Employability Skills: Connect and work with others

Teamwork is about building the work-related relationships needed to achieve outcomes and goals through team-based collaborations. It involves the ability to understand others and build rapport, and understanding the needs of others and the implicit social rules of context.

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These focus areas describe the kinds of skills, knowledge and understandings that an individual should demonstrate to be able to interact with others:

Understand self

• Recognise your own personal strengths and limits through self reflection
• Identify and address areas of need by observing others and seeking feedback
• Recognise your own responses and manage reactions to events and others
• Seek expert advice and skills training where required

Build rapport

• Build rapport with others 
• Use non verbal behaviour effectively to put others at ease
• Take into account cultural differences where appropriate
• Acknowledge the needs and points of view of others

Cooperate and collaborate

• Build and maintain effective working relationships 
• Recognise and respond to the subtle and complex mix of factors at play in every interaction
• Provide feedback to others in forms they can understand and use
• Actively build formal and informal networks to include people/ communities with expert skills, knowledge, connections and decision making power

 

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