2023 Volume 71 Issue 3 Pages 223-236
In the present study, female university students were given training based on a program for improving teamwork competency in order to examine whether their advanced skills improved in relation to the contents of the training and to determine the timing of any changes in their basic and advanced skills. The experimental conditions were: (a) communication ability sessions and team-oriented ability training sessions, plus backup ability sessions (n=25), (b) communication ability sessions and team-oriented ability training sessions, plus monitoring ability sessions (n=19), and (c) no training (n=76). All participants' skills were measured before the training, at the end of the basic skills sessions, and after the completion of the training. The results showed that although the participants' scores for the sub-skills did not improve at the end of the basic skills session, they did improve after the end of training, except for the scores on assertiveness and relationship-building skills. The results for the advanced skills sessions suggested the possibility of improving not only the target skills but also basic skills related to the sessions' content and advanced skills other than the target skills. The students' decoding and encoding basic skills improved after they had learned specific usage scenarios in the advanced skills sessions. These results suggest that there may have been a bidirectional relationship between basic skills and advanced skills, that is, they may have influenced each other.
