Importance of Team Work in Workplace.

1.    What is a team?

            

                                                     Figure 1: Teamwork

 

                                                        Video: (ViVa4ever, 2011)

 

2.    Who is a Team Member?

 

A person who is actively involved to his/her group in order to fulfil the allocated tasks and achieve the goals are called as a “Team Member”. The main duty and responsibility of a team member is achieving organizational success together and they eventually share the responsibilities all along the journey until they all reach the expectations of the employer (Dreepaul, 2021)

 

3.    4 Types of Employees

 

Video 01:   (Australia, 2015)

 

4.    Why Teamwork at Workplace is Important? (Management)

 

4.1. New Ideas

Working with a diverse group always reveal new, fresh ideas. According to the today’s competitive business environment such ideas are invaluable. The different ages, backgrounds, skill sets and level of experience of team members means that there is a unique perspective. When there is a safe space where individuals can work together as a team without the fear of criticism, new ideas and perspectives will start to flow.

4.2.Improved Efficiency

 If an employer expect efficiency in a workplace, employer should create a workplace where employees work together which leads employer to delegate duties into more manageable ways which is expected to complete faster. It ensures that the employees with the most skills is working on the most suitable place.

4.3.Better Quality

 When an employer is expecting a quality of the assigned work from an individual, it may could be too much for an individual. But, when teamwork is imposed, employer can get the best that everyone has to offer.  

4.4. Higher Morale

If an employer expects employees to feel better about themselves and the job what they are occupied with, employees need to have the freedom to work together. When a teamwork is priority, employees feel that their work is valued, they can contribute to a successful offer and they have something to offer which boosts the morale makes every aspect of an organization a better.

 

4.5. More Learning Opportunities

When employees work as a team it allows them to see the success and failure of others in a supportive environment and it helps employees to learn from others.

4.6.Faster Innovation

When a team involved in solving a problem there could be different views, thoughts and plenty of options. Those options give them and the employer the opportunity for faster and more reactive innovation getting ahead in business and falling behind.

    4.7. Stronger Working Relationships

 When employees work together and succeed together, they build a strong work relationship. Those relationship make employees to have a mutual trust about each other. It generates communication, support, motivation and cooperation. Those are traits that every manager wants their employees to exhibit. You can nurture those traits by working as a team.

4.8. Healthy Competition

When there is teamwork in a workplace, it creates a healthy competition among the coworkers. it’s the type of competition that inspires your employees to do their best work all the time, overcome obstacles, reach out for more responsibility, and push your business to the next level.

5. Team Success, Inspiring Lessons from Nature
 

                                           Video:(Zaken, 2014)

 

6.    How to Improve Teamwork at Workplace (Herman)

 

                             

                                     Figure 2: How to improve Teamwork

6.1.Build Diverse and Inclusive Teams
 

The most important thing is to focus on creating diverse team who could work hard and achieve organizational goals. People with different backgrounds are more likely to bring diverse perspective and ideas to the table. Whereas if each team member has unique opinions, beliefs, background, etc. they will likely produce work that reflects more creativity and innovation.

6.2.Clearly define roles and responsibilities for every team member

It is important for each team member to know exactly what he or she is responsible for so that there is no overlap in projects.

6.3.Build trust within the team

It’s difficult to work productively with somebody that you don’t trust. For this reason, trust is a dire need if you want to lead a successful team. Trust between team members can flourish the organization during a short-time period.

6.4. Encourage clear, frequent communication

As the saying goes, communication is key! Though this sounds like basic knowledge, it’s often passed over when analyzing how to improve teamwork in the workplace. Clear and frequent communication will ensure that all team members are on the same page, leading to more accurate work being completed on a shorter timeline. Strong communication also helps to build trust between team members, thus improving the overall performance of the team.
 

 6.5. Give teams autonomy in decision-making

Trusting your team members with making their own decisions is important in building trust and improving teamwork. In order to keep team members engaged and working hard, it’s important to provide all members with the freedom to make their own decisions.

6.6. Manage team meetings wisely

Team meetings, however often they happen, should be used to plan, brainstorm, reflect, and share ideas. It’s important to keep team meetings focused and useful, in order to drive productivity

6.7. Don’t be afraid to reorganize team dynamics

You cannot be afraid to regroup and reassign tasks as necessary to improve the team dynamic and productivity. If team members are in roles in which they are not succeeding, this will negatively impact the entire team – in most teams, each person’s work is dependent on the work of one or more other team members’ work. Therefore, it’s important to ensure that all team members are in fitting roles that will allow them to use the skills they have and unlock potential for themselves and all team members.

 

6.8. Provide the team with learning opportunities

Providing learning opportunities will not only enhance teamwork skills, but will also increase employees’ engagement and job satisfaction. Workshops and qualified guest speakers from outside of the organization are a great way to ensure that all team members understand the importance of teamwork in the workplace as well as how to be an effective team member.

 

Conclusion:

 

Teamwork is highly essential for an organization to get succeed. If an employer is failing in managing teamwork among the employees, it leads to a drop of the organization. Hence, always an employer should concern about implementing and maintaining teamwork which benefits the organization in positive manner and uplift the quality of work. Team work is the key of success!

 

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Management, E. (n.d.). SLING. Retrieved from 11 Reasons Why Teamwork At The Office Is Important: https://getsling.com/blog/importance-of-teamwork/

ViVa4ever. (2011). Youtube. Retrieved from The meaning of TEAM. Together Everyone Achieves More !: https://youtu.be/o9mdHMtxOjY

Zaken, N. (2014). Youtube. Retrieved from Team success, inspiring lessons from nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqMl3m6Q5PY