Qualities of a Team Player - ENLARGING

We are continuing to learn and grow in 2014 by developing teamwork skills utilizing the lessons contained in John C. Maxwell’s book titled The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player. This book carries the subtitle “Becoming the kind of person every team wants”. Developing a better team always begins with the individuals. To improve the team, improve the individuals on the team.

Quality #8: Enlarging - adding value to teammates is invaluable.

(c) Stuart Miles

"Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be." - John Gardiner

"The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play." - Bill Russell

"No man is more cheated than the selfish man." - Henry Ward Beecher

Players who enlarge their teammates have several things in common:

1. Enlargers value their teammates
   1. People's performances usually reflect the expectations of those they respect.
   2. If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.
2. Enlargers value what their teammates value
   1. Players who enlarge others do more than value their fellow team members; they understand what their teammates value.
3. Enlargers add value to their teammates
   1. An enlarger looks for the gifts, talents, and uniqueness in other people, and then helps them to increase those abilities for their benefit and for that of the entire team.
   2. But remember this: encourage and motivate people out of their comfort zone, but never out of their gift zone.
4. Enlargers make themselves more valuable
   1. You cannot give what you do not have.
   2. If you want to increase the ability of a teammate, make yourself better.

To improve your ability to enlarge others:

• Believe in others before they believe in you
• Serve others before they serve you
• Add value to others before they add value to you

Donald G Rosenbarger
Senior Vice President
Delta Companies Inc