Best Team Skills: Fifty Key Skills for Unlimited Team Achievement

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Features

  • Illustrates the important difference between a bunch of individuals and an encouraging, winning team
  • Emphasizes individual commitment that must rise above self-interest and cliques
  • Places strong focus on team synergy and the fact that "all of us together can do more than each of us alone"
  • Presents a reality-based example of the cooperation principle (cooperating multiplies us, while competing divides us")
  • Centers attention on individual strengths in order to build team strength
  • Focuses upon the need to encourage progress, which leads to praise
  • Supports the concept that determining a team's destination determines its destiny
  • Summary

    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.

    Table of Contents

    Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
    Phase 1-Synergy
    Focus on Feelings
    Principle 1-The Synergy Principle
    "All of Us Together Can Do More Than Each of Us Can Do Alone"
    Principle 2-The Cooperation Principle
    "Competing Divides Us; Cooperating Multiplies Us"
    Phase II-Expanding the Matrix of Our Minds
    Focus on Thinking
    Principle 3-The Focus Principle
    "Determining Our Destination Determines Our Destiny"
    Principle 4-The Respect Principle
    "Centering on Each Other's Strengths Builds Our Force"
    Principle 5-The Reality Principle
    "Accepting 'What Is' Is Our Only Real Starting Point"
    Principle 6-The Optimism Principle
    "Believing Problems Have Solutions Gives Us the Advantage"
    Phase III-Action and Progress
    Focus on Doing
    Principle 7-The Progress Principle
    "Encouraging Progress Precedes Praising Success