Power Skills Teamwork

     The main skill needed to work with others as a cohesive team for common goal is communication. Communication is crucial to a team because it gets ideas and messages around. It is primarily through communication that you have discussions with your team on how to achieve a goal. You must have good communications skills for many reasons. One is to ensure you do not mislead any of your teammates. If you are not clear with how you communicate there will be misunderstandings in your team which will cause confusion and delay which does not look good. Another reason is to ensure members of your team don't have any difficulties personally. Communicating with your teammates not only lets you get the job done but it helps you learn more about the people you're working with personally. Knowing your teammates personally can ensure that it is more comfortable to work with them. It also ensures you will be able to identify any discomfort or conflict your teammate(s) may have even if they don't express it verbally.
     Organization/coordination is another skill important to teamwork. A team is assigned a task which must be broken down in order for it to be done efficiently. Certain people are better in certain technical skills than others. You must be able to identify these strengths and weaknesses of yourself and others so you can assign tasks accordingly. This ensures that there is little struggle to get a task done and you are more likely to get the task at large done faster this way with your team. Good organization makes it less likely there is misunderstanding in your team so work can flow more smoothly.