Teamwork is a fundamental skill necessary for success in today’s ever evolving workforce. Very few jobs exists where a person works entirely alone. In almost all careers, people work alongside others to accomplish a shared goal. Since most jobs require many types of interaction, teamwork is a highly crucial soft skill to possess. If a person works well with others, that tells an employer that the employee is valuable, and many employers work hard to retain valuable employees.
In this course, you will learn about why working with others is important, how you can be an effective team member, characteristics of great teams, and the multitude of roles people play on a team.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Define teamwork and its purpose.
• Recall the 6 P’s, or key traits, that make a team effective.
• Describe the characteristics of an effective team.
• Identify team roles and what default role you tend to take on.
Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.
Please note that there are no refunds for open entry courses.
Textbooks and Materials
All materials are supplied within the online course.
Instructors
Veronica O. White
vwhite@goodwilldenver.org
Veronica O. White is the Work Skills Instructor for Goodwill Industries of Career Connection Center at Stapleton. She is responsible for providing job readiness/preparation courses and job coaching at the Center and is a Certified Résumé writer responsible for matching at-risk adults with employment or volunteer placements. Veronica is a leader who is able to work with a diverse community, passionately and effectively. She has her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia College. Veronica has volunteered in the City of Aurora as a member and chair with the Aurora Human Relations Commission, and Vice President of the Western Region with the National Association of Human Right Workers. For her dedication and time, Veronica has been recognized with various awards including the Torch Bearer Award from the Human Relations Commission at the City of Aurora, Outstanding Staff Award from the University of Denver and recognition for Outstanding Service from former Mayor Stephen Hogan as well as a plethora of thank you cards for participants. Veronica is driven by giving back to her community, advocating and uplifting others and dotting on her four grandchildren who are known as her “four heartbeats.”
