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What Is The Difference Between Being on a Team Versus Being a Teammate?
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING ON THE TEAM VS.
BEING A TEAMMATE?
BEING ON THE TEAM: BEING A TEAMMATE:
— benefits your personal goals — benefits the goals and
and ambitions ambitions of your team
— can make you a bystander — teammates intervene in the
lives and actions of their
teammates
— involves personal effort — involves the efforts of every
player
— means doing what is asked — is doing whatever is needed
of you for the team to succeed
— can involve blaming others — involves accepting respons-
and making excuses ibility , accountability, and
ownership of the team’s
problems
— makes you “me-optic”, asking — makes you “we-optic”, asking
what’s in it for me? what’s in it for us?
— means being drawn together — means being drawn together
by common interests by a common mission
— players draw energy from — players draw energy from
emotion a commitment to each other
Adapted from Inside Out Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives– Joe Ehrmann- Simon & Schuster (2011)- pg. 150
