Section I
Overview: Teamwork denotes a group of individuals working to achieve one goal or purpose. Each person brings his or her skills/abilities in a concentrated way and matches it up with others abilities, to attain a desirable result.
Purpose: Teamwork improves skills of communication, coordination and in some way propels each person in the team to realize the bigger picture, in which personal dreams reflect collective wants. Confidence or trust is crucial for keeping the team together, particularly via failures. Downfalls are inevitable, though how a team survives, copes, as well as paves a winning way is where its strength lies. Teamwork results in a better learning, healthy competition, immense job satisfaction, and work distribution.
Section II
- Teamwork is not just reflected within the team's win, though within personal development. A team within its true sense may not be established within a day, each member needs to understand and learn one another, and personal limitations.
- Although the purpose of teamwork is to share opinions and raise productivity, ineffective communication within members may sidetrack the whole effort. Effective communication requires establishment of ground rules to maintain all members updated, avoid confusion, as well as accomplish the task with ease.
- Ineffective communication makes teams collapse. Effective communication seeks views from every member of the team so they feel valuable members of the team. Proper communications establish trust within team members, provides motivation, as well as gives rationale why work must be performed in a certain manner. Moreover, effective communication helps avoid and resolve conflict. Effective communication requires posting decisions in strategic positions where all member of the team can read them.
- In teamwork, responsibilities and priorities may change instantly. Training members of the team to accomplish the work of others may be valuable in teamwork; becoming flexible assists to establish appreciation for every part of the team.
