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Teamwork Skills

Your willingness to understand a variety of viewpoints and work with others, often to achieve a common aim.

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Sharing ideas and taking on responsibility are all part of a collaborative approach to completing a task. Being able to work alongside others, being flexible, delegating, sharing ideas and adapting to new information are all key aspects of teamwork skills. Understanding more about how you operate in a team situation, and what your role might be within the team, can help you achieve your goal.

You will find that your work and how you work with others can also contribute to the overall goals of a common aim.

Develop your teamwork skills

Where can you improve your teamwork skills at UCL?

Join a club or society

Be part of a club or society within the Students’ Union and further develop your teamwork skills. Take on a role within a committee and contribute to the operations and success of the wider group or be a part of a team through UCL’s Sport & Fitness activities. The Students Union also offer a variety of skills sessions such as ‘Successful Team Working’.

Clubs and societies directory

Sport and fitness activities at the Union

Students' Union UCL skills sessions

UCL’s Volunteering Services Unit partners with more than 400 local charities to promote their volunteering opportunities. Use the Volunteering Service’s skills explorer to find volunteering opportunities where you can develop new skills and build on existing ones. It’s a great tool to use in conjunction with your wider career planning.

Search volunteering opportunities

Use digital tools to expand teamworking skills

Attend a trainer-led session or take part in an online course to learn a new skill. From Mentimeter-improving feedback and interaction to using online whiteboards to encourage collaboration, you can learn how stronger digital skills positively impacts your teamwork ability.

ISD Digital Skills Development

Use LinkedIn Learning to grow your skillset

LinkedIn Learning has a huge range of video courses supporting learning in software, creative and business skills – all free to UCL staff and currently enrolled students. Access LinkedIn learning content to build your team-working skills.

Access LinkedIn Learning

Develop your entrepreneurial skills and startup ideas with others

Work alongside others while learning how businesses operate. Get hands on practical teamwork skills experience by attending the 1 day Imagine: Business idea generation boot camp where you will be able to understand more about the value of a good team and evaluate your own personal strengths.

UCL Innovation & Enterprise

Employer-led Skills Sessions

Attend an Employer-led Skills session on Teamwork where you hear directly from employers about how to develop this skill. You could also try coming to a Mock Assessment Centre where you can practice solving problems and working on case studies in a team to gain experience on what it is like to work with others to achieve a common goal.

Employer-led skills sessions

Learn a new language

Learn a language and make connections with others within the Centre for Languages and International Education (CLIE). Try an evening language class or a summer course. Developing your language skills will better enable you to work on international, multi-lingual teams, and to broaden your understanding of different cultures and ways of working.

Language courses

Widening Participation

Become a programme mentor, or an ambassador with the UCL Widening Participation Office. Develop your teamwork skills by working with different audiences. UCL students who are involved in WP activities receive appropriate training and gain experience of working with young people. 

Widening Participation

Develop your teamwork skills as a researcher

Expand and develop your teamwork skills through the UCL Doc Skills Programme which is open to all postgraduate researchers at UCL. The UCL Doc Skills Programme is open to all postgraduate researchers at UCL. You’ll find more information on all of the courses available.

UCL Doctoral Skills Development Programme

You will also be able to browse the scheduled events for researchers and those for doctoral students.  Research students can also access courses mapped to the Researcher Development Framework (RDF) and access one-to-one advice, practice interviews and workshops tailored to researchers.

Prepare your examples

Ask yourself:

What did you like about working in a group?

What did you learn from a particular situation involving others?

What roles have you adopted within a team? Can you describe what you learnt?

Next steps:

Need some support on how to structure your answer relating to teamwork for an interview?

Visit our Interview Skills page. Here you can find out more about how to structure your answer and demonstrate your skills along with many more resources that will help you prepare.

How to demonstrate your skills in an interview

If you have written a draft application for any type of opportunity, our team can provide personalised practical tips and advice to help you better understand how recruiters will shortlist your application, and how you can best demonstrate your motivation and your most relevant skills/experience.

 Get one-to-one advice

The employer perspective – Vodafone:

Teamwork is integral to professional life in any organisation. At Vodafone, it is one of the core employee ‘Spirit’  behaviours that drive our business and operations on a day-to-day basis. This skill encompasses a range of soft skills including the ability to work with others to get things done together, influencing, communication, and being able to empathise with and understand your stakeholders and colleagues. In large, global organisations, like Vodafone, teamworking is a skill that comes into practice daily as you interact with colleagues not just in your direct team, but cross-functionally and across other countries and cultural backgrounds too. 
“Teamwork is integral to professional life in any organisation. At Vodafone, it is one of the core employee ‘Spirit’  behaviours that drive our business and operations on a day-to-day basis. This skill encompasses a range of soft skills including the ability to work with others to get things done together, influencing, communication, and being able to empathise with and understand your stakeholders and colleagues. Employees that display a good teamworking skill, are often viewed as high performers as the skill is seen to be a key factor in meeting business objectives and driving growth. In large, global organisations, like Vodafone, teamworking is a skill that comes into practice daily as you interact with colleagues not just in your direct team, but cross-functionally and across other countries and cultural backgrounds too. Teamwork is integral to professional life in any organisation. At Vodafone, it is one of the core employee ‘Spirit’  behaviours that drive our business and operations on a day-to-day basis. This skill encompasses a range of soft skills including the ability to work with others to get things done together, influencing, communication, and being able to empathise with and understand your stakeholders and colleagues. Employees that display a good teamworking skill, are often viewed as high performers as the skill is seen to be a key factor in meeting business objectives and driving growth. In large, global organisations, like Vodafone, teamworking is a skill that comes into practice daily as you interact with colleagues not just in your direct team, but cross-functionally and across other countries and cultural backgrounds too. Teamwork is integral to professional life in any organisation. At Vodafone, it is one of the core employee ‘Spirit’  behaviours that drive our business and operations on a day-to-day basis. This skill encompasses a range of soft skills including the ability to work with others to get things done together, influencing, communication, and being able to empathise with and understand your stakeholders and colleagues. Employees that display a good teamworking skill, are often viewed as high performers as the skill is seen to be a key factor in meeting business objectives and driving growth. In large, global organisations, like Vodafone, teamworking is a skill that comes into practice daily as you interact with colleagues not just in your direct team, but cross-functionally and across other countries and cultural backgrounds too.