Group Work to Team Work: Career Asset Building

At the end of this section of the course:

You will understand the research basis of the course and the importance of your own efforts to reflect upon your groups projects from a teamwork point of view.

You will understand the importance of applying the course concepts and strategies to reflections of your past groups projects and on your active engagement in future group projects as ways to tune up your teamwork knowledge and skills.

You will understand the 5 areas of social/emotional knowledge and skill known as EQ and understand how performance in groups and teams can inform you AND recruiters about you EQ.

At the end of this section of the course:

You will understand the ways in which recruiters think that personality is linked to Group and Team performance and will understand some of the limitations to those connections.

You will understand each of the “Big 5” dimensions of personality understand how performance in groups and teams can inform your and recruiters about your personality tendencies.

At the end of this section of the course:

You will understand the ways in which the nature and role of team leaders can vary by the context or type of team or group involved and how those differences can affect team performance. 

You will understand the differences between Relationship, Process and Task conflicts and the different strategies and planning tactics that can be used to address each of them.

At the end of this section of the course:

You will understand the importance of actively addressing typical group/team controversies when they arise.

You will understand and know how and when to apply the 4 steps in each of the research-based systems for dealing constructively with group/team controversy described in the lecture (e.g., the S.U.I.T. model).

After completing this section of this course, you:

Will understand the importance of conducting an active group or individual debriefing following each group/team project.

Using the template provided in the lecture (in addition to the models discussed in the previous lecture) you will be able to analyze any of your group/team projects and create lists of what you should focus on in your next group/team process in order to increase you skills, improve your groups’/teams’ performances, tune your teamwork skills and gather behavioral examples to use when talking with recruiters.

Will also become aware of the other contexts, outside of school or work, where you can find opportunities to engage in group/team projects and develop your team skill set by applying the models and ideas presented in this class.

At the end of this section of the course:

You will understand what behavioral questions are and why recruiters like them and ask them.

You will become aware of some of the typical questions related to teamwork experience that recruiters actually ask and will have a clear idea of how best to compose and deliver answers to those questions based on your own actual group/team experiences.

This section of the course reviews the teamwork knowledge and skills you have acquired in this course and look at how you can continue to develop your teamwork knowledge, skills, and confidence by applying what you now know to your future group and team projects.