How to Raise a Good Team Player

A team player is someone who is able to merge their own personal skills with the skills of their peers in order to complete tasks to the best possible standard. They recognise their own limitations and appreciate that the abilities of those around them are equally as important as their own. The question is, how can parents raise their children to be good team players? Here are some tips from a private school in Hampstead.

Help Your Child with their Communication Skills
Teamwork relies heavily on the ability to communicate well with one’s peers. With that said, try and expose your child to various social situations as much as possible while they’re young so that they can learn how to connect with people of different ages, genders, and races etc. Praise them when you notice that they have communicated well with someone, like listening as well as talking, sharing or taking turns.

Teach Your Child to Respect Others
Working as part of a team means you need to respect the ideas and opinions of others, and their general input in whatever the group activity may be. So, teach your child to respect others, even if their beliefs or thoughts are different. Work on the notion that they should treat people the way they wish to be treated and help them understand that sometimes they will need to compromise in order to ensure that no-one’s feelings are hurt.

Encourage Your Child to Join Team-Based Extra-Curricular Activities
If your child joins a football club, a choir, a drama class, or anything else that involves teamwork and socialisation, they be able to practise being a team player. If they can become familiar with working as part of a team while they’re young, they will be better at it when they’re older. After all, lots of careers require employees to be good team players and support their colleagues to ensure company-wide success.

These are just a few suggestions to get you started as there are various other ways to help you child become a great team player. For instance, you could assign them responsibilities around the house so that they learn that your family need to work as a team to keep your home running smoothly. You should also help teach them conflict resolution tactics, so that they can learn how to overcome disagreements with their peers.

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