Working with Others
Working with others is the ability to effectively interact, cooperate, and collaborate with other people in order to complete tasks and achieve common goals. It elevates the success of everyone in solving a problem or realizing an opportunity. We can use this skill when working as a member of a team or jointly with a partner through understanding and cultivating the group's culture and values. By doing so, there must be effective joint planning and decision-making, negotiating and compromising, expressing your opinions and ideas while respecting those of others, and being flexible in terms of roles such as when to be a leader and when to be a teammate and seek a team approach. These skills are necessary and vital in keeping group members connected and moving toward the shared goal.
The topic "teamwork" was highly stressed throughout my time in the Freshman Leadership Program. This action was exercised during the Rope Course, Thanksgiving Dinner, and Imagination Destination. I believed that teamwork was definitely important when doing the Rope Course. This was the first activity we did as a whole program together. At the time, I barely knew anyone so it was hard to build on teamwork, but eventually it did happen. The weekend before the FLP Rope Course, I had already attended a rope course event with a different program so I thought I was prepared for the rope course again. However, I was definitely wrong. I'm terrified of heights so walking across a wire is definitely not my thing. I was scared throughout most of the sections, but my fellow flp'ers made it possible for me to complete the course. My group lend me a hand, made me feel safe, gave me the encouragement I needed, and most importantly, they believed in me. We all gave each other the support we needed to complete the task. Without the teamwork, there was no way we could have finished the course. This made me realize that my FLP family is a great support system and cohesive unit. Not only did I learned that communication is the key to a successful teamwork, but also it is all right to fail because failing enables us to learn and grow.
The next activity that all of the flper's had to work together on was the annual Thanksgiving dinner. Every year, the Freshmen Leadership Program put on a charity dinner for the Creighton community, which will benefit Precious Memories. Precious Memories is a local child-care facility for many children of low socio-economic families, and most of the children's parents cannot afford child-care. Grandma Verna takes these children in regardless, and pays for most of the necessities for these kids out of her own pocket. All of the proceeds from the Thanksgiving dinner will be donated to help them. In order to make the charity dinner another successful one, all the flp'ers had to work together. There were different committees that had several tasks to complete. I was the head committee of decorations. My committee worked along with the setting-up committee. Alyssa, who was the set up committee head, discussed about how we wanted the dinner to look like. Then, we discussed with our committees about ideas for the centerpieces. Since we did not have much to work with, we had to call local stores for donations. Alyssa and I had to delegate out tasks for our committees to do such as calling different stores in the area for donation in terms of flowers, crafts, gift cards, etc. Our committees made cornucopias out of construction paper, a poster board about Precious Memories, and a Thanksgiving tree. On the day of the dinner, we adorned the tables by setting up the utensils, plates, and centerpieces. With great cooperation and collaboration, the committees worked really hard to make the dinner amazing.
A great team includes working with others effectively in accomplishing the same goals. "TEAM stands for together everyone achieves more." Working along with others matters because it gives motivation, accelerated learning, improved efficiency, and better interpersonal skills.
Working with others is the ability to effectively interact, cooperate, and collaborate with other people in order to complete tasks and achieve common goals. It elevates the success of everyone in solving a problem or realizing an opportunity. We can use this skill when working as a member of a team or jointly with a partner through understanding and cultivating the group's culture and values. By doing so, there must be effective joint planning and decision-making, negotiating and compromising, expressing your opinions and ideas while respecting those of others, and being flexible in terms of roles such as when to be a leader and when to be a teammate and seek a team approach. These skills are necessary and vital in keeping group members connected and moving toward the shared goal.
The topic "teamwork" was highly stressed throughout my time in the Freshman Leadership Program. This action was exercised during the Rope Course, Thanksgiving Dinner, and Imagination Destination. I believed that teamwork was definitely important when doing the Rope Course. This was the first activity we did as a whole program together. At the time, I barely knew anyone so it was hard to build on teamwork, but eventually it did happen. The weekend before the FLP Rope Course, I had already attended a rope course event with a different program so I thought I was prepared for the rope course again. However, I was definitely wrong. I'm terrified of heights so walking across a wire is definitely not my thing. I was scared throughout most of the sections, but my fellow flp'ers made it possible for me to complete the course. My group lend me a hand, made me feel safe, gave me the encouragement I needed, and most importantly, they believed in me. We all gave each other the support we needed to complete the task. Without the teamwork, there was no way we could have finished the course. This made me realize that my FLP family is a great support system and cohesive unit. Not only did I learned that communication is the key to a successful teamwork, but also it is all right to fail because failing enables us to learn and grow.
The next activity that all of the flper's had to work together on was the annual Thanksgiving dinner. Every year, the Freshmen Leadership Program put on a charity dinner for the Creighton community, which will benefit Precious Memories. Precious Memories is a local child-care facility for many children of low socio-economic families, and most of the children's parents cannot afford child-care. Grandma Verna takes these children in regardless, and pays for most of the necessities for these kids out of her own pocket. All of the proceeds from the Thanksgiving dinner will be donated to help them. In order to make the charity dinner another successful one, all the flp'ers had to work together. There were different committees that had several tasks to complete. I was the head committee of decorations. My committee worked along with the setting-up committee. Alyssa, who was the set up committee head, discussed about how we wanted the dinner to look like. Then, we discussed with our committees about ideas for the centerpieces. Since we did not have much to work with, we had to call local stores for donations. Alyssa and I had to delegate out tasks for our committees to do such as calling different stores in the area for donation in terms of flowers, crafts, gift cards, etc. Our committees made cornucopias out of construction paper, a poster board about Precious Memories, and a Thanksgiving tree. On the day of the dinner, we adorned the tables by setting up the utensils, plates, and centerpieces. With great cooperation and collaboration, the committees worked really hard to make the dinner amazing.
A great team includes working with others effectively in accomplishing the same goals. "TEAM stands for together everyone achieves more." Working along with others matters because it gives motivation, accelerated learning, improved efficiency, and better interpersonal skills.