Skills Helpful in Group Work - Study Notes for LDT3102

This study material discusses the skills helpful in group work such as communication, problem-solving, time management, listening, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills. It explains the importance of these skills and how they contribute to effective teamwork. The notes also highlight the significance of the topic and its relevance in the current scenario. The subject is Study Skills (LDT3102).

SKILLS HELPFUL IN GROUP WORK
INTRODUCTION
Teamwork is one of the most important
skills that helps individuals in working
together as team for achievements of
common goals.
This skill is important in recent
scenario, as company have number of
employees with diverse skills,
knowledge and capabilities.
IMPORTANCE OF SELECTED TOPIC
The topic of “Skills helpful in group work” is important to study as every
employer likes to hire employees that have skills to work in team rather than
individual.
So, study related to the topic will help me in understanding the necessary skills,
capabilities that I require to work in group.
SKILLS HELPFUL IN GROUP WORK
 In order to work in group, there are range
of skills that is required by an individual
such as;
 Communication
 Interpersonal
 Listening
 Problem solving
 Time management and many others.
Time management: It can be stated that working in group require that
all the accountability and responsibilities are equally distributed
among the team member. So, each of them complete their task in
limited time frames (Brock, McAliney and Ma, 2019).
Listening: This is also skills that is required to work in group as
through listening other point of view, idea, other people feel a crucial
part of the team. It like to share its creative and innovative idea that
could be used to attained the set objective.
Critical thinking skills: To work with group of team, the person
needs to have good critical thinking skills so that it can develop
creative and differentiate ideas or take more informed decision
(Reising and et.al., 2017).
Interpersonal skills: It is last and foremost skills that is required to
be present in person for working in group as it help the person in
building strong relationship with other individuals.
REFERENCES
Reising, D. L and et.al., 2017. An
analysis of interprofessional
communication and teamwork skill
acquisition in simulation. Journal
of Interprofessional Education &
Practice, 8, pp.80-85.
Driskell, T., Salas, E. and Driskell, J. E.,
2018. Teams in extreme
environments: Alterations in team
development and
teamwork. Human Resource
Management Review, 28(4).
CONCLUSION
From the above posters, there are crucial
information that can be concluded
pertaining to skills that needs to be
present in person to work in group.
Communication: It is important group working
skills that helps in effective sharing of information
from one individuals to another.
Problem solving skills: It is another significant
skill that is required by the person to work in group
as there are number of problem or issue that are
face by team member (Cronin, L and et.al., 2021).

NOTES
INTRODUCTION
So individuals through having team working skills can coordinate with others, by avoiding chance of conflict and confusion to
maximum extend. Moreover, group working is important because a particular individual is not enough to complete all task in firm
so people with different capabilities need to be motivated to work in team to accomplish the goals. This is a poster which contain
detail related to “Skills helpful in group work” so that person can work in team for attainment of desired outcome.
IMPORTANCE OF SELECTED TOPIC
Thereby, I can take significant steps or set of action to improve them for having a bright future ahead. Therefore, all these has
motivated me to selected the topic of “Skills helpful in group work” to effectively complete my work in large organization.
SKILLS HELPFUL IN GROUP WORK
Person through devoting time and efforts to develop all these skills and capabilities is able to effectively work in group for
achievement of set objectives. So, the reason why all the above illustrated skills are necessary for group work can be illustrated as
follows:
1.Communication: So that they are clear about their respective roles and responsibilities and does not conflict among each other
about the task need to be completed. In another words, through developing open lines of communication, trust and positive
environment can be easily created among the team. Thus, it is the skills which will help in effective team working.
2. Problem solving skills: Due to different perspective or point of view, culture, taste and preferences there are conflict that exist
between the team. Therefore, in order to work in team, an individual must have capabilities to resolve particular problem through
identified different method that can be used as solution. It helps a person thinking out of the box in circumstances or challenges
situation. Thus it emphasis that person to work in team needs not have to focus on issue or negative outcome rather needs to find
better solution that can be used to achieve specific goals.
3.Time management: Scheduling of activities, prioritizing and delegating them to accomplish in specific time helps in
completion of task within the deadline. In order to develop time management skills, person needs to schedule activities and
monitor actual time take to complete specific task. Therefore, time management skills motivate people to coordinate with each
other rather that fight on different topic or aspects.
4. Listening: Furthermore, listening skills contribute in resolving the dispute happening between the team member that helps in
coordinating them to work together. Thus, listening skills will lead in building more collaboration among people as they give
importance to each other point of view (Driskell, Salas and Driskell, 2018).
5.Critical thinking skills: It will help in coordinating team member through describing them about particular decision taken and
the manner in which it contributed in attainment of end results or outcome. Therefore, to develop critical thinking skills,
individuals needs to review its previous experience, listen to other member thereby learn and take decision that are fruitful for all.
6. Interpersonal skills: Likewise, the team member through interacting with each other on daily basis are able to know about
themselves and others thus can easily coordinate towards the particular goal. In order to develop interpersonal skills, the person
needs to share its feeling, opinion with others as it helps in retaining the relationship and strong team.
Therefore, all these are significant skills that may acts as helpful in group work for individuals as it is able to understand the other
perspective or problem face by it thereby find alternative method that could be used to resolve the same.
REFERENCES
Cronin, L and et.al., 2021. Development and initial validation of the life skills ability scale for higher education students. Studies in Higher Education, 46(6).
pp.1011-1024.
Brock, S .E., McAliney, P. J. and Ma, C., 2019. 6. Toward More Practical Measurement of Teamwork Skills. In Discourses on Business Education at the
College Level (pp. 94-106). Academic Studies Press.

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