Nurturing Team Players: Listening, Learning, and Working Together

A team player is cooperative, interested in helping others, and able to subdue his own ego for the good of the organization. He understands the value of sharing and places greater importance on the good of the group and the benefit of others than on his own selfish interests. Successful businesses all over the world have learned the value of instilling a team philosophy among their employees. A positive attitude toward helping the team includes an ability to focus on doing what is required to get the job done, focusing on process, focusing on the steps to succeed, and a relentless pursuit of doing the right thing and not focusing on one's own feelings, the views of others, and the concern with image. This chapter presents a case study on a comparison of traders and focuses on the importance of communication.