Effectively Work as a Team - Angela Hooper-Menifield

Angela Hooper-Menifield "The Business Side of People"

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Introduction
Welcome to Episode P4.06.3 in the People lane. Today we are going to discuss how to ‘Effectively Work as a Team’ on “The People Side of Business” with your host, Angela Hooper-Menifield.  We’ve all heard the saying, ‘teamwork makes the dream work’ and while perhaps cliché; it’s true to some extent.  But it doesn’t just stop at being or having a team; one wants and needs an effective, successful and thriving team.  As such, we will discuss what that looks like on today’s show.

Show Objectives

1. Awareness: You must know yourself to grow yourself & your team. 
2. Authentic: If you fake it, you’ll be found out. Be real as you deal with self & others
3. Accountable: Be accountable for who you are & what you do. It will be replicated
4. Attitude: ‘Rotten attitudes can ruin a team’. 5 sub points on Attitude

• Attitudes have the power to lift up or tear down a team. 
• An attitude compounds when exposed to others. 
• Bad attitudes compound faster than good ones. 
• Attitudes are subjective. So, identifying a wrong one can be difficult. 
• Rotten attitudes, left alone, ruin everything. 

1. Action: Everything begins with our actions
2. Advancement: To advance the plan, compliment the man/woman. 

Average is not acceptable, Awesome is attainable! 

Awareness + Authenticity + Accountability + Attitude + Action = Advancement of team

Key Issues
Everyone needs to bring their A-Game in order to be an A-Team. 

What You Need to Do

1. Awareness: You have to know yourself to grow yourself. The same is true of your team members. Know your team to grow your team. 
2. Authentic: If you are fake, you will be found out. You can con a con, but you can’t kid a kid, or a teammate. A true leader doesn’t lead by a position or a title. A true leader leads from who he is on the inside. Be as real as you can be in dealing with yourself & with others. 
3. Accountable: Be accountable for what you do and for who you are. Accountability helps a person see their blind spots and avoid bad decisions/choices.  Know what needs improvement in order to grow. You’re the sum total of the 5 people you’re around the most. Hopefully, the people you have around you are positive and headed towards better every day. Your inner circle really does determine your level of effectiveness and growth. If you aren’t growing it might be because you are not being held accountable and/or responsible for things that will help you and your team in the long run. When accountability and responsibility are missing, chaos raises its ugly head. 
4. Attitude: Your attitude inflates or deflates those around you. “Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team’s success, but bad attitudes guarantee its failure.” 

1. Attitudes have the power to lift up or tear down a team: The only equation in this case that works is Great Talent + Good Attitudes = Great Team. 
2. An attitude compounds when exposed to others: “When a team member displays a strong work ethic and begins to have a positive impact, others imitate him.” How true is that? People do what people see. 
3. Bad attitudes compound faster than good ones: 
4. Attitudes are subjective, so identifying a wrong one can be difficult: “People always project on the outside how they feel on the inside.” Here are some things to look for - An inability to admit wrongdoing; Failing to forgive (unforgiveness among team members will surely hurt the team); Petty jealousy (Each of us is created uniquely and performs differently, and as a result, we should be treated as such); The Disease of ME is a big one! If we believe it’s all about us, it will be the death of us. It’s not ME, it’s WE; A Critical Spirit always points out what is wrong and never points out what is going right, which diminishes the value of the team; A desire to hog all the credit (Remember, all of our efforts made the win possible, not just yours). 
5.  Rotten Attitudes, left alone, ruin everything: If a bad apple is left in the basket of good apples, sooner than later the good apples will turn bad. A leader of a team can’t let a bad attitude go unaddressed. “If you care about your team and you’re committed to helping all of the players, you can’t ignore a bad attitude. If you do, you will find out the hard way about the Law of the Bad Apple” (John Maxwell). 

5. Action: Everything worth anything will require ACTION. Whatever needs to get don’t won’t if we just stand around wondering who is going to do it. Take initiative and DO IT. Think of ACTION as a scene for a movie being filmed. If the actors were really good, after one take everybody could go home. But, nobody is that good. After each take, the scene is reviewed, reflected upon, re-adjusted and everybody resets to film the exact same scene, only a little better the second, third and fourth time and so forth. We get re-do’s every day. Make it your goal to be a little better today than you were yesterday for yourself and your team. 
6. Advancement: The process of developing and promoting a cause or plan. Always do what is necessary and helpful to develop and improve your team. Once momentum is created, you can keep moving forward. 

Closing Thought: A team that is growing and bringing their A-Game every day to be a part of the A-Team is going places. 



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