Teamwork
Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.
Sample Behaviors
- Listen carefully to others, taking time to understand and ask appropriate questions without interrupting
- Effectively manage conflict, interact with and respect diverse personalities, and meet ambiguity with resilience
- Be accountable for individual and team responsibilities and deliverables
- Employ personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others
- Exercise the ability to compromise and be agile
- Collaborate with others to achieve common goals
- Build strong, positive working relationships with supervisor and team members/coworkers
Develop
Over the course of your educational experience at TU, you can gain proficiency within the teamwork competency through some of the following methods:
- Join a TU social organization and actively participate
- Participate in Campus Recreation activities such as intramural or club sports
- Join a major- or industry-specific student group
- Actively participate in group projects in classes
- Engage in community engagement opportunities such as the Impact TU
- Start your own club!
- Continue to find opportunities to work with others
- Gain an on-campus student employment opportunity
- Participate in experiential education (internships, Study Abroad & Study Away and/or community-based learning)
- Pursue executive board member roles in student organizations
Develop your skills
LinkedIn Learning
Develop your teamwork skills by completing these free LinkedIn Learning courses. Select the course title below, click “Sign in,” and use your TU email to get started.
- Teamwork Foundations
- Working with Difficult People
- Being Positive at Work
- Building Professional Relationships
- Conflict Resolution For Beginners
- Building Resilience as a Leader
- Collaborative Leadership
- Collaboration Principles and Process
- How to Speak So People Want to Listen
- Making Big Goals Achievable
Articulate
Use the following list of action verbs to describe activities related to teamwork:
- Aid; brainstorm; build; collaborate; collect; contribute; cooperate; delegate; elect; engage; enhance; enlist; facilitate; integrate; interact; listen; mediate; moderate; negotiate; organize; participate; partner; provide; recruit; resolve; translate; unite; work with
Sample Resume Bullet Points
- Collaborated with four other officers to hold weekly workshops for effective workplace and internship skills
- Worked with students, faculty and staff to plan Towson University’s International Education Week
- Enlisted ten peers to engage in community service at a local animal shelter
- Delegated weekly duties to five-member team to restock and organize inventory
For additional resume assistance, visit the Career Center's Resumes page or schedule an appointment.
Interview Questions
Be prepared to answer common teamwork interview questions including:
- Give an example of how you built and maintained a professional relationship.
- Tell me about a time when you worked on a team. What was your role and how did you ensure you met your commitments to the team?
- Describe a time when you disagreed with a teammate. How did you resolve the conflict?
- What is one characteristic of a successful team and why?
- Describe a situation in which teamwork enhanced your ability to accomplish goals or improve outcomes.