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While all of the previous 7 attributes are important you will still need some good interpersonal skills to help you build rapport with your new employer and your work colleagues. Most people tend to think of a time when they have worked closely with a group of people. While this is important it is even more so to recognise your contributions to the team and how this impacted upon the purpose of the team.
The definition of team is a group of individuals with complementary skills working together toward a common goal. Each set of skills and abilities helps the team work toward achieving the goal. Interpersonal relationships are such that the has the ability or processes to address conflict when it arises and to keep the overall goal in mind.
In exercise 8 think of some contributions and roles you have taken within a team and how they contributed toward the team achieving its task or tasks. How will you use these in a new work team?
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