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Right-Minded Teamwork Attitudes & Behaviors

By Dan Hogan ・ Published: April 15, 2022 ・ Last Update: November 23, 2022 ・ 2 minutes to read

The Right-Minded Teamwork model includes a list of 30 behavioral and process-oriented teammate attitudes and behaviors with their associated costs and benefits. I collected and compiled these over three decades of team-building workshops.

This valuable list includes clear, specific, right, and wrong behaviors “taught” to us by either Reason or Ego.

Thoughts and attitudes always precede teamwork behavior. Right-Minded attitudes come from ReasonReason is a mythological character and symbolic guide who shows you how to think and behave in a Right-Minded way. As your Right-Minded teacher, Reason helps you differentiate and choose between Right-Minded and wrong-minded attitudes and behaviors.. Wrong-minded attitudes come from EgoEgo is the negative, wrong-minded teacher who continually tells you how difficult the world is and how you must constantly fight to survive..

The good news is that Right-Minded attitudes are natural. They are already inside you and your teammates.

Here are 4 of the 30 attitudes and behaviors.

  • Ego: Hold & project grievances; Never forget or forgive 
  • Reason: Embrace & extend forgiveness; Let go of issues from the past
  • Ego: There’s a mindset of scarcity, a belief that to give is to lose 
  • Reason: There’s an attitude of abundance, a belief that to give is to receive
  • Ego: We believe it is best to keep quiet when correction is needed           
  • Reason: We have a team culture of appropriately speaking up when a correction is needed
  • Ego: There is a feeling of avoidance and criticism among teammates       
  • Reason: There is a spirit of acknowledgment and reward among teammates

When you think about any of the wrong-minded Ego attitudes you see in the list, ask yourself,

How to Apply the Right Choice Model Create a Right-Minded Team That Works as One

Was I born with these depressing, debilitating, and awful Ego attitudes?

Your answer will always be “no!”

You learned those wrong-minded attitudes from Ego. That means you can unlearn them, too.

You can find the list in several RMT books, including How to Apply the Right Choice Model: Create a Right-Minded Team That Works as One.

To learn more about this simple but powerful teaching model, pick up your copy of How to Apply the Right Choice ModelThe model is a teaching aid that helps your team choose a set of unique, “right” teamwork attitudes and behaviors.: Create a Right-Minded Team That Works as One.

Download the ebook package here at Right-Minded Teamwork

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Joel Sorensen, Former Vice President, Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant

Joel S.Our plant moved from a victim culture to an accountable culture where everyone is now pulling together versus pulling apart. This new culture helped us to complete the last outage turnaround in record time.

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