Workplace Readiness Skills

Teamwork is:

• The same as cooperative

• Non-productive because there are so many varied opinions

• Selecting many goals and each person working on their own project

• Not recommended in the workplace

Rules of behavior based on what is morally good and bad

• Ethics

• Standards

• Values

• Intentions

What is diversity?

• The condition of having or being composed of differing elements; especially people

• A complex organization

• A solution to a problem

• Types of products

The way you think about something

• Attitude

• Work Ethic

• Norm

• Personal Conditioning

Real integrity is doing the right thing….

• Whether no one knows or not

• When it seems right

• Always

• On a daily basis

What is the definition of Interpersonal Skills?

• Being, relating to or involving relations between persons

• Body Language

• Giving a good speech

• None of the above

Carla believes she is more productive when she listens to music at work, but her boss does not allow it. She should

• follow company policy.

• try to convince her boss of her point of view

• put on headphones to listen in private.

• listen to it anyway since it is good for productivity.

You are working at a graphic design firm. Your team is working on an important project and your team leader asks you to stay late to meet a deadline. Since you normally get off at 5pm. from work, you previously agreed to take a neighbor to an important appointment at 6:30pm. What should you do?

• Make other arrangements for your neighbor and stay to finish the project deadline.

• Agree to stay and finish your project without question because work is more important.

• Since you first committed to help your neighbor, tell your coworker you cannot stay and why.

• Reach a compromise and work until 6p.m. and then leave and try to still take your neighbor to the 6:30p.m. appointment

Justice told his boss he would finish the financial report by Friday. Following through on his commitment is an

example of which positive workplace trait?

• reliability

• resourcefulness

• problem-solving

• honesty

Your plumbing crew is working on a new building project. You are assigned to cut pipe for the job. You notice that

a peer employee is having great difficulty carrying a long section of pipe. What is the most appropriate action?

• Help your peer carry the long section of pipe.

• Stay on your job assignment all day.

• Tell someone else to go help this employee who is having trouble.

• Stop cutting long sections of pipe