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Teamwork Skills

Your willingness to understand a variety of viewpoints and work with others, often to achieve a common aim.

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Explore your understanding

Sharing ideas and taking on responsibility are all part of a collaborative approach to completing a task. Being able to work alongside others, being flexible, delegating, sharing ideas and adapting to new information are all key aspects of teamwork skills. Understanding more about how you operate in a team situation, and what your role might be within the team, can help you achieve your goal.

You will find that your work and how you work with others can also contribute to the overall goals of a common aim.


Develop your teamwork skills

Where can you improve your teamwork skills at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº?

Join a club or society

Be part of aÌýclub or society within the Students’ UnionÌýand further develop your teamwork skills. Take on a role within a committee and contribute to the operations and success of the wider group or be a part of a team through ±«°ä³¢â€™s Sport & Fitness activities. The Students Union also offer aÌývariety of skills sessionsÌýsuch as ‘Successful Team Working’.

partners with more than 400 local charities to promote their volunteering opportunities. Use the Volunteering ³§±ð°ù±¹¾±³¦±ð’s skills explorer to find volunteering opportunities where you can develop new skills and build on existing ones. It’s a great tool to use in conjunction with your wider career planning.

Use digital tools to expand teamworking skills

Attend a trainer-led session or take part in an online course to learn a new skill. From Mentimeter-improving feedback and interaction to using online whiteboards to encourage collaboration, you can learn how stronger digital skills positively impacts your teamwork ability.

Use LinkedIn Learning to grow your skillset

LinkedIn Learning has a huge range of video courses supporting learning in software, creative and business skills – all free to ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº staff and currently enrolled students.ÌýAccess LinkedIn learning content to build your team-working skills.

Develop your entrepreneurial skills and startup ideas with others

Work alongside others while learning how businesses operate. Get hands on practical teamwork skills experience by attending the 1 day Imagine: Business idea generation boot camp where you will be able to understand more about the value of a good team and evaluate your own personal strengths.

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Employer-led Skills Sessions

Attend an Employer-led Skills session on Teamwork where you hear directly from employers about how to develop this skill.ÌýYou could also try coming to a MockÌýAssessment Centre where you can practice solving problems and working on case studies in a team to gain experience on what it is like to work with others to achieve a common goal.

Employer-led skills sessions

Learn a new language

Learn a language and make connections with others within the Centre for Languages and International Education (CLIE). Try anÌýevening language class or a summer course.ÌýDeveloping your language skills will better enable you to work on international, multi-lingual teams, and to broaden your understanding of different cultures and ways of working.

Widening Participation

Become a programme mentor, or an ambassadorÌýwith the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Widening Participation Office. Develop your teamwork skills by working with different audiences. ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº students who are involved in WP activities receive appropriate training and gain experience of working with young people.Ìý

Widening Participation

Develop your teamwork skills as a researcher

Expand and develop your teamwork skills through the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Doc Skills Programme which is open to all postgraduate researchers at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº. The ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Doc Skills Programme is open to all postgraduate researchers at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº. You’ll find moreÌýinformation on all of the courses available.

You will also be able to browse theÌýscheduled events for researchersÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýthose for doctoral students.ÌýÌýResearch students can alsoÌý and access one-to-one advice, practice interviews and workshops tailored to researchers.


Prepare your examples

Ask yourself:

What did you like about working in a group?

What did you learn from a particular situation involving others?

What roles have you adopted within a team? Can you describe what you learnt?

Next steps:

Need some support on how to structure your answer relating to teamwork for an interview?

Visit our Interview SkillsÌýpage.ÌýHere you can find out more about how to structure your answer and demonstrate your skills along with many more resources that will help you prepare.

How to demonstrate your skills in an interview

If you have written a draft application for any type of opportunity, our team can provide personalised practical tips and advice to help you better understand how recruiters will shortlist your application, and how you can best demonstrate your motivation and your most relevant skills/experience.

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