Are you good at working as part of a team?

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Such as in groups in school, or at work, or on field trips

I'm OK if everyone in the team has clear, defined roles. If it's a free-for-all, it's a nightmare! Either way I much prefer to work on my own, there's so much to think about with other people!

Not really. I often don't have ideas of what to do, so I end up not talking much. And if others are slacking, I'm not good at taking the lead.

Depends on the composition of the team and how big it is. But I have positive experience working in small teams both as in subordinate position (alto I need some freedom to function well) and as in leading one.

Team work sucks, period

My experience: either I get excluded from the group entirely and suffer the consequences of not contributing anything, or I end up doing most of the work myself, unbeknownst to whoever we’re doing it for, and everyone takes the credit (others probably take more, because, unlike me, they weren’t too busy and awkward to engage in social graces).

I enjoy doing teamwork at work because it makes me feel like a Sweet Pea in a pod of peas.

The last evaluation I had I was told that I excelled at being a team player. I was kind of surprised because I don't talk very much.

Nope. I'm always more silently observing than actively participating.

I prefer to work alone, quietly.

Sure if I am given a role to do. I can't just walk into a room and then be expected to pitch in if I am not told what task to do. Also it gets the job done faster so I am happy about that. in school I didn't have to do all the work so that was less stress for me and no trying to figure out how to do it and no blocks in my learning and that meant no anxiety.

I guess performing in a band counts as teamwork, and I'm not bad at that, these days, at least in the 2 groups I play with. Mostly I'm not good at teamwork though. We didn't get much of it at school - in those days education was mostly about the individual. I don't think I'd have done well. Anything that gets imposed, I tend to dislike, and in schools and workplaces one tends to get forced into teams, it's all rather prescribed. I also don't like hierachies, so unless the group is strongly egalitarian then I don't usually want any part of it. I didn't feel I did very well in a committee for a music club I joined, mostly because it wasn't very egalitarian, there were a few people dominating, and I never felt very clear about what my role was. I do much better when I'm just given an area of responsibility and am left to get on with it in my own way. I did slightly better in a herb-growing co-operative, but I never felt I really knew what was going on, and there were a few conflicts, I particularly didn't like it when decisions were made that I didn't agree with, and especially when the results of those decisions were poor. Nonetheless, there were a few times when we achieved good things together, and that was quite a buzz. I do have a high regard for the idea of co-operative working in a group, but apart from music, I've not found anything I really want to align myself with. Like I say, it seems rare that a team has a truly egalitarian spirit, and the other problem is that I have to really feel everybody in the team is competent, and that doesn't often happen.

As a team player, they want someone who is passive and quiet -- not an instigator or innovator.

I was liked as a manager, because I didn't play headgames with my subordinates. I just made things work.

I was disliked as a laborer, because my suggestions were taken as hubris.