Student-Friendly Guide: Successful Teamwork

Peter Levin

Sep 2004 · McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

About this ebook

This lively, concise and to-the-point guide offers hints and practical sugestions to help you deal with the issues you face when working on a group project. It helps you to understand what goes on in project groups, to move forward in difficult situation, and to draw valuable lessons from the experience.

· How to share out the work

· How to transform your group into a team

· How to take decision

· How to deal with‘free riders’

· How to work constructively with someone you don't like

· How to make good use of your experience when applying for jobs

A must for every student working on a group project, and especially recommended if you have been put into a group, assigned a project and left alone to get on with it!

Ratings and reviews

I especially liked this very concise and detailed guide on university teamwork outlining and covering every possible case and possibility of academic teamwork malfunctioning and what its members can do to rectify it. It is very good to direct you on how to familiarise with other team members and to direct the group's activity into a productive and civilised interaction. Some cases it covers are even extraordinary humorous to consider, such as suggesting that 'I am now alone in a group of strangers, what do I do next?', since that needs to be explained based on the terms of friendship and the natural process of familiarisation, or that 'I prefer to only cooperate with some people - does that make me a bad person?', since that may be your right at work every time because your colleagues form professional or academic relationships.

About the author

Dr Peter Levin is an educational developer at LSE. One of his roles is that of teamwork tutor for students working on group projects. Prior to taking up his present position he lectured in social policy at LSE. He is author of Making Social Policy (Open University Press, 1997).