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Adaptable : if you won't change for the team, the team may change you -- Collaborative : working together precedes winning together -- Committed : there are no halfhearted champions -- Communicative : a team is many voices with a single heart -- Competent : if you can't, your team won't -- Dependable : teams go to go-to players -- Disciplined : where there's a will, there's a way -- Enlarging : adding value to teammates is invaluable -- Enthusiastic : your heart is the source of energy for the team -- Intentional : make every action count -- Mission conscious : the (big) picture is coming in loud and clear -- Prepared : preparation can mean the difference between winning and losing -- Relational : if you get along, others will go along -- Self-improving : to improve the team, improve yourself -- Selfless : there is no I in team -- Solution oriented : make a resolution to find the solution -- Tenacious : never, never, never quit.

"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." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0612/2001054676-d.html.