{"id":15918,"date":"2021-04-05T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/?page_id=15918"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:47:55","slug":"wcsu-competency-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wcsu-competency-teamwork\/","title":{"rendered":"WCSU Competency: Teamwork"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teamwork<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cComing together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Henry Ford<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Check out our\u00a0Skill Up<\/a>\u00a0page for some recommendations on online platforms you can use right now, at home, to develop your teamwork skills. Many offer free trials or free access to a large selection of different courses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Career Success Center's Life Design<\/a> workshops and classes will teach you how to develop critical life and career skills including reframing of problems, collaboration, navigating unknowns, maximizing personal strengths, and much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Getting involved on campus creates many opportunities to work with fellow students and develop essential collaborative skills. Visit the Center for Student Involvement<\/a> to learn about the many ways to join a team at WCSU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce<\/a> hosts many events and a large directory of member organizations across many industries. Many of these events and organizations can help you develop essential teamwork skills and build professional experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Assume a role in one of the many great WCSU Student Clubs<\/a>. Enjoy practicing your subject of choice in one or more of the University's many organizations and work with your fellow members to accomplish tasks and have fun.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Become Involved With A Local Community Board Or Club<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting involved in a local community group is a great way to develop teamwork skills while also having an impact on your area. Most groups are focused on specific issues or topics in the community so the opportunities to take part and even lead one of their initiatives are numerous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you are interested in getting involved in one in the Danbury area checkout the\u00a0Greater Danbury Chamber Directory<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Cultural Centers<\/a>\u00a0of Danbury<\/p>\n

For any area of your choice, you can also check out\u00a0The Yellow Pages<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Great Nonprofits<\/a>\u00a0for exclusively nonprofit organizations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Volunteering also creates many opportunities to practice teamwork and you can make a difference in other people's lives as you do it. These opportunities are not just limited to in person activities either. Some, like the Crisis Text Line which allows people to communicate via text with people in crisis, can be done entirely at home online.<\/p>\n

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If opportunities like this interest you, check out other\u00a0volunteering opportunities<\/a>\u00a0or come see us at the Career Success Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You build collaborative relationships with colleagues and customers representing diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, lifestyles, abilities and viewpoints.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"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.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You are able to work in a team and negotiate and manage conflict when it arises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"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.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You employ personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"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.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You listen carefully to others, taking time to understand and ask appropriate questions without interrupting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"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.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Teamwork \u201cComing together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Henry Ford Teamwork is the ability to build and maintain relationships between yourself and others to work towards common goals. It also …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"university-homepage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}