor, and community needs change, so do the agreements. Jennifer Fondrevay supplies recommendations for developing and proving solid team agreements. She addresses in her chapter on politics.

  • Be known for your steadiness and what you can contribute (to the team and to the customers), p. 186
  • Focus on that make you stronger together as a team.

You are stronger together than you are alone, and as a group, you have a much greater power to lift others up. Help your direct reports leverage their skills and talents, especially as it relates the vision…You will witness a lot of imperfect behavior…. It is especially important keep this in mind when things get hard… As individuals and as employees, we are stronger together than we are alone, even with our imperfections. Page 183 – 6.

Teams sometimes post agreements on a whiteboard, team website, or the like. It can include not contacting Josh until he has had his second cup of coffee. Or common courtesies like when to turn off cell phones and computers.

QUESTIONS

  • What might you do to support your team coming to agreements on how you will work and perform
  • What agreements do you mean to being known for your steadiness?
  • What agreements do you need to bind you together as a team?

Chuck Scharenberg is the Founder of More Profit More Freedom, a consultancy that supports the execution of large-scale growth for small businesses. His practice has successfully grown businesses with processes that identify potential roadblocks and mitigation schemes to accelerate realistic execution.

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