Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.
Sample Behaviors
- Listen carefully to others, taking time to understand and ask appropriate questions without interrupting.
- Effectively manage conflict, interact with and respect diverse personalities, and meet ambiguity with resilience.
- Be accountable for individual and team responsibilities and deliverables.
- Employ personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others.
- Exercise the ability to compromise and be agile.
- Collaborate with others to achieve common goals.
- Build strong, positive working relationships with supervisor and team members/coworkers.
Skills Examples
- Delegation
- Leadership
- Following
- Coaching
- Motivation/empowerment
- Persuading
- Negotiating
- Conflict resolution
- Understanding group dynamics
- Accountability
- Cooperation
- Brainstorming
- Debating
- Providing constructive feedback
- Meeting facilitation
- Creating an agenda
- Consensus building
Action-words that describe this skill
- Collaborate
- Integrate
- Develop
- Communicate
- Adapt
- Advise
- Moderate
- Support
- Volunteer
Resources
- Undergraduate Research
- Capstone projects
- Athletic teams
- Participating in student organizations
- Community service events
- Being a part of a musical ensemble, a theatre production, an academic team such as Model U.N, Debate Team