Best Team Skills: Fifty Key Skills for

Readers will gain the tools they need to achieve the highest performance through the most productive encouragement and motivational methods available. Dr. Losoncy identifies the 50 skills that will most encourage any team members. Using 100 encouragement opportunity exercises, he works as a personal trainer to reinforce the reader's progress.

Preface

xiii

About the Author

xv

TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK

1

(140)

Is our team a bunch of individuals or an encouraging winning team?

1

(1)

Benefits of becoming an encouraging winning teammate

2

(1)

The seven principles of mutual encouragement to turn individuals into an encouraging winning team

3

(1)

Encouragement: The key to building the best team

4

(2)

The best teams include, rather than exclude, teammates

6

(1)

The best teams cooperate rather than compete with teammates

7

(1)

The best teams have a mutually determined shared focus

8

(2)

The best teams center on what's right with each other

10

(1)

The best teams face difficult realities together

11

(2)

The best teams proceed as if problems have solutions

13

(1)

The best teams emphasize effort, improvement and progress

14

(2)

If the team succeeds, so do you

16

(1)

The best teams believe encouragement is everyone's business

16

(2)

The best teams start with mutual encouragement training

18

(3)

PHASE I---SYNERGY

Focus on Feelings

The Synergy Principle

21

(24)

Invitation skills

23

(2)

Warmth skills

25

(2)

Sensitive-listening skills

27

(2)

Empathic-responding skills

29

(2)

Questioning skills

31

(1)

Personalizing skills

32

(2)

Enthusiasm skills

34

(2)

Agreement skills

36

(1)

Mutuality skills

37

(2)

Positioning skills

39

(2)

Accessibility skills

41

(1)

Sensory-representational skills

42

(3)

The Cooperation Principle

45

(18)

Social-interest skills

47

(2)

Cooperative-listening skills

49

(1)

Credibility skills

50

(2)

Universalizing skills

52

(2)

Genuineness skills

54

(2)

Mutual-reliance skills

56

(2)

Conflict-resolution skills

58

(5)

PHASE II---EXPANDING THE MATRIX OF OUR MINDS

Focus on Thinking

The Focus Principle

63

(14)

Shared-vision skills

65

(2)

Mutual-determinism skills

67

(2)

Anticipation skills

69

(2)

Choosing skills

71

(1)

Self-starting skills

72

(2)

Goal-centering skills

74

(3)

The Respect Principle

77

(14)

Self-encouragement skills

79

(3)

Asset-focusing skills

82

(1)

Liability-into-asset skills

83

(2)

Relating-individual-assets-to-team-goal skills

85

(2)

Respecting skills

87

(2)

Expectation skills

89

(2)

The Reality Principle

91

(18)

Objectivity skills

93

(2)

Acceptance skills

95

(3)

Humor skills

98

(2)

Relabeling skills

100

(2)

Rational-thinking skills

102

(2)

Assertiveness skills

104

(2)

Welcoming-criticism skills

106

(3)

The Optimism Principle

109

(14)

Overcoming-discouraging-belief skills

111

(2)

Certainty skills

113

(2)

Find-a-way skills

115

(1)

Perceptual-alternative skills

116

(2)

Optimistic-explanatory skills

118

(5)

PHASE III---ACTION AND PROGRESS

Focus on Doing

The Progress Principle

123

(18)

Becoming skills

125

(2)

Effort-focusing skills

127

(3)

Spotting-improvement skills

130

(2)

Contribution-recognition skills

132

(2)

Evaluating-action skills

134

(2)

Credit-sharing skills

136

(2)

Celebration skills

138

(3)

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

141

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