John C. Maxwell, The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants. Thomas Nelson, 2006.
Maxwell, 17 Indisputable Laws of Team Work
Referenced in:
- Ministry Teams
- Leadership Development Through Life Effectiveness
- John Maxwell Leadership Library — Inspiring Leadership
- Empowering Leadership
Brief Intro to Maxwell
John Maxwell is perhaps the most widely-read author on leadership and life-effectiveness today. LifeandLeadership.com cross-lists Maxwell’s writings under different categories:
- Inspiring Leadership — Maxwell is a strong leader in his own right, and equips people to exercise leadership that brings out the best in others.
- Leadership and Life-Effectiveness — In a manner similar to many authors in the success genre, Maxwell presents his insights in terms of what it means to lead a more productive life.
Each of his volumes makes a solid contribution to literature on these subjects, but with so many titles, it is often hard to know where to start. The LifeandLeadership.com Ministry Resource Guide on the John Maxwell Leadership Library may help readers understand the unique value of each of his works, and how each relates to the others.
Observations on 17 Indisputable Qualities of a Team Player
Maxwell presents a character profile of team player:
1. Adaptable: If you won’t change for the team, the team may change you
2.Collaborative: Working together precedes winning together
3.Committed: There are no half-hearted champions
4. Communicative: A team is many voices with a single heart
5. Competent: If you can’t, your team won’t
6.Dependable: Teams go to go-to players
7. Disciplined: Where there’s a will, there’s a win
8. Enlarging: Adding value to teammates is invaluable
9. Enthusiastic: Your heart is the source of energy for the team
10. Intentional: Make every action count
11. Mission conscious: The Big Picture is coming in loud and clear
12. Prepared: Preparation can mean the difference between winning and losing
13. Relational: If you get along, others will go along
14. Self-improving: To improve the team, improve yourself
15. Selfless: There is no “I” in team
16. Solution-oriented: Make a resolution to find the solution
17. Tenacious: Never, never, never quit
From the Publisher
Where can a person go to learn how to become a better team player? Your choices are definitely limited. John C. Maxwell takes the pain out of knowing what makes a team tick. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players. Great team players, like great teams, are formed from the inside out.
The qualities Maxwell teaches quickly take you to the heart of teamwork. Anybody can understand them and apply them — whether at home, on the job, at church, or on the ball field. If you learn the 17 essential qualities of a team player, you can become the kind of person every team wants. If everyone on your team does it, there will be no holding you back.
About the Author
In 1985, John Maxwell founded The INJOY Group, a collection of three distinct companies that employ 200 people and provide resources and services that help people reach their personal and leadership potential. In addition to building a successful organization, John has authored more than thirty books, including the New York Times best sellers The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and Failing Forward.
Called the nation’s foremost expert on leadership, John was born in central Ohio five and a half decades ago. He credits his excellent leadership instincts and his early leadership training to his father, Melvin Maxwell, whom he followed into the ministry. For over twenty-five years, John led churches in Indiana, Ohio, and California.
In 1995, John began dedicating himself full-time to writing, speaking, and consulting. Each year he speaks live to more than 350,000 people. Known as a dynamic communicator, he is in high demand on the topic of leadership, and he speaks to many American corporations and entrepreneurial organizations. He also is a popular speaker for churches, non-profits, sports organizations, and television programs. In addition, he dedicates time each year to teaching leadership internationally.
John has earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees and has also received five honorary doctorates. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife of over thirty years and enjoys spending time with his two grown children and his grandchildren.
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- Ministry Teams – Congregational Ministry Teams
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