Communication Skills and Meetings
Your success as a team will depend on your communication skills. Here are some resources to help you improve your interpersonal communication skills. The most important and most frequently neglected is listening.....
Introduction to Listening Skills
Listening Skills Worksheet (for practice)
Get your own copy of the book "People Skills" by Robert Bolton. For around $25 it will be the most valuable investment you can buy as a text book at University.
Guide for Taking Notes - how to take accurate notes with minimal effort.
Wasting time in meetings? Think your group meetings could take less time and accomplish more? Try this Guide to Meeting Skills.
Finding that other people don't listen to you in your group? First read the notes on listening skills so you will be able to tell when they are not listening. Then improve your technical knowledge so you will have more to contribute.
Read about some teamworking skills. Knowing what other members of the team want to achieve is the key to good teamwork. Also, it is worth knowing that most teams in real life have difficulties, and often include free-loaders. Knowing how to work with teams is a valuable career skill.
Finally, read what previous students have learned about communication skills and teamwork.
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