What are the skills and competencies that you look for when hiring or joining a team?

2 Teamwork skills

Teamwork skills are essential for building trust, resolving conflicts, and achieving synergy in a team. Effective communication, productive collaboration, respecting diversity, and problem solving are all important abilities that allow you to work effectively and cooperatively with others. Communication involves exchanging and understanding information, ideas, and feelings with others, while collaboration involves working together and sharing responsibilities, resources, and ideas. Diversity involves appreciating and valuing the differences and similarities among people, and problem solving involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues. Active listening, asking questions, giving feedback, and using non-verbal cues are all methods that can help you communicate effectively and respectfully with your team members. Brainstorming, decision making, and delegation are tools that can help you collaborate productively and creatively. Inclusion, tolerance, and empathy are practices that can help you respect diversity and foster a positive and supportive team culture. Defining the problem, generating alternatives, evaluating options, and implementing solutions are techniques that can help you solve problems effectively and efficiently with your team members.

3 Teamwork activities

Teamwork activities are exercises and games that can help you practice and demonstrate your self-management and teamwork skills in a fun and engaging way. Icebreakers are activities that introduce yourself, get to know each other, and break the ice in a team. Team building activities strengthen relationships, cooperation, and performance in a team. Role playing activities simulate and practice real-life scenarios in a team. Examples of these activities include Two truths and a lie, Tower of Hanoi, Customer service, and Negotiation. These activities can help you build rapport, trust, and comfort, enhance communication, collaboration, and problem solving skills, and develop emotional management, diversity, and conflict resolution skills.