Quotes about Team Collaboration

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass.

It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team I love working toward a common goal.

Leadership is not about me. It is all about them.

Giliead stepped up beside Ilias, leaning his hip on the railing. He watched Ander's retreat grimly, saying in a low voice, "He wanted you to ask him first if we could try that cove, instead of just telling the crewman." Ilias snorted. Good warleaders let everyone do their jobs instead of finding excuses to prove they were in charge.

When team members personally create an environment in which they can be proud of their work and work processes, you have made a good start.

In any successful business, everybody has to be part of the sales force.

Take care of the success of those who work with you and they will take care of your success. Honor and respect those who support your success, including the ones who manage you and the ones you manage.

A leader is there to promote a depth of sharing and listening and to keep everyone focused

I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Individuals should be given every incentive possible to work as a team. If the team's throughput is increased by my helping someone else, that's what I should do. Team velocity matters; individual velocity doesn't.

At the end of the day, it would be wise to learn how to cooperate with others; so as not to put yourself first most of the time.

When I die," goes one internet meme, "I want my group project members to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.

Our goals were redundancy and mutual support.

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

Collaboration enables us to pool our resources, to learn from each other, and to collectively solve problems.

No team can communicate successfully without highly developed listening skills among team members. Most experts would agree that listening is the most overlooked and underused component of communication. Although listening comprises about 45 percent of the communication process, we have little or no formal training in this important skill.

Further, we often make the mistake of treating listening as merely waiting for our turn to talk. While other team members are making their points, we're preparing our rebuttal. It takes practice and discipline to withhold the urge to jump in with our opinion and really concentrate on what the other person is saying.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.