WPRS - Teamwork

Workplace Readiness Skills - Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Warm-up Activity

From your perspective, tell me in Schoology what this "Team Work" collage is saying to you....

21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills for the Commonwealth states....

Teamwork is when you.... shares responsibility for collaborative work and respects the thoughts, opinions and contributions of other team members

What is Teamwork?

• establishing expectations, roles, and goals

• contributing to the success of the team by sharing responsibility

• respecting the thoughts, opinions, and contributions of other team members

Why Is Teamwork Important?

• Teamwork is an essential part of workplace success

• Every member has a specific role to play in accomplishing tasks on the job

• Success is made possible by many people’s planning, coordination, and cooperation

• Employers look for people who know how to work well with others

• When everyone in the workplace works together to accomplish goals, everyone wins

• In addition to having different roles, teamwork involves building relationships and working with other people using a number of important skills and habits

Let's take a moment to view the Teamwork videos:

• https://youtu.be/TL2AaVI9tRs - Why is teamwork important?

• https://youtu.be/kYjqtLCNqSA - 5 reasons why Effective Teamwork is important

• https://youtu.be/np2achuyuqk - How important is Teamwork?

• All videos mentioned above, are loaded in Google Classroom

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Multiple Choice

Question 1: If a team member shows up late to their team project meeting every week. Is this an example of good teamwork?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Question 2: If you have a team member that doesn't like to take charge of the group, but he enjoys contributing his ideas. Is this person being a good team member?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Question 3: Is teamwork just getting along with other people on team?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Question 4: Is working as a team, means that you are listening and respecting other team member's ideas.

• Yes

• No

Wrap - up

Please take a moment to provide a comment in Schoology (a minimum of 4 sentences)...Tell me what you learned about Teamwork, based on the videos you viewed and the information presented in this Lesson?