The Ideal Team Player

THE IDEAL TEAM PLAYER: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues

by Patrick Lencioni

Great teams are essential for organizational success.  Great teamwork is built on 5 sets of critical behaviors: building trust, mastering conflict, achieving commitment, embracing accountability, and focusing on results.  Ideal team players possess 3 key virtues that make it easier for them to embrace the 5 behaviors. In this book, Patrick Lencioni explains how to identify and cultivate these 3 essential virtues of an ideal team player.

In this summary, you’ll learn:
• The 3 virtues of an ideal team player, the common behavioral traits and signs of lack;
• The potential issues that may arise when 1 or more of the virtues are missing, and how you can address such gaps; and
• How to apply this model to hiring, assessing and developing your team members, and how to to embed the virtues into your organizational culture.

Who should read this:
• Business leaders, managers, executives and HR managers
• Anyone working in a team or responsible for leading a team.