Volume III Part 5

themilliondollarathlete
"Bring Out The Greatness Within You"

A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.
—Swahili proverb—

Your Dream Team

So who is on your team? Members can be teammates, parents, coaches, teachers, etc. Once you have your team, you need to build trust to keep it on solid ground but who can you trust?

Remember we said that different isn’t wrong—it’s just being different (TMDA Volume I Part 6). You will find that members on your team aren’t going to agree with everything you say and you need to understand this fact. Don’t confuse this with the need to have a common goal that you want to achieve as a team.

Trust is built on communication and when this goes well there are rarely problems. But when there’s a communication breakdown, team trust is compromised. This breakdown can come from differing priorities and preferences of individual members. As an example, you might want to shoot for the stars and see your team becoming state champions. Others may be happy just with winning the conference championship. You need to all be on the same page.

You also need to be open and honest with your teammates if you want to build trust so lying isn’t even close to being an option. Nothing will put a dagger directly into the heart of trust building more so than lying.

Learn each team member’s behavioral characteristics through the DiSC model we’ve talked so much about. It’s the greatest way to understand how your teammates think and react to situations.

Think of how many times your team has had a communication breakdown and what were the results. The key is to avoid these mishaps altogether and stay focused. The Million Dollar Athlete doesn’t make the same mistake twice.

Good To Great

Wanting to be great isn’t easy and it takes a great deal of work which is what I’m showing you in this blog. You can go from being good to being great, but you need to practice these lessons every day. Start by being a great teammate and others will follow along (TMDA Volume II Part6).

Set the example and show others how it’s done. They’ll start getting the message and once they do there will be no holding them back.

You see your purpose for your team is to become the catalyst that will make it happen.

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Mastering your time.

PS - If you want to succeed, you need to take the DiSC assessment.

Tony Falco
“TheCoach”
www.milliondollarathlete.blogspot.com