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.
The 3 Rules of Good Teammate Communication
Communication is an essential component of group success. It doesn’t matter if it’s on the court or in the boardroom, good teams have good communication. Everybody on the team is expected to convey information. We convey the coach’s instructions to...
Wondermates
Let me begin by making it clear this is not a movie review—an endorsement, perhaps, but not a review. I had the pleasure of seeing the movie Wonder last week and found it to be both entertaining and incredibly inspiring. The movie is based on R.J....
The Thankful Teammate
The Thanksgiving holiday descends upon America this week. Beyond eating and drinking our fill, it is also supposed to be an occasion to reflect on that for which we are thankful and—ideally—openly express our gratitude towards those for whom we are...
Lost and Found: Insight from Kendrick Perkins
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) As many of you are aware, I’ve been working on my next book, The WE Gear. It is about the art of being a good teammate and shifting your focus from me to we. During the course of my research for the book, Kendrick...
Coach I’s Impact
File this under the heading Why we teach. I got a message a few days ago from a former classmate, letting me know his father was going to be celebrating a milestone birthday this week. His father, Tom Iagulli, was a beloved teacher and coach at our...
Don’t Let ’em Quit
If you have read my book Building Good Teammates, you are aware of my love/hate relationship with youth sports. In many, many, many ways they are the home to everything that is pure and wholesome about the sports world. They are where aspiring...
7 Things Teammates Can Share Other than Their Possessions
The willingness to share is a trademark of a good teammate because it suggests unselfishness. Teams have a chance to be successful when they are unselfish. Yet the act of sharing is often counterintuitive. Giving up what we already possess doesn’t...
Circling: The Art of Disrespecting Time
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about respecting time. (If you missed it, you can read it here.) Over the course of several subsequent conversations about this topic, a reader posed an interesting question to me: Is it possible to have too much...
Targeting the Low Hanging Teammate Fruit
Yesterday, I was walking with a friend and we were talking about a project I have been working on. During the course of our conversation, my friend used an expression to describe the strategy I was using to attack the project. I was unfamiliar with...
The Happy Shirt Collection
Look what I got in the mail this week! A Hard Rock Café t-shirt from Aruba. I am a little taken back by it, to be honest. Let me explain… I collect Hard Rock Café t-shirts. There is a wall in my house where the entire collection is prominently...
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