1. TEAMWORK FOR YOUTH
BY
KIECHELLE DEGALE
WWW.KIECHELLE.COM
KiE Leadership Training & Development Ltd.

3. TEAMWORK
 Creative cooperation
 Celebrating differences
 The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
 Open to other ideas, influences and insights
 Recognising the value of others
 Valuing other opinions –whether you agree or not
 Leveraging more talent and skills than your own
 Have a healthy respect for diversity
 Have an open mind and be responsive to new
ideas

4. GOOD TEAM PLAYER
 This is a key
employability skill!
 Being able to show that A good team player will
you can work Listen
collaboratively with
Question
others from a wide
range of backgrounds Persuade
is a key requirement in Participate and the
most occupations and ability to
is very important when Lead when they need to
applying for a graduate
job

5. HOW TO BUILD OUR TEAM
WORKING SKILLS
 Course Work -presentations, group assessments etc
 Find Part time Work – customer care experience,
commercial awareness, team leading etc
 Volunteer!
A survey carried out by TimeBank through Reed Executive showed that
among 200 of the UK’s leading businesses
73% of employers would recruit a candidate with volunteering experience
over one without
94% of employers believe that volunteering can add to skills
94% of employees who volunteered to learn new skills had benefited
either by getting their first job, improving their salary, or being
promoted

6. AND REMEMBER TO ..GET INVOLVED!
 Get involved in clubs, societies or with the Students'
Union. Take part in enrichment activities
 Start your own society
 Organise a trip
 Get involved in fundraising,
 Join a sports team
 Organise a campaign
 Get involved in a community project
 Join a debating society
 Get involve in inter college competitions

8. Past applicants to Microsoft’s
graduate programmes have been
asked at the telephone interview
stage to give an example of a time
when they have influenced another
team member. The ability to influence
plays an important part in making
someone a good team worker, and
technology companies such as
Microsoft look for candidates with
competencies such as teamwork as
well as technical ability.

9. The Balloon Debate
You are in a hot air balloon which is losing height rapidly and will soon crash
because it is overweight; therefore you have to get rid of seven of the
passengers! Who would you choose? The passengers are:
 Mother Teresa  Diego Maradona
 Michael Jackson  Albert Einstein
 Mahatma Gandhi  David Beckham
 Queen Victoria  Abraham Lincoln
 Nelson Mandela  Mozart
 David Cameron  Martin Luther King
 Charles Darwin  Jane Austen
 William Shakespeare  Christopher Columbus
 Barack Obama  Bill Gates

10. CAREER RANKING – VALUE TO SOCIETY
RANK THE FOLLOWING CAREERS IN THE ORDER OF VALUE YOU THINK
THEY BRING TO SOCIETY:
NURSE
SOCIAL WORKER
ARMY OFFICER
BANK MANAGER
POLITICIAN
LAWYER
FAITH LEADER
ENGINEER
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
ACTOR
FARMER
DOCTOR
AIRLINE PILOT
BUSINESS OWNER
JOURNALIST
POLICEMAN
SCHOOL TEACHER

11. YOU CAN ALSO BENEFIT BY ASKING YOURSELF SOME
OTHER QUESTIONS:
WHERE DO YOU FIT IN? WHAT IS YOUR ROLE IN
GROUPS?
ARE YOU A PLAYER OR AN OBSERVER?
DO YOU CO-OPERATE WITH OTHERS, LEAD, FOLLOW,
CONTRIBUTE, GUIDE, ADVISE OR JUST WATCH?
SHOULD YOU TAKE A MORE ACTIVE ROLE?
SHOULD YOU CONTRIBUTE MORE?
HAVE YOU A DOMINANT PERSONALITY? IF SO - SHOULD
YOU ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO CONTRIBUTE?
GOOD GROUP WORK, EFFECTIVE COMMITTEES AND
SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT TEAMS ARE BASED ON
EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EVERYONE. WHERE DO
YOU FIT IN? CO-OPERATING WITH OTHERS IS VITAL FOR
EVERY TYPE OF LEADERSHIP TASK!