MC TEAM virtues

 

MC Team Member Virtues

An ideal MC team member embodies three virtues of Jesus: humble, hungry and emotionally healthy.

The power this combination yields drastically accelerates and improves the process of building healthy high-performing teams. If one of these values is lacking in a team member it makes working together more difficult and sometimes impossible.

HUMBLE

MC team members are humble. They lack excessive ego or concerns about status. They are quick to point out the contributions of others and slow to seek recognition for their own. They share credit, emphasize team over self, and define success collectively rather than individually.

They are also people who don’t lack self-confidence. Sometimes discounting yourself can appear like humility, but this is not humility. MC team members have an appropriate view of who they are in Jesus and strive to live fully into it.

Truly humble people don’t see themselves greater than they truly are, and they don’t shy away from how God has gifted them.

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”
— Pastor Rick Warren
“Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.”
— Romans 12:3

HUNGRY

MC team members are hungry. They are always eager for more:

  • more things to do

  • more to learn

  • more responsibility

    Hungry people rarely have to be pushed by a manager to work harder because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity.

    They also are not ‘work alcoholics’ who don’t know how to have healthy boundaries. They are people who can stop on a project to be with family, friends, and enjoy other things in life.

“Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”
— Colossians 3:23

Healthy

MC team members are people emotionally healthy. They are emotionally aware of how their words, actions and attitudes affects others on the team. They have common sense about people. They tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to effectively deal with others. They have good judgment and intuition around the subtleties of group dynamics and the impact of their words and actions.

“ Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.”
— Philippians 2:4

Take a more detailed look at the importance of being strong in all 3 of the virtues and the downfalls of only being strong in 1 or 2 of the 3 virtues.

* a lot of credit goes to Patrick Lencioni and his work on this captured in “The Ideal Team Player”