YOCOMO - Collaborating in Teams skills - European Training Strategy

Collaborating in teams

…means that youth workers contribute to team work and maintain good working relations with everyone involved with the project. Youth workers motivate and support colleagues in achieving given objectives. This competence area also includes systemic cooperation and responsibility in an international context.

The single skills are summarised in different headlines that illustrate what “collaborating in teams” means for youth workers skill-wise. The “cluster headlines” do not name skills as such; these can be found through clicking on the lists.

Roles and responsibilities have to be shared within a team. + -

Therefore, skills are needed to:

master methods and techniques that support a clear and fair division of such roles and responsibilities
match team members’ competences to the objectives of the activity
match team members’ competences to the young people’s profiles

Cooperation and collaboration are essential for good team work. + -

Youth workers need skills to:

organise and apply teamwork based on principles of non-formal-learning
be able to work with various approaches, e.g., co-vision, supervision, collegial feedback
be able to foster collaboration among team members

Working together in a team is intense: challenges, feelings and crisis may occur. + -

This requires an ability to:

deal well with crisis/conflict in the team
deal with emotions
feel and show solidarity with people with different values, beliefs and worldviews

Youth workers are themselves continuously learning and developing. + -

They benefit from skills to:

develop a continued learning plan for themselves

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