What Are Teamwork Skills? Build Skills For Life And Work – Youth Employment UK

Teamwork Skills At Work

Most types of work involve you working as a team. Good teamwork means everyone working well together.

Your teamwork skills can help you at work in all sorts of ways. Perhaps you’re working in construction and thinking about the health and safety of yourself and your team mates. Maybe your team has work together to create a report for a client to a tight deadline. Teamwork also helps gets things done when you’re planning a birthday party for someone you work with!

Having teamwork skills will make it a much better experience for everyone, whether you are working long hours or trying to choose which cake to buy.

Building teamwork skills at work will help you:

• Achieve a team goal in a quick and positive way
• Improve your communication skills, e.g. listening, taking instruction and offering support and ideas

Good teamwork skills will give you more chances to move forward in your career, too. People can see you as someone with a positive attitude who thinks the company’s goals are important. This can help you get more opportunities, responsibility, training and promotions over time.