While these conversations may sometimes be more natural in a private setting, leaders could also incorporate them into team activities during company events to help build trust. Julie Kantor, PhD, JP Kantor ConsultingĮmployees might consider asking their peers for candid feedback on their strengths and weaknesses, as well as how they could become a better teammate. You will get more done, and people will be more drawn to work with you. Do they prefer emails to calls? Do they want to chit-chat before meetings? Do they need to discuss something before making a decision? If your answers are different, consider flexing to their preferred work style. Kimberly Roush, All-Star Executive Coachingĭon’t assume that others work and interact they way you do. Stay away from judging things as good or bad, right or wrong - simply acknowledge they are different and move forward. Acknowledge people rather than gossiping. Give energy rather than draining people's energy. Positivity allows for creativity and innovation. Teams, clients and co-workers seem to like me because I literally get my hands dirty. To this day, I volunteer to do the dirty jobs. But here's what I found out: She was teaching. I didn't like her at first for making an example of me. First, she made me do all the bathroom cleaning, scrubbing the crevices of the floors with a toothbrush.
Tonya Echols, Thrive Coaching Solutions Nothing builds trust and connection like helping someone out of a challenging situation, especially when it is done freely and without expectation of repayment or owing anyone a favor. Share those gifts freely what will take you five minutes to complete may save a fellow team member a whole day's worth of work and frustration. You have strengths and skills that come naturally. Kristy McCann, GoCoachįorbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches. Engaging with best intentions helps enlighten gap areas and strengthen relationships, which is core to every company, relationship and the future. This means looking at the whole self of the individual and all the things they are bringing to the team. Regardless of your role in the workplace, one thing that helps to enhance camaraderie, communication and collaboration is engaging with best intentions. David Smith, David Smith Career Coaching Consider whether it is time for you to use your "followership" rather than "leadership" skills. Teams made of up of "alpha" types don't function well. The aptitudes and attitude needed to work in a team are often assumed to be within everyone's wheelhouse. So, make yourself a "reward" to your co-workers by treating everyone fairly and respectfully, relating to them, seeking them for ideas and offering them your values. When we see dangers, we have negative emotions that tell us to stay away. Carolina Caro, Carolina CaroĪccording to neuroscience, when our brain signals rewards in front of us, we have positive emotions, so we listen, understand, collaborate, solve problems, etc. If you spend your time cultivating the genius in others rather than needing to be the genius, people will naturally gravitate toward you because you will inspire and empower them to realize their potential. Yet this shift in mindset to focus outward is the skill that most leaders need to be better team players. Most of us have been trained to focus on our success rather than to help others succeed. If you listen well, the path to becoming a better co-worker and team player reveals itself. Listening, and the requisite patience to do it well, is becoming a lost art. One of the most powerful gifts we can give to another human being is to truly see them - and the best way to do this is to listen to them.
Sometimes we focus too much on what actions we should take rather than how we make people feel. Tracey Grove, Pure Symmetry Coaching and Consulting Focusing on shared interests rather than individual positions harnesses our personal power to retain focus on the goal. We rely heavily on relationships to get things done. Team members who balance long-term interests of key parties and setting a strategy for achieving this vision, while being aware of competing internal and external forces, will build credibility, reputation and personal power. Even better: Those who help you get a positive dose of oxytocin that makes them feel great too.- Erin Urban, UPPSolutions, LLC By opening up to your colleagues, you can be more authentic, more approachable and benefit from their wisdom. However, allowing others to help you is just as important. One of the biggest pitfalls many achieving professionals fall into is a need to have all of the answers.
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