Use this job aid as a reminder of the tips and strategies for improving communication, cooperation, and trust when building team cohesion.
Communicating within your team

• Create a sense of partnership.
• Express your desire to work as a team.
• Assume good intentions.
• Don't retaliate.
• Move forward.
• Talk to each other.
• Get to know one another.

Promoting cooperation

• Put the team's needs first.
• Accept unpleasant tasks with a positive attitude.
• Discourage competition.
• Be proactive in finding ways to help the team.
• Consider the team's success as your own.
• Encourage others to adopt a collaborative approach.

Building trust

• Be supportive of your teammates.
• Acknowledge their skills and their contributions.
• Show you trust your teammates by involving them.
• Help teammates learn new skills.
• Give others responsibility and let them make decisions.
• Be truthful when communicating.
• Take responsibility for your actions.
• Share responsibility for the actions of your teammates.
• Act consistently.
• Follow through on promises.
• Say what you mean and mean what you say.
• Give and receive constructive feedback.
• Admit mistake.
• Perceive everyone's mistakes, including your own, as team mistakes.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• "Walk the talk."