Key Skills – Working With Others



One of the three wider skills areas is working with others. It is not specific to any one subject but is a skill that many people find difficult to get to grips with. You find your own company fine, and working with other people can get frustrating and you many just end up sat off to the side unsure of how to progress next, choosing to keep quiet rather than risk someone else not liking your ideas or supporting your thought processes. You may be the complete opposite, and you may feel the only way you can work as a group is by dominating and taking over, which also may mean that you alienate yourself and find that the rest of the group has gone off and got on with things without you.

In fact neither of these are very sensible ways to work as a group and sometimes it is not just a skill you develop naturally, which is where this course comes into its own: it will teach you to look at the problem in hand and decide the areas that need addressing, how to assign roles and most importantly how you can support others and receive support so that no one gets isolated from the group. Whilst it may seem a futile skill, there are so many times in life where working together is going to be important: in your place of work for example, teamwork is normally pivotal.

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