Are you looking for a cost-effective way to build camaraderie, boost team connection, and spark innovation and creativity? START A TEAM BOOK CLUB! Needing a starter book? Look no further!
In The Ideal Team Player, Patrick Lencioni argues that the most successful team members share three
essential virtues:
- Humble → They put the team’s success ahead of their own ego and are willing to acknowledge others’ contributions.
- Hungry → They are self-motivated, hardworking, and always looking for ways to improve and contribute.
- Smart → Not necessarily intellectually smart, but people smart. They possess emotional intelligence, communicate effectively, and understand how their actions affect others.
Lencioni presents these concepts through a business fable about a company struggling with culture and teamwork. As leaders work to improve performance, they discover that technical skills alone don’t create great teams. Instead, the best employees consistently demonstrate all three virtues: humility, hunger, and people smarts.
Thinking about starting a book club? Here are some questions to get your team thinking:
- Of the three virtues covered in the book, which comes most naturally to you? Which one can you
grow in? - How do the three virtues of humble, hungry, and smart show up in our team culture?
- What virtue could we strengthen?
- How do these virtues help support our clients, coworkers, and your community?
- Did you highlight a quote? If so, what was it?
- Have you ever worked with someone who was missing one of the three virtues? How did that affect
your team? - What do each of these virtues look like in a healthy way? What about unhealthy?
Happy reading!