Whether you are a team player or a team leader, you have to understand and practice good communication skills. That’s why communication is one of our Four Pillars – without it, the other pillars would crumble. Accountability becomes meaningless if your team can’t communicate their shortcomings and strengths. Leadership isn’t leadership if you’re not able to effectively listen and speak to your team, and teamwork cannot happen where there is poor communication.
When you start to hold yourself accountable for how you perform, the first place you have to start is with your own thoughts. If even one person is making excuses for poor results, your entire team’s ability to deliver excellence is compromised.
It takes an entire team of people working closely together to bring out their best. No prize ever truly goes to a single individual. In that moment of victory, you stand with everyone who helped you along the way. Everyone who held you accountable when you didn’t want to finish, every leader who taught you to lead as you followed, every member of your team.
Underneath good leadership, a team will thrive. Being a good leader is about more than guiding your team to victory, however. It’s about understanding the strengths and weaknesses of every person under your command. More than that, it’s about understanding your own strengths and weaknesses. Without self-awareness and humility, a leader cannot give their best or enable their teammates to do the same.
To achieve anything in life, you need a good team. No amount of independence or skill can stand in place of working with the right people. Teamwork is nothing more than the process of working collaboratively to achieve a common goal.
The season has changed here in the north. Cold weather and absence of light prevail. The ground is white, and save the evergreens, the forests are black. Starkness and darkness. Dread and dreams of warm sun on the face for some. Excitement and adventures on snow and ice for others. Where do you stand? Why should it matter? Focus on the present and what’s before you. Live in the moment and embrace it. Do something new or different now that develops and grows your self-reliance.
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This guest piece written by my good friend Alex Ciurana. Highest kudos to him, as this is an excellent read on the ‘other’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) that permeates our society today.
