Importance of Team Work in Workplace.
1. What is a team?
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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
3.
4 Types of Employees
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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
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
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)
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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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, explained well and better to have a good team work in all the organizations where we work in our day to day life
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your feedback Rubinie
DeleteOverall, promoting teamwork can benefit both the organization and its employees.
ReplyDeleteThank you Amila!
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ReplyDeleteTeamwork is what drives the corporation to reach the set goals, so this is a very significant topic for the current corporate environment.
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