This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching, drawn from The Seven Essentials of Great Teams, Proactive Leadership – Empowering Team Leaders, and First Steps to Successful Teams, covers the first three of seven essentials for building great teams. It explains Leadership, Guiding Principles (core covenants), and Pride, and notes that Part 2 covers communication, motivation, persistence, and a positive team first attitude.
Introduction
This article is information from the following books available on our site: The Seven Essentials of Great Teams – Another 1001 Proactive Leadership – Empowering Team Leaders Booklet: First Steps to Successful Teams – Core covenants
The steps to building great teams are consistent and predictable and are an exercise of passion for coaches who love the profession. The essentials for great teams are applicable for sport, business, schools, coaching staffs, and family. Many coaches look at team spirit as an intangible thing that some teams have and others automatically do not. But the truth is, one of the jobs of leadership to teach, promote and build a team first attitude. Coaches need to use every bit of their creative energy to develop team spirit within their players. By understanding and correctly applying all the essentials for team building, a coach can enhance the worth of the team many times over the total sum of its Parts.