Milwaukee Bucks 101: Can Your Team Unlock Their Best Champion Tips?

Milwaukee Bucks 101: Can Your Team Unlock Their Best Champion Tips?

Wouldn’t we all like to offer the bling of an NBA Championship ring and overwhelming pride to our professional dream teams?

If you have ever worked with a winning team, you know how amazing life feels when you and your colleagues are in sync and striving for a shared goal. 

Seeing the Bucks seal the deal and hearing the wise words of a young MVP like Giannis Antetokounmpo is an inspiration to us all. 

As The Guardian reporter Oliver Connolly wrote, “In Giannis, the band has its perfect frontman. He is a charming, hardest-worker-in-the-room kind of star, with the charisma and back story to go with it. “I hope I can give people around the world hope it can be done,” Antetokounmpo said after claiming the title. “My mom was selling stuff in the street, and now I’m sitting here at the top of the top. If I never sit at this table again, I’ll be fine with it.”

Amazingly humble but we all know Giannis has extreme hustle. After this celebration is done, he’s going to be doing everything in his power to be back at that table again. 

So who is the Giannis on your team? The high-performer that brings has that special ingredient called charisma. You know the one that gets people excited and seems to move mountains for your bottom-line. And how do you create more Giannises? Is that word? :)

Your CharismaQ Championship Tips:

  1. Believe and expect greatness from yourself and the others on your team.
  2. Winning is a daily activity. 
  3. Excitement is contagious. Be excited. 

Too often, our daily grind gets us down. We get frustrated and irritated by people and situations. Winners are masters in shifting their mindset and learning how to see the greatness in others. Honor the greatness in the other good humans around you.

Winning the championship doesn’t happen on game day. Winning happens with discipline and focus - every single day. The times you didn’t want to do the work but you did it anyway because you believe in the greater goal.  

Your smile, your expressions, your excitement are contagious. You have the power to change the way someone is feeling. Your positive energy in the room counts. 

Your sales and customer-facing teams are much like a professional sports team. The revenue they bring in supports seven to fifteen other employees in your organization. There’s a difference between selling and winning. A sale is about a transaction. When your team is winning, more fans/customers jump on board and you can feel the momentum. 

At CharismaQ, our customers learn how to attract, engage, motivate, and influence people. And we want to thank our hometown Milwaukee Bucks for being a shining example of true champions. 

Join the shout-out conversation! Who in your network shows up with a winning attitude every single day? Tag them below.

Every member of my team brings a special gift to the table: Tonya Cothern, CIC, Beth Roe, AU, and Tammy Spearnock.

Our team MVP is Julie Caan! She brings positivity every day and lifts up our earned media team at BVK. Her attitude of gratitude is contagious! 🏆

Other than my wonderful business partner and author of this article, many of my former Montage colleagues had a winning attitude. A special shout out to Chasity Jensen Martine Schumacher and Kurt Heikkinen for being "in it to win it" every single day.

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