Teamwork

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” 

      Henry Ford

What is Teamwork?

Teamwork is the ability to build and maintain relationships between yourself and others to work towards common goals. It also incorporates appreciating and approaching diverse methodology and creating a sense of shared responsibility.

WCSU Opportunities to Grow your Teamwork Skills

Compassion Competency

How can I demonstrate my teamwork skills to a potential employer?

A common way for students would be to join a University sports team or organization as they require constant collaboration and/or compromise. Professional organizations outside of Universities can also showcase these same skills but in your relevant professional fields. For more personalized advice with developing your teamwork competency, come visit the Career Success Center.

Sample Activity 

Example

You build collaborative relationships with colleagues and customers representing diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, lifestyles, abilities and viewpoints.

"At work, we have a very large and diverse staff. When working in large projects, I need to interact with multiple staff members on several different levels of the hierarchy. Ultimately, this produces work that is inclusive and well-rounded."

You are able to work in a team and negotiate and manage conflict when it arises.

"In one of my classes, we were assigned a media campaign group project. My group worked together to decide how we wanted to market ourselves and what elements of the campaign to place the most focus on I knew it was important for us to share our individual input, and by doing this we were able to see each other eye to eye and come to a compromise for our campaign."

You employ personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others.

"When I first start working with a new group I try to gauge every members strengths and weaknesses through a combination of asking them and observing their work. After meeting with my teammates I get them to brainstorm ways we can improve our team dynamic with all that information in mind."

You listen carefully to others, taking time to understand and ask appropriate questions without interrupting.

"Getting multiple perspectives on an idea is the most effective way to develop a new, concrete, and effective product. When evaluating these concepts in teams it is critical that everybody voices their concerns and the rest of the team listens and understands them in order to get a well rounded final product."