Sangeetha! MY#BOOTCAMPER I am asked to email how would you describe your
ability to be a team player uh when confirming for a skype interview
next week tips please let's get this up here all right
team player this is uh i'm going to give you a
multi-use response so if if somebody wants to know
uh an example of when you were a team player
if somebody wants to know an example of when you disagreed with somebody on
your team okay it's a disagreement if somebody
wants to know how did you work toward a common goal
when you had other playmates or other pieces or when you were part of a team
or whatever any variation of this the response i'm
about to give you is the one you need okay now what
do teams do always start with the end in mind right stephen
covey well teammates
work together to achieve a common goal okay so you can describe
any time where you were working with other parties
so my philosophy or my example should include and by the way i have i
have a video out there on how to answer behavioral interview
questions you should you should check that out now
i'm not going to go into all the stuff but it talks about explaining your
philosophy then explaining your process and then
explaining the outcome that occurred it's in my opinion
the best way to answer behavioral interviewing question of which this is
one so the way i am a team player or my
ability to be a team player is because i'm always focusing on the common and
greater goal that the team has and what this
does for me is it allows me to work well with others
because regardless of the varying viewpoints that we have
i always like to work to focus all of us on the common goal so if ever we're
in a situation i want to where i can i can i'm working
with others i want to look at it from whatever
standpoint i am whether i'm the leader or whether i'm part of the team
is are are we assembled correctly is everybody focusing on what they can and
contributing based on their skills are we complimenting each other and then
if we ever and and if we are that's great and that's an
easy way to be a team player but being a great team player and what i
always want you all to share with an employer is
it's great when everybody loves each other right and every and the team is
designed perfectly because the big boss designed
it perfectly right we've got player a b c d none of
it's overlapping everybody's got their their lane that they swim in and they're
all working together well that's easy to be a team player when
when the team was chosen correctly and when everybody is playing to their
strengths when do we run into problems this is
what you want to get into the answer we run into problems when teammates
start disagreeing okay so when people disagree the best
thing a team player can do is to step back
listen to the other party think about is there a
way that based on your viewpoint your opinion
my viewpoint my opinion that we can look at developing a solution developing a
process developing a product serving a customer whatever the goal of
the team is that accommodates for the
input of all parties in alignment with the common goal
okay because what happens is i don't like you
you're irritating me you're not carrying your weight you're this is this is where
we have problems right so i don't focus on that
i try to bring my attention and everybody else's attention
to the common goal and what that does is it helps everybody
focus on what they should be focusing on not
the fact that sanjeeta brought this up and i don't i don't like her opinion
and because she's not nice to me or something like that that this is the
kind of stuff that happens right this is what makes disagreements
this is what makes teams not move with the speed and and
deliverability that they can so i like to focus the team and all its
players on the on the common goal and work our
solutions our efforts our whatever toward that common goal that is the best
answer no one will ever fault you from that and
how many different characteristics did you just work into that response i'm
a team player i'm level headed i'm a great listener
and i allow time for others to share with me
and i share with them and i always make sure that i'm looking
at the big picture so i'm a big picture thinker
i could go on all day about this this is the stuff that people don't do they
don't think about it they're looking for example so the best
story to substantiate that was is let me tell you about a time
when right let me tell you about a time when
i was working on this team and we were working toward this common goal
and we had this issue and i and one of the team members had varying you don't
have to say just get varying viewpoints about how we were going to do this
so we listened to each other we kept focusing on the common goal
and it turns out that we were able to come up with a solution that melded our
two opinions together to have an even better solution that's the ultimate
response that's the ultimate story okay where you had a disagreement
and then you listened and then you combined it for the greater good
there's no better story than that the story where you influence somebody else
to do what you wanted talks about your influencing skills
doesn't talk about your team player skills
right so so that's that's how i would look at that
now you can write that up you could you could replay this all you want you can
take you know my role play and my non role
play mixtures and you can kind of cut and copy and
and and and put it together but i think i think that is the way to go
on team player believe me that's there ain't nobody in the world that
isn't gonna love that okay good luck with that
you