Author Description

Do you want to make a difference at the right time, for the right reasons?<br/><br/>The Team Player inspires you to go from being just a member of the team, to being a highly effective team player through highly effective leadership.<br/><br/>Everyone throughout the world can influence another person, so therefore everybody throughout the world can lead. It’s not just the people in leadership positions. This book will teach you how to become a leader within your team.<br/><br/>It takes character to put others before yourself and do the right things for the right reasons. It takes courage to make that difference for them.<br/><br/>Highly effective team players seek out opportunities to help their teammates. They think of themselves less and others more. Is this you?<br/><br/>Increasing your own influence is what leadership is. Helping someone to increase their own influence will only multiply yours. As you go through this book you will learn that to become a highly effective team player, and eventually a highly effective leader…your influence must increase with your team.<br/><br/>Throughout this book, Tom Lawrence uses his own personal stories throughout his career in the engineering industry, being part of teams, and leading teams. In September 1999, he left school at 16 years old and became an apprentice mechanical engineer.<br/><br/>He has been in engineering for over 20 years and has worked in the automotive, gas/heating, and rail industries. He has also worked in Liverpool (his hometown), Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London in the UK. He also spent a short time working in India.<br/><br/>This book is not about engineering, it is about people. So, you will be able to relate to Tom’s stories, and you may have had similar experiences in your area of work and industry. Or, you may know other people who had similar experiences that you can relate to.<br/><br/>The principles to becoming a highly effective team player can be applied to any role, in any industry in the worl