Best Team Skills

Fifty Key Skills for Unlimited Team Achievement

Lewis Losoncy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781574440850
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351464321
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Best Team Skills gives you the tools you need to achieve the highest performance through the most productive encouragement and motivational methods available. Dr. Losoncy identifies the 50 skills that will most encourage your team members. Using 100 encouragement opportunity exercises, he works as your personal trainer to reinforce your progress. Just as there are vital technical skills that team members need in their own areas of expertise, there are also consequential team skills that are necessary to build responsible, involved and committed team players. If you want to become a more encouraging team member or help your entire team to become mutual encouragers, Best Team Skills is for you. Written not only for your work team, you can also can also apply Losoncy's techniques to your home or sports team. Presented in an easy-to-read format, each skill is put to use quickly for immediate feedback and success.

Phase II
EXPANDING THE
MATRIX OF
OUR MINDS

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Focus on
Thinking

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Principle 3 THE FOCUS PRINCIPLE

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“Determining Our Destination
Determines Our Destiny”

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Shared-vision skills

Mutual-determinism skills

Anticipation skills

Choosing skills

Self-starting skills

Goal-centering skills

FOCUS SKILLS

USE OF THIS PARTICULAR SKILL	INVITES THESE TEAM THOUGHTS
20. Shared-vision skills	“Our team has a common purpose.”
21. Mutual-determinism skills	“It’s up to us. We have all we need. We have the full commitment from each other.”
22. Anticipation skills	“We are aware of the barriers on our road to success. We will develop a plan to solve the problems up front.”
23. Choosing skills	“Because we are success-focused, we simply make the choices along the way that will lead us closer to our goal.”
24. Self-starting skills	“It’s up to each of us to take responsibility to keep ourselves going.”
25. Goal-centering skills	“We are staying focused on the situation and on the solution that will lead to our goal, not to our own individual egos.”

BEST TEAM SKILL #20—SHARED-VISION SKILLS

Shared-vision skills are the skills to identify, record and commit to mutual goals.

Shared-vision skills include:

1. Identifying a goal or series of goals that the team will achieve.

2. Listing measurable ways that make the team aware of the moment when that goal is achieved.

3. Recording the date or time when the goal will be achieved.

4. Mutually committing to achieving the goal.

Encouragement Opportunity 36—Creating the goal, sharing the vision

What goals will the team achieve?

Encouragement Opportunity 37—Defining the time the goals will be achieved

By what date will the goals be achieved?

Encouragement Opportunity 38

How will we know that the goals have been achieved?

Encouragement Opportunity 39—Making the commitment

Write down the names of the teammates who want to share the vision and make a commitment to achieve the team’s goals by the stated dates.

Key Points on Shared-Vision Skills

1. The only people who ever reach their dreams are those who have them.

2. The team can only achieve the goals that it has. The goals are the reason for the existence of the team.

3. Make a commitment to share the vision together. The team needs everyone!

BEST TEAM SKILL #21—MUTUAL-DETERMINISM SKILLS

Mutual-determinism skills are the skills that take charge of the team’s destiny.

Mutual-determinism skills include:

1. Recognizing that “It’s up to us!”

2. Becoming a self-determined team rather than a luck-determined team.

3. Believing that the team’s choices, rather than chance, affect the team’s destiny.

4. Making choices that are consistent with moving closer to the goal (compassing).

5. Operating based on the conviction that the team has, or can acquire, all it needs to reach the goal.

Encouragement Opportunity 40—Designing our own destiny

Something dawned on your team today, the day of mutual-determinism. Your team is starting to realize that you actually have control over your future and your destiny. You can determine whether or not you reach your goals. You realize that putting a man on the moon or curing polio had to be harder than achieving your team’s goals. Some “determined” team mutually agreed to those goals and achieved its dream. Is it possible that if your team uses mutual-determinism skills, you will realize that you, not luck, determine your future? The answer is yes. Your team’s destiny is either determined by you or by other things.

Build a case to encourage the team to grow from helplessness to mutual-determinism. Make two points which prove that the team controls its destiny.

Key Points on Mutual-Determinism Skills

1. Our future is determ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Other
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Author
• TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
• PHASE I—SYNERGY Focus on Feelings
• PHASE II—EXPANDING THE MATRIX OF OUR MINDS Focus on Thinking
• PHASE III—ACTION AND PROGRESS Focus on Doing
• TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK