#39: 7 Traits of Great Teammates
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Life is far more fulfilling when you're surrounded by great people - by great teammates - and it's better for others when YOU are that teammate. In this episode Dave shares 7 traits to help make you a better teammate. No matter what type of team you're on (sports team, military unit, business team, or more) these traits will help you to become more valuable so that you can help make the team more valuable as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. I want to talk in this episode about |
| 0:17.3 | seven traits of great teammates. Seven traits of great teammates. Now, you may be thinking |
| 0:24.6 | of other teammates, teammates that you have right now. Great. You can use this criteria to |
| 0:30.1 | evaluate them if you like. But first and foremost, it's about helping you and me. They become |
| 0:36.0 | better teammates. Whether you're on a sports team, |
| 0:38.9 | whether you're in the workplace, military unit, it doesn't matter. |
| 0:42.4 | Life is great when you're surrounded by the right people, by the right teammates. |
| 0:46.6 | And life gets really tough when you're surrounded by morons, misfits, moochers, takers, |
| 0:52.0 | whiners, complainers, everything that's the antithesis of the |
| 0:56.0 | game changer and the game changer life. So let's take a look in the mirror here in these seven |
| 1:01.3 | areas and see where we can step up and add more value to make the team more valuable. But first, |
| 1:08.8 | it's time for our quick hit Q&A. You can post your questions, |
| 1:16.0 | by the way, two places. Our Twitter is at Learn to Lead 100, just like it sounds, the number 100, |
| 1:22.3 | or Facebook.com slash the game change your life. Really good question here. It says you always talk about |
| 1:28.7 | attitude as being one of the eight key traits that separate game changers from the other |
| 1:33.3 | performance groups. Can I change a negative person? Can I change someone else's attitude? No, |
| 1:41.3 | you can't. Or you can alter their mood. You can alter their mood based on how you treat them, but attitude is their prevailing way they look at life, and that will always wiggle its way out. |
| 1:52.0 | And you can alter somebody's mood temporarily, attitude always comes back to resurface. |
| 1:57.0 | Now, can someone who's negative change their attitude? |
| 2:00.0 | Yes, they can make better choices. |
| 2:01.6 | They can choose to see life differently. |
| 2:03.6 | But can you change them? |
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