Ready to Roar: Teamwork
July 16, 2024
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TEAMWORK
What is teamwork?
The ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.
What teamwork looks like:
- Listening carefully to others, taking time to understand and ask appropriate questions without interrupting.
- Effectively managing conflict, interacting with and respecting diverse personalities, and meeting ambiguity with resilience.
- Being accountable for individual and team responsibilities and deliverables.
- Employing personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others.
- Exercising the ability to compromise and be agile.
- Collaborating with others to achieve common goals.
- Building strong, positive working relationships with supervisor and team members/coworkers.
Where to build teamwork skills as a student:
- Student organizations
- Intramural sports
- Class projects
- Student-athletics
- Service learning
- Student employment
How employers may ask about teamwork:
- How do you communicate effectively with team members from different backgrounds and disciplines?
- Describe a situation when you were able to help a team member or peer.
- Tell me about a time when you worked on a successful team project. What was your role in the team, and what did you contribute to the team's success?
- How do you ensure that all team members' ideas are heard and considered?
- Can you give me an example of a time when you had to compromise your ideas for the success of the overall team’s project?
How to put teamwork skills on your resume:
- Worked closely with other team members on a semester-long software engineering project, delivering a high-quality product on time and within budget.
- Served as team leader for a group of 10 students in a business case competition, guiding the team to a 2nd place finish.
- Organized and facilitated weekly team meetings to discuss progress on a research project, ensuring that all team members were aligned and on track.
- Volunteered with a team of students to provide free tutoring services to underprivileged children in the community, helping to improve their academic performance.
- Collaborated with fellow Executive Board members to plan out semester activities for 100-member chapter.
- Brainstormed ideas with a team of 5 to create better working and living environment as a Resident Assistant.
- Helped adviser train staff on how to use online programs and assigned staff members to roles that best suit skill sets.
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