Uses and Tips For Use of Contributing To Your Team's Health Helpcard While written for the individual team member, this valuable team related content can be used for team development and team building, as a starting point for discussions of what is important in the group. While the material is fairly basic, it's meant to be used to provoke thought about effective teams and what it means to give rather than receive in a team setting. Team leaders, managers and supervisors can use this material to introduce the concept of responsibility and personal obligations as they relate to group functioning. Useful as handouts for short team building discussions. Trainers, group facilitators, consultants involved team building and development may want to use this to stimulate thought and discussion, or to move team members into a more collective mode of thinking that focuses on personal responsibility. A great takeaway for team building events. Deep discounts for the purchase of multiple copies make this an ideal purchase to share with managers, or learning group members.

How To Contribute To Your Own Team's Health Helpcard

Do you want to be part of a better team? It all starts with you!

Ask not what your team can do for you, but ask what you can do for your team, and team magic happens.

If you wait to be part of a better team, chances are you'll wait forever. If you are unhappy with how your team functions, then the only way it's going to get better is for YOU to start being a better teammate.

You can create the team you want through your own behavior, even if you are not a "leader". Be the teammate you want to have.

Remember that our own attitudes, words and actions are really the only things that are directly under our control. It's not possible to improve teams by trying to force others to do things differently. How To Contribute To Your Own Team's Health Helpcard is an excellent starting point to:

• Reassess how you, personally, can be a super-contributor to your team's success.
• Begin the process of discussing how a team can apply the techniques on this card -- ideal if each team members has a copy of the card (our licensing program allows you to save up to 75% on multiple copies.
• Help other teams develop more effectively, if you are a team leader, manager or human resources professional.

Content

How To Contribute To Your Own Team's Health Helpcard provides twenty four critical tips on how each person can contribute optimally to the productivity and effectiveness of the team. In addition it contains ten characteristics of effective teams.

Ideal for individual team-members, team leaders and those involved in team building..

What's included?

• Ten characteristics of effective teams
• How YOU can contribute
• Creating blame avoidance
• Taking on personal responsibility
• Communication for effective teams
• Handling workload issues
• Constructive behavior in meetings
• Client relations issues.

Group leaders, managers, supervisors: Get a copy for each of the members of your team or department. Use them to create team guidelines and norms. Also a great take-away for team building activities.