17 Qualities of a Teamplayer (from John Maxwell)

Qualities of a Teamplayer Notes
(from John Maxwell's book)

These are some of my notes in our discussion last action group with Erik disccussing to us the qualities of a team leader by John Maxwell.

Communicative

- Don't isolate or be inclusive
- settle problems or issues within 24 hours
- be quick- if there is an issue. fix it in a proper way
- follow up important communication in writing
- be candid. speak tactfully

Dependable

- pure motives
- check your motives: is it only for your personal good or for the good of others as well.
- responsibility
- do it. fulfill it.
- sound thinking
- good judgment for the team. do what is right
- consistent contribution
- rain or shine. stay as you are.
- discover what your word's worth
- find someone to hold you accountable

Enlarging

- value your team mates
- your respect makes them feel important.
- know their dreams and nourish it.
- find ways to help others improve their talents and attitudes
- make themselves more valuable.
- you need to be a person of value. You cannot give what you don't have.

- Yel

Dealing with Difficult People

Dealing with Difficult People

Last night, our speaker Bros Flores in Lingkod ng Panginoon- Alabang made a powerful talk tackling the challenge of how to deal with difficult people.

It is easy to love people who are nice to us but how about people who causes us pain. It is easy to feel happy when we see the people whom we love to see. But it is different whenever the person or individual who we irritates us.

Tips:

1. Know the person. Practice empathy. Know where she or he is coming from. From knowing comes understanding. We cannot simply expect everyone to behave the way we want them to act or behave. We cannot change them but we can change the way we resppond to them.

2. Love them. Do not just depend on your capacity to love but from the love that comes from God. Love because it is God who first loved us. How can we also say that we love God if don't know how to love the brothers and sisters whom we can see.

3. Be God's medium to them. We are not Napocor, but we are only Meralco's. The napocor is the source of energy while the Meralco is the transmitter or medium for that energy to light up our homes. Allow God to use you as a vehicle for his love to touch the person who you hate.

4. Be a stepping stone. If you think that you don't have the resources that you need to help the brother or the sister, then let others do the job. Allow them to have an opprotunity to grow in maturity as well. Let those who have the skills needed to do it do the job for you. in other words delegate. Delegate in a loving way

5. Pray. Often than not, we forget to pray. Prayers work!. Let God's grace change the heart of the person whom you are praying. Allow also God's grace to teach you how to forgive and give you the wisdom how to handle this situation.

6. What if you are the difficult person?Then pray to be changed by God. Pray for feedback and ask help from brothers or sisters. Pray for God's love to transform your heart and the humility to accept your being difficult. Then change.

Bros was a former branch leader of Lingkod Alabang. At present, he is a seminarian in the Society of Jesus.

-Yel

Experiencing God in Ormoc

Travelogue

Traveling to a far and new place had always been a source of joy and pleasant surprises to me. What more in the last NLTC where kind and warm smiles greeted us as soon as we stepped down from the plane. By the way I was with Jun V, the former BL of Greenhills who is now married with Mau of Lingkod Makati and Norman from Lingkod San Pablo. We immediately met Father Ramil who fetched us from the airport and drove us to the seminary where we rested a day before we went to Ormoc. The seminary had been our temporary home. It is also here where we first met the bishop, the seminarians and some residents of Tacloban who warmly welcomed us. Finally we went to Ormoc. The trip is itself an adventure as we traversed the zigzag road en route to Ormoc.

Warm smiles greeted us as familiar faces appeared from Ormoc and other Lingkod branches. I was relaxed and immediately felt at home. Soon, after delegates from other provinces started arriving. The service team was very willing to help. They seemed not at all affected nor pressured in assisting the delegates. Truly this is where I found service with a smile in action. There was a system in placed that allowed things to work as smoothly as it should. More than the logistics or the system in placed; I believe that it is their big heart that really made it possible for them to perform the way they did. Truly God is in their hearts and their actions made it even more evident.

The whole NLTC event had been a relaxing and transforming event. It also gave us more time to connect and relate with other brothers and sisters from other branches. I had a great time relating with my buzz group with Macky from Lingkod Mactan and Mike Dayrit of Lingkod Makati.

I also had a chance to have an inter buzz group with other branches. It is a transforming event because it allowed me to have an honest peek of who I am. The meditations, the teachings in the plenary (thanks Jake), the track, the retreat, the masses of the different priests especially of Father Ramil : ) hehehehe , the worship and even the outing, e-night as well as the closing events are hard to forget. Sayang tapos na ang NLTC.

The event had been an awesome experience not only for me and to all of us who were apart of this great event. I will miss the friends I made from different branches. I will definitely miss you guys. Until we meet again.

Yel