Sean Glaze kicks off a weekly series on becoming a better teammate. A Harvard survey of 60,000 employees found toxic teammates cost companies $12,000 per person per year, while superstars add $5,000 in profit. The first step: think of the best teammate you've had and copy what they do.
¡Hola! I'm Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building, and this is another 2-minute action tip to grow your team by helping you to be a better teammate. Welcome to your first video of the Ten Commandments of Winning Teammates follow-up series. You're going to be receiving one video each week. Same time, same format, and I'm gonna share with you a couple of things that you can do to be a better teammate. I also wanna share 2 or 3 questions that you and your teammates can consider and discuss so that you can all become better teammates and have a far more successful team. So your first action assignment, your first action tip, was to read the book. I hear it's terrific. And as you read the Ten Commandments of Winning Teammates, I hope you think about who it was in your past that was the best teammate that you ever had. See, that's what you want to be for somebody else. You know, there's a Harvard Business School study that found, after surveying over 60,000 employees, that it cost companies over $12,000 a year to have toxic teammates. But that same survey found that those companies enjoyed $5,000 more profit each year when they had superstar teammates. See, it's not technical skill, but attitude and effort, interpersonal skills, that make you and your team successful. Now, these videos are gonna be a whole lot like deodorant. Everybody thinks the person next to them needs it more than they do. But what you do impacts your team, and it's your behavior that's going to influence others to do the same things that are going to make your team more successful.
