You know when I first started going to work, the one thing that took me a little time to
get used to, is working with diverse people. because you know back when I was in college
and university I used to hang out with my friends I had a choice who to hang out with
I had a choice who not to interact with and then suddenly I was at this work place where
in I had no option I had to work and I had to work well with the entire team. And that's
when I realize if you want to be successful at work you need to learn how to be the best
team mate. That's right. Everyone loves a team player in their team and today we are
gonna talk about how you can become the best team mate at work.
Very warm welcome to this video my name is of course is Rima and you know what the first
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The first point I have for is the most difficult to execute but, if you wanna be the best team
mate, learn to respect. Respect yourself and respect the other person. Now when I say respect.
I am not asking you to start greeting people and shaking hands with them, not that kind
of respect. Start respecting everybody else's work, your own work, everyone's role in the
office and your role in the office. It's very very important, to respect people and their
work, once you do that people start trusting you, you will start trusting people and that
will lead to the formation of a good bond. And there is no team in the world that can
function without a good bond. You know in the olden days there used to be stories where
Kings who were the dictators and authoritative figures would take their troops, their army
to war and out of fear their soldiers would actually fight hard in the war. But there
were Kings who were like good rulers they were kind and they respected their army so
their army would actually lay down their lives for their leader because they loved and respected
their leader. So do you realize how important it is to respect people, and you know the
key to respecting people, the key to respecting people is to respect yourself. When you truly
respect your own life, and your own work, you will start behaving in a respectful manner
with others and respect their work equally. So you this one's a real toughly and it's
gonna talk you all a lot of efforts, but you go to do this if you want to be the best team
mate at work, Learn to respect.
Going back to the time when I was very new at work, I would always want some sort of
validation of appreciation from outside. It could be my colleagues, it could be my bosses,
it could be someone else at work, I just wanted to hear that I was doing good work and that's
quite a natural tendency you know, a lot of us want appreciation. So if you want to be
the best team mate, that there is, please learn to appreciate. That's right. So when
I say appreciate it means you could personally appreciate a person you could keep appreciating
their work and I am not saying that appreciating a team member or a co-worker you are actually
telling that person, You are the best, you don’t need to try any harder. It basically
means that the task that you've done so far is worthy of appreciation, is worthy of praise,
which is why we are giving you the praise it's due. But in that sense we are also encouraging
people to better for the next time. So if you keep the spirit of appreciation in your
team, you will realize that everyone is learning to respect to appreciate each other even more.
This thing will actually grow to be the culture of your team and will actually be something
that makes your team really strong. So one really cool thing that we would do back in
our office in our team is, we would actually have this beginning of the week appreciation
session wherein we would meet for about five to seven minutes and openly in an open forum
really appreciate the task that people have done in the past week. We will appreciate
each other and we would really encourage each other to do better and it felt like such a
beautiful team bonding that is something that I never forgotten. So well if you want to
be the best team mate learn to appreciate and teach others to appreciate, because wherever
there is positivity, there is always growth and productivity.
One more thing that I wanna tell you, if you wanna become the best team mate that there
ever was, is that you need to recognize that everyone is unique and has a unique purpose.
Now in our team, every person has a unique role and a unique purpose. We all know that.
People come from different educational backgrounds, from different economic set-ups, from different
sets of tradition. So it’s almost like an amalgamation or a melting pot of cultures
and people. And sometimes it becomes very difficult to run a team, especially you are
the team manager, it becomes very difficult to bring everyone in the same page in terms
of their thought process and work process. Now what you can do is, you can first and
foremost recognize that people don't need to be clones of each other in your team, because
that will lead to the down fall of the team. Everyone is unique, has a unique purpose and
serves a unique purpose, so all you need to do is let people be unique and let them fulfill
their unique roles. For example, if you are driving a car, every part of the car has a
unique purpose and a unique role to play. You can expect all the parts of the car to
be the same, similarly with people you can’t expect everyone to be a problem solver, you
can’t expect everyone to be a performer, everyone's gonna have their unique approach,
they're gonna bring something different to the table, and that's gonna make your team
interesting and it's gonna give your team so much more personality. So instead of trying
to get everyone to behave dress and think in the same manner, let people be unique and
recognize their unique purpose, that way you will end up becoming the best team mate or
the best team manager.
Another really important thing in order to become the best team mate is to learn how
to give & receive feedback, constructive feedback. Now let me explain the difference between
constructive and destructive feedback. Constructive feedback starts with a little bit of appreciation
and then focuses on the areas of improvements. Destructive feedback often come from the place
of anger, ego and is aimed at putting the other person down. Now if I ask you which
of these feedbacks is gonna help your team grow? I know you are gonna say constructive
because that is the correct answer. So as a team player, team mate it's very important
for you to learn, how to give feedback, constructive feedback and how to receive constructive feedback.
Because feedback can never be in one direction. It has to flow in both directions. It has
to be to and fro. So you have to share your prospective and be willing to accept somebody
else's opinion or prospective. Most teams actually end up crumbling and facing a lot
of problems, when the people in the team are unable to give and receive constructive feedback.
So I really feel that if you wanna really strengthen this area or this aspect of your
team, you should actually indulge in offering trainings to your team on how one can give
and receive constructive feedback. Because feedback opens the channel to honest communication
and honest communication can always go a long way and make your team way more productive
than it already is. So make sure that you know how to deliver constructive feedback
and if someone is giving you some sort of feedback, you know how to take it without
making it really personal, without making it about your ego and using all of these feedbacks
to make your team better. And that's when you will be the best team mate that there is
Now we've already spoken about how each person has a unique role and a purpose in your team,
it could also be that each person has unique strengths and unique weaknesses in your team.
Now when you know someone's strengths it's very easy to use them to better your team
but what you do with the weaknesses? Now make sure, if you want to build a solid team, and
be a solid, amazing team mate, make sure you don't leave behind the person who has certain
weaknesses. If you know the weaknesses of each person in your team, now make sure that
all of you working in a united fashion to overcome and better these weaknesses. Because
in the long run, even if you show a slight improvement in each person's weakness that
will make your team stronger but if you leave the weaknesses as is, you will end up hampering
the personal growth of your team and that will lead to weak team. So make sure you are
not leaving any of those weaknesses behind you are advancing with the strengths and working
to better the weaknesses and this will make you a great team player, a great team manager
and all in all you will have a great team.
Another thing you wanna do if you wanna be the best team mate that there is, is led by
example. I know it's a tough one. It's not so easy to execute but if you can lead by
example, you could end up changing and bettering the entire culture of your team. Now when
I say lead by example, I mean you can demonstrate the most ideal team behavior that there is.
Which means you know, punctuality, compassion, mutual understanding, respect, politeness,
patience, efficiency, productivity and the list goes on and on and on, but even if you
can take some few core qualities and work hard at demonstrating them and work hard at
actually actualizing them, a lot of people around you especially your team will start
looking up to you, start getting inspired and will start emulating you and that way
you will end up changing the culture of your team at the core level and in no time your
entire team will have these principles of punctuality, mutual respect, understanding,
compassion, patience and whatever required in their forte and that will lead to a fantastic
team and team culture.
So well those were my suggestions in order to make your team amazing and for you to be
the best team mate that there is. I really hope you've enjoyed this video. It's time
for me Rima take your leave. I'm gonna come back very soon with yet another video till
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