Enhancing Teamwork Skills through Interactive Activities
Engage in a team building activity called Helium Stick to improve your teamwork skills, essential for success in various sectors. Explore Unifrog resources to document and showcase your competencies in teamwork. Reflect on the challenges faced, qualities required for effective teamwork, and the significance of teamwork to employers and universities. Utilize the provided structure to detail your teamwork experiences and access additional support for enhancing your competencies. Sign in to Unifrog platform to record your teamwork examples for future applications.
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Teacher slide Objectives: To be able to recognise the skill of teamwork, when you have implemented it and practise using it. You need: Computers (optional but highly recommended) Links to other resources: All the other competencies resources will be relevant for teaching alongside this one. We would encourage you to look at these in detail.
Unifrog resources Competencies: teamwork
Instructions The competencies section of the Unifrog platform allows you to list concrete examples of competencies, to support you in your future applications. A key competency employers and universities favour is teamwork. This competency is transferrable to numerous sectors and is complimentary to other competencies, including leadership, communication and problem solving. In this activity, you will take part in an activity designed to improve your teamwork skills.
Instructions Helium Stick You will have 15 minutes to complete this challenge. 1. Work in groups and stand in two lines facing each other. 2. Hold your index finger of your right hand at chest high. 3. A stick (or balloon) will be placed on the outstretched fingers. 4. Your challenge is to lower the stick to the ground. - All team members fingers must stay touching the stick at all times. - If anyone s finger loses contact with the stick then you must start again.
Discussion What aspect of the activity was challenging? What is required for effective teamwork? Why is teamwork an attractive quality to employers and universities? How have you demonstrated teamwork skills in or out of school?
Your competencies Login to the Unifrog platform and record examples of when you have displayed teamwork. You might find this structure helpful when writing about your experiences. Situation: Set the scene Task: What was the task? Action: What did you do? Result: What was the outcome?
Your competencies For additional support, see the examples of how to define and write about different competencies. Consider examples from: school, extra curricular activities, volunteering and employment.
Sign in at: unifrog.org/student
