I’ve spent most of my life on a team. I lived and breathed competition as soon as I could. From a young age, I jumped into baseball, basketball, football, and in college I found an outlet in rugby. Over the years I’ve played every role imaginable on these teams. I’ve been fortunate enough to experience sports from a variety of roles within a team. I was never very good at football, so I played only small role. I was an average baseball player, so I played a moderate amount. I fell in love with rugby and put all my effort into it and now am fortunate enough to travel the country and play.

One of the most important things my experience in sports has taught me is that it takes every role performing to the best of their ability for the team to succeed.

A good coach always reminds his players that no one individual can succeed without the team. The core concept is that you all rely on each other.

Sports have provided me with a number of life lessons, and my experience with them have been invaluable. You may stop playing sports, but you’ll be a part of teams for the rest of your life. Daxko picks up the team mentality and runs with it. When I accepted a role as Project Manager at Daxko, I jumped in to a team of people who immediately welcomed me in. When I say ‘team’ I don’t mean every employee at Daxko (although they certainly were all friendly); I specifically mean the Project Management team around me.

Daxko puts a lot of emphasis on what kind of player you are for your team. You’re in for a few personality tests when you first start out, including Marcus Buckingham's StandOut assessment. Learning to identify your Strengths will help your Team Lead understand what you bring to your team and will inform how they use you as a player. You’ll never be curious as to what each of your teammates strengths are, because you’ll see these handy magnets throughout the office that identify everyone’s strengths.

As I’ve spent time learning the ins-and-outs of life at Daxko, it’s obvious that each member of our team plays a role that helps drive us forward.

We have role players, contributors, superstars, captains, and coaches. Together we learn our strengths, what we can bring to the team, and how to contribute to our ultimate goal: Success. And yes, it’s cliché, but we all rely on one another to be successful.

Whether I’m on the rugby pitch or in the PM pod, I’m working with my team to be competitive and succeed.

Working in a place where you’re surrounded by people who are invested in your satisfaction and your success is empowering.

We’re all working toward the same goal, all aiming at the same objective. We want to be the most loved company in our industry. To do this, we leverage our entire team’s strengths to empower one another to be the best at what we do.

Zac R. is a Project Manager who loves naps, karaoke, and self-deprecating humor.

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