The 10 Characteristics of Right-Minded Teammates are the specific, emotionally mature traits that define highly effective teammates.
They are core attributes that align the teammate’s authentic self with the Right-Minded Teamwork aspiration: Do No Harm, Work as One. ®
These traits are the cause of a successful team environment, ensuring that the team’s shared Thought System is collaborative rather than adversarial. Though teammates possess diverse backgrounds, they share these characteristics as a foundation for teamwork.
⭐ The Core 10 Characteristics
- Trust: The foundational characteristic. It stems from a forgiving attitude, which creates the safety necessary for teammates to collaborate and resolve difficulties.
- Honesty: Consistency in thought and deed, aligning personal goals with the team’s psychological goals and forgiving values.
- Tolerance: Indication of non-judgment, allowing the wisdom of diversity to surface, as tolerant teammates know they are equal, though not the same.
- Gentleness: The only sane response to challenging situations, opening doors where harshness and judgment would close them.
- Joy: The inevitable result of gentleness, tolerance, honesty, and forgiveness.
- Defenselessness: The courage to lay aside judgmental defenses that prevent the team from finding solutions, allowing teammates to Do No Harm and Work as One.
- Generosity: Humbly and willingly giving knowledge and effort to achieve 100% Customer Satisfaction, recognizing that to give is to receive.
- Patience: Comes naturally when the strongest desire is to work as one and be tolerant and gentle with teammates.
- Open-Mindedness: Embracing Right-Mindedness to ensure resistance to RMT is overcome.
- Faithfulness: Trust in the team’s version of Right-Minded Teamwork, knowing that it inevitably leads the team to happy outcomes.
Application and Development
These characteristics serve as powerful Right-Minded Attitudes that guide behavior. When difficult situations occur, teammates demonstrate these traits by first committing to thinking in a do-no-harm way, and then choosing corresponding behaviors (such as focusing on finding solutions).
Teams actively reinforce these traits when they create and live by their Work Agreements, ensuring their return to the Unified Circle of Right-Minded Thinking. Teammates can actively encourage these characteristics through the 7 Mindfulness Training Lessons and the Right Choice Model, which are core tools used in Teammate Development (RMT Element #5).
Action: Apply the Characteristics Today
Action: Download these characteristics for the complete definition of each, and get started applying them in your team today!