How to be a team player, yet standout

How to be a team player, yet standout
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Most leaders speak about team work and being a team leader. It is vital that the leader echo’s the message of team spirit, since the most challenging aspect faced by the leaders is to manage synergy, collaboration and the teams combined liability. 

Most leaders speak about team work and being a team leader. It is vital that the leader echo’s the message of team spirit, since the most challenging aspect faced by the leaders is to manage synergy, collaboration and the teams combined liability.

The foremost responsibility of an accountable team leader is to gauge everyone with an equal set of tunings and limitations by making the entire team function as ‘we’ rather than ‘I’.

Although unreliability and blame game forms the crux of most team dynamics, leaders are comfortable managing teams rather than scrutinizing a singular individual with discrete demands and preferences.

An effective leader is the one who makes a difference by standing out from the lot,

In such a challenging situation scenario, showcasing the traits of an effective team player becomes significant. Some employees find themselves in a fix and are unable to outshine with their flairs and competences in similar tasks and KPI’s

Along with being collective and co-operative team members, you need to display certain qualities to emerge as a star. You need to exhibit traits that help you not only to compete with other stars but will also shine out of the crowd. Below mentioned are guidelines that help you get the shine to be noticeable.

  1. Always look your best: Put your best foot forward by taking out some effort by focusing on your health and fitness goals. A touch of panache in your gestures and attire along with a well-presented persona will surely make you noticeable.
  2. Be expansive and outgoing: The language of management and leadership forms the art of fine communication. Make full utilization of every single opportunity that comes your way. This will brush up your communication skills that will in turn grant you the required elegance, keenness, simplicity and the sentiments to move other people when key instances ascend.
  3. You need to Be resourceful: Be a power house of skills and competences and be aware of where you can get assistance. You must have the ability to make the masses look up to derive a resource.
  4. Be an ingenious problem solver: An effective team player, will learn the act of creatively transforming every problematic situation into an opportunity. Generate all-round view of the problem using resourceful ideas and tackle the situation without overlooking the obvious facts and assumptions.
  5. Endeavor for Brilliance: This type of character trait helps you want to better your best always. It helps you be careful, attentive and restricts you from delivering the unexceptional. It helps you to perform the task well, be coachable and inquisitive rather than having a laidback, fixed and confused attitude.

Work on these meek things, engulfing them into your everyday habits. Direct your efforts in the right direction to make small advances in the way you tackle you everyday encounters.

By: Alina Menon
(The writer is executive coach and performance trainer at
Cdify consultants Pvt. Ltd.)

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