Skills for employability

Why are we here?

• Team working

• Communication skills

• Presentation skills

• Business planning

• Entrepreneurship

What’s in it for you?

Learning and developing vital new skills

Trying things out

Having fun

Skills Behaviours

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What makes a successful team?

What are your individual strengths and weaknesses in a team?Share your view with a partner

Team Roles

The Co-ordinator clarifies group objectives, sets the agenda, establishes priorities, selects problems, sums up and is decisive, but does not dominate discussions.

The Shaper gives shape to the team effort, looking for pattern in discussions and practical considerations regarding the feasibility of the project. Can steamroller the team, but gets results.

The Plant is the source of original ideas, suggestions and proposals that are usually original and radical.

The Monitor-Evaluator contributes a measured and dispassionate analysis and, through objectivity, stops the team committing itself to a misguided task.

More Team roles

The Implementer turns decisions and strategies into defined and manageable tasks, sorting out objectives and pursuing them logically.

The Resource Investigator goes outside the team to bring in ideas, information and developments to it. They are the team’s salesperson, diplomat, liaison officer and explorer.

The Team Worker operates against division and disruption in the team, like cement, particularly in times of stress and pressure.

The Completer Finisher maintains a permanent sense of urgency with relentless follow-through.

Which roles do you think you often use?

Which roles do you need to develop?

Reflection on today’s workshop…..

Self-reflection exercise

What are the most important things I have learned today?

About myself?

About others?

What did I do particularly well today?

If I could start the day over, what would Ido differently?

What three things will I take from today and apply to my further learning and development?

What is success?