I think a "team player" is someone that everyone can count on equally as a group collectively to support that group. They bring thier individual strengths and weaknesses and are equally supported.
poor management cannot effect thier contributions, nor poor attitudes of non-team playing personel. They come to work to contribute and in so doing do "suffer" in a way with the rest of the collective. You suffer some loss of self.
If you're not all "suffering" collectively then certainly you suffer alone, and that sucks.
Being a team player is being more than what you could do on your own, so it would require other personel to be team players as well, or you just have a bunch of people suffering alone, collectively.
A true team player is plural and belongs to a group that also supports thier efforts.
Otherwise, all you've got is a human doormat for management. Trying to get everyone to work collectively within individual limits to the advantage of individual strengths as a team is unfortunately, management's job
As you can all see by the percentages on the above poll, there aren't any choices that were not selected, therefore all the polling questions are valid to someone. That makes criticism of Wildtime's polling questions a little less valid as an insult and a little more valid as actual data themselves!
I thought that was the most interesting thing about it. It's likely then that you work with someone that thinks that way and perhapse thinks that you think that way too. For that reason you should try to understand the motivations behind the votes as the excercise that it was intended to be.
That would make you a team player, wouldn't it?
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momontoy, may I ask you to elaborate on your last comment? What is so god awful about working with a new RN? Where I went to school, we were encouraged to work as a team.
