From the course: Teamwork Foundations
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Avoid these team behaviors
From the course: Teamwork Foundations
Avoid these team behaviors
- Being a good team player means making allowances for people who want to do things differently to you, but it also means doing what's best for the team, even if you have to get a bit unpopular at times. For example, if one of the others in your team isn't being a team player, then you should challenge them on that. Here are the seven worst team behaviors, which should certainly be challenged if they're noticed by anyone including you. Number one is selfishness, putting oneself before the team to the detriment of the team. This also includes not returning favors, which others in the team have done for you. And this will rapidly lead to breakdown of the team. Second is unreliability, as in not keeping your promises to the others in the team and not doing the things that you've agreed to do for the team. Keeping your promises is important in all of life, but most of all, when the others in your team are relying on you. If you say you'll do something, then you must keep that promise to…
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