Collaborating successfully in teams
Means that the youth worker contributes to team work and maintains good working relations with everyone involved with the project. The youth worker motivates and supports colleagues in achieving given objectives. This competence area also includes systemic cooperation and responsibility in an international context
- promote communication & collaboration amongst the team members to nurture qualities & deal with resistance?
- identify diversity, strengths & weaknesses in the team?
- request and offer support where needed?
- deepen knowledge of particular topics/issues?
- coach colleagues – where possible and requested – based on the approach of non-formal learning?
- help build team spirit & trust?
- demonstrate empathy?
- act authentically?
- apply feedback techniques?
- allocate adequate resources & time to team building?
- steer collective and individual emotions in a positive direction?
- receive & express criticism in an open, respectful & constructive way?
- deal with frustration in a constructive manner?
- my knowledge about team work mechanisms in different contexts & of the possible outcomes of different approaches?
- my knowledge about my personal limitations & how to overcome them?
- my knowledge about coaching methods?
- my knowledge how to deal with emotions?
- my knowledge about conflict prevention and transformation?
- my knowledge about feedback techniques (how to give feedback, how to receive it, etc.)?
- my knowledge regarding individual vs. collective interests & focuses?
- me mastering methods and techniques that support a clear & fair division of roles and responsibilities?
- my ability to contextualise and conceptualise team work practices with the principles of non-formal learning?
- my ability to match team members’ competences to the objectives of the activity and to the young peoples’ profiles?
- my ability to foster collaboration among the team members?
- my ability to deal well with crisis/conflicts in the team?
- my ability to work with various approaches, e.g. co-vision, supervision, collegial feedback, and cooperation?
- my ability to develop a continued learning plan for myself?
- my ability to deal with emotions?
- willingness to take on tasks that are not normally a part of my role but that will ensure safety for the team and the group?
- my openness to & readiness for new challenges?
- my readiness for continued learning?
- my openness to different sources of learning?
- my awareness of my own competences?
- my awareness of how much others can teach me & of the principles of ‘to get and to give’?
- my readiness to reflect upon & rethink my own role?
- my readiness to ask for support and to admit personal limitations in the context of the activity/group?
- my readiness to support colleagues’ learning needs?
- my awareness that I/we are a role model, both as an individual & as a team?