Riding with the Posse

1. 15 Ways to Be A Successful Sidekick Dana Thorp Patterson Ozarks Technical Community College Riding with the Posse

2. Today’s Agenda • Values, Goals & Expectations • Not a Gripe Session - A Solution Session • 15 Qualities of Being a Good Sidekick (aka team player) • Kemo Sabe

3. 15 Qualities & Traits • Not exhaustive • Self Improvement • Staff meetings • Build these into your job descriptions for new hires (staff and instructors) • Add to the list – ask your team to help define and list more qualities

4. 1. Adaptability • Flexible, Open, Creative • Obstinate, Stubborn, Insubordinate even • If you won’t change for the team, the team may change you. • Inflexible people don’t mix well with others.

5. 2. Collaborative • Working together PRECEDES winning together. • Great challenges = pressure • Cooperation increases strength to reach COMMON goals • Synergy develops • The sum of quality team work is greater than the parts.

6. 3.Commitment • There are NO half-hearted champions. • Commitment will sustain your group even in the midst of adversity. • Difficulty will weed out the merely ‘interested’ from those who truly have devotion to a cause • Is it OK to not be committed to a project and if so, when and how?

7. 4. Communication • A team is many voices with a single heart. • HLC review for example • 3 year project – talk about commitment! • Steering Committee of 28-30 & subcommittees of 15 each • Writing a living document, each subcommittee drafts their part • Putting it all together in one voice • Everyone needs the SAME information • Do not fear conflict - natural

8. 5. Competency • If you can’t, your team won’t. • High standards • Work with excellence • Settle for nothing but the best • Don’t try to do everything – really identify what needs to be done – are there parts that should be done by subcommittees? • Difference between generating an idea and executing the outcome

9. 6. Dependability • Teams go to their go-to people (ever noticed that this happens with bosses and subordinates?) • Willing to take responsibility • Exercise good judgment that allows one to carry out their duties • Caution – don’t overload your ‘go-to’ people • What do you do with your ‘don’t go-to’ people • Rewarding poor performance?

10. 7. Enlarging • Adding value to teammates is invaluable. • Performance reflects the expectations of those whom we respect. • Enlargers believe the best of their teammates and inspire them to reach potential. • Have you experienced this? • Have you provided this?

11. 8.Enthusiastic • Your heart is a source of energy for the team. • Take responsibility for your mood and energy. • Energy vampires? • Act and speak positively – of your team, your project, your activities • What brings you the most joy in your job?

12. 9. Intentional • The power of intent – and leading a purposeful life • Put into action your intentions • Make every action count • Intentional teams work purposefully • Investment of time, energy and resources • High return outcomes!

13. 10. Mission Conscious • Know your mission – your department, your institution’s • The BIG picture should be coming in loud and clear • Provides direction and clarity to a team • Align your projects or department guidelines and activities to your institutions big picture mission • Example of CE program • Red headed step child or part of the college team?

14. 11. Prepared • Preparation can mean the difference between winning and losing • Each member of your team should be prepared for their personal responsibilities at each meeting, for each deadline and overall goal • Courage has no greater fear than preparation • Fear has no greater enemy than preparation • Vacations for example • Examples of lack of preparedness?

15. 12. Self-Growth & Self-Improving • To improve your team, you must improve yourself • Professional development • 360 Degree leadership • Push each other – encourage, lift up and assist • Dead weight? • What improvements have you made this year?

16. 13. Tenacious • Never, never, never quit • If you give 100% effort, the team will succeed • Don’t allow hard times, situations, challenges to stop/deter you • How does it feel when you’ve done something you’ve never done (and it was hard/challenging) and you completed it? • How does it feel when you quit or give up?

17. 14. Solution Oriented • Make a resolution to find the solution • Problems either hurt you or help you • Depending on how you approach them, your team will either learn new things and overcome, or stop you in your tracks • A valuable team player does not shrink to challenges • RISE to the occasion!

18. 15. Selfless • There is no ‘I’ in TEAM. • Value independence and accomplishment • Add in innovation, hard work, convictions, and a TEAM and you have a winning combination • Great teams embrace inter-dependence • Each member has a valuable role and that provides self-confidence, worthiness and real joy in each accomplishment – individual and by the team! • How have you shared your resources this year?

19. The Lone Ranger & Tonto • Teams can be as small as two people or as large as a complete institution or cause • How many times did Tonto come to the LR’s rescue and vice versa? • Kemo Sabe • Ke Mo Sah Bee (Northern Michigan) • Soggy Shrub • Faithful Friend • It is assumed that Kemo Sabe is how the Ranger referred to Tonto. However, in many of the early radio broadcasts, the Ranger calls Tonto Kemo Sabe AND Tonto also calls the Ranger Kemo Sabe.

20. Finally… • More reading on this: • John Maxwell 360 Degree Leader • John Maxwell 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player • Harry Paul Revved, Fish! • Wayne Dyer The Power of Intention • Wayne Dyer The Secrets of the Power of Intention • You can reach me: Dana Thorp Patterson email: pattersd@otc.edu office (417) 447-8882 Cell (417) 569-6577