The Teammate Tuesday Blog
Welcome to the Teammate Tuesday blog—Lance Loya’s collection of good teammate musings. These short, insightful pieces offer a unique glimpse into the art of being a good teammate. They are sure to improve teamwork and inspire you to become a better version of yourself.
Marliese the Photographer
Marliese Marie is a brilliant photographer. She works closely with acting and modeling agencies in commercial hotbeds like New York, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, and Los Angeles. Clients find her to be creative, personable, and exceptionally gifted at...
4 Ways to Crush Cliques
Cliques—tightknit groups within the primary team that engage in exclusivity by ostracizing those outside of their group—destroy teams from the inside out. They undermine culture, hurt morale, and cripple productivity. But more than anything,...
Shoelace Empowerment
I got to have lunch recently with my friend Sister Eric Marie, the octogenarian nun that I wrote about in my book Building Good Teammates: The Story of My Mount Rushmore, a Coaching Epiphany, and That Nun. We were joined by two of Sister Eric...
Nice Job, Buddy!
Leaders often complain about jealousy upending their teams’ chemistry. Someone on the team has achieved something that another team member covets. The feelings brought on by this scenario prevent the team from attaining a level of connectedness...
A Motivated “US”
A little over a month ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at a fundraising event for Southern Cross Service Dogs, an organization that provides trained service dogs at no cost to veterans with disabilities. The “Always Beside You Gala” was an...
Pink Shirt Teammates
In 2007, Travis Price and DJ Shephard, seniors at Central Kings Rural High School at the time, made a good teammate move of epic proportions. What they did that day forever altered the course of history—for the better. Price and Shepherd learned...
Matters of Your Time
Happy Valentines Day! Is it just me or does the arrival of this holiday seem anticlimactic? Almost every store I’ve entered since the day after Christmas has been inundated with red hearts. The heart has a curious connection to love. No one really...
Freed From Mental Slavery
Three weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the way good teammates handle mistakes titled Redemption Through Reinvention. I heard from a number of readers afterwards how timely what I wrote was for them and their teams, as they were being challenged by...
Sandpaper Teammates
Woodworking is a trade that requires creativity, dexterity, and patience—a lot of patience. To produce a quality product, no part of the carpentry process should be rushed. Diligence matters at every stage, especially when it comes to sanding. I’ve...
How Compliments Complement
Today is National Compliment Day! Created in the late 1990s by Debby Hoffman and Kathy Chamberlin, authors of the book Find Something Nice to Say, the date reminds us to use our words to brighten someone else’s day. Compliments make people feel...
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