Team Member Styles • 1. Team Member Styles:What notes are you playing? Dianne Rees (based on the work of Glenn Parker in Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration) • Do you know these people? Are they on your team? Mmd modeli kaneki ken. Communicator collaboratorcontributor challenger • contributor Strengths I think we really need to focushigh standards Less productive when organized There’s too much information.authoritative I may not see the big picture. I’m pushing my team mates too hard. Responsible I’m too much of a perfectionist • collaborator Strengths So here’s the big picture.

Goal-directedforward-looking Less productive when I’ve overcommitted! Imaginative My focus is too global. Risunki po tochkam s koordinatami. Flexible I haven’t reviewed the mission. I don’t think about the needs of other team pitches in members • communicatorStrengths What do you all think?considerate relaxed Less productive when I won’t challenge you— I want us to get along!enthusiastic I’m all about the process—goals may slip.supportive I may overuse humor.

Parker Team Player Survey. By Xicom in 1991. Team Players and Teamwork. Was fi rst published, I did not anticipate how popular this view of team players would become. In the intervening years, it has been translated into a number of languages and used by organizations around the world, and it has sold more than one million. The newly designed Parker Team Player Survey (PTPS) is an easy-to-use self-assessment exercise that helps individuals identify their primary team player.

I may seem manipulative or placating. Tactful • challengerStrengths Why are we doing this? Honest outspoken Less productive when I don’t know when to back off. Thorough I may push the team to take too many risks.questioning I can be self-righteous I become too much of a nit-picker.adventurous • It takes all four of these people to make a good team communicator collaboratorcontributor challenger • But people are complex communicator collaboratorcontributor challenger • You may have more than one style communicator collaboratorcontributor challenger • The adaptable team member Optimize your strengths and minimize the traits that make you less productive • The adaptable team member Like how someone else works with others? Borrow their behaviors!

• It takes different instruments to make a great band!See diversity as the thing that makes your team shine • Reference:Parker, G. Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies forDeveloping Successful Collaboration. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.

As a consultant for more than 30 years, Glenn Parker has helped create high-performing teams at hundreds of organizations including Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Philips-Van Heusen, Telcordia Technologies, BOC Gases, and the U. He is a internationally recognized workshop facilitator, organizational consultant and conference speaker in the area of teamwork and team meetings. Glenn has drawn upon his experience in the field to author some 16 books including several best-sellers such as Team Players and Teamwork, Rewarding Teams: Lessons from the Trenches and Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies and other Strangers; widely used instruments such as the Parker Team Player Survey and manuals for practitioners such as 50 Activities for Team Building and Team Depot: A Warehouse of 585 Tools to Reassess, Rejuvenate and Rehabilitate Your Team. His seminal work on team player styles was featured in the best-selling CRM video, Team Building II: What Makes A Good Team Player?