Teamwork means when two or more people work together to achieve a particular goal. In today's world, teamwork plays an important role in every field of business because everybody thinks that working with other people will explore your knowledge, ideas and it will bring out the best results. However, every coin has a flip side, as working in teams also have many demerits like unequal participation, conflicts between team members and many more. This blog will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams. If you want to know more about teamwork, read on to begin.
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If you'd like to know the Importance of Working in Teams, here's the video that tells you about that
Video on this topic:
Benefits and Importance of Working in Teams
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Benefits and Importance of Working in Teams video retrieved from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTKJf1_-120
Benefits and Importance of Working in Teams
Benefits and Importance of Working in Teams video retrieved from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTKJf1_-120
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Importance of Teamwork at Workplace
For the success of every organization and advancement of every employee, teamwork is essential. Understanding the essential role of teams is very essential for a business in order to develop in the workplace. The accompanying points can help you to know more about the effectiveness of teams at workplace:
1. Increases Efficiency:
When you are working in a team, you are working towards a common goal or vision. The entire procedure of your work turns out to be more proficient and whole methodology ends up being more capable. Having team members permits you to do the work quicker and more efficiently due to shared responsibilities. From business prospective, more teamwork will results in generating more revenue for the business which will be profitable for any business.
2. Generates More Ideas:
The biggest advantage of working in teams is the motivation and thoughts that can be generated through group discussions. When we are working in a group, we do ten times better than doing the task alone as in groups.We tend to share our own ideas and listen others ideas which helps both the organization and us. It will be beneficial for organization as the best idea will be come out for the growth of organization and we also came across many new ideas.
3. A Learning Experience:
As specified above, teamwork is critical in working environment as it unites persons from different cultures, foundations and level of experience. Projects that prefer teamwork acts as an open door for an employee to learn more and improve their efficiency. Learning from someone's else knowledge helps us to develop more skills in order to be successful. Henry Ford said that "Coming together is beginning, staying together is process and working together is success". Teams also helps individuals to increase their education and enhance their state of mind.
4. Helps In Enhancing Communication Skills:
Communication can only be effective if you understand how it can affect teamwork positively or negatively. When we communicate with group member, we become more interactive and came to know more about each other. Furthermore, poor communication will result in conflicts among team members and they will not be ready to work with each other. So, it is important to have good communication skills to eliminate the possibility of chaos and focus more on company tasks.
5. Shares the Workload:
Teamwork reduces our work pressure because we don't have to do all the work individually as it is shared among different members of the group. Every group member is assigned a responsibility which has to be completed in a given time period in order to be a successful team. Group work results in delegation of work because every employee will be doing less amount of work so that they can do work in an effective manner.
References:
Mary Ellen Guffey, Kathleen Rhodes & Patricia Rogin. (2011). Importance of teamwork in K. R. Mary Ellen Guffey, Business Communication: Process & Product (5th Canadian Ed.). ON: Nelson.
Laura Hutton, " Importance of Teamwork at Workplace". Retrieved from:
http://aib.edu.au/blog/teamwork-is-important-in-the-workplace/
Laura Hutton, " Importance of Teamwork at Workplace". Retrieved from:
http://aib.edu.au/blog/teamwork-is-important-in-the-workplace/
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
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Sunday, 29 May 2016
Why Teams should be formed?
Today's working environment is more team oriented. You can see even in colleges and universities most of the assignments and projects are to be done in teams in order to prepare young teens with good team working skills so that in their career they won't face any difficulty. All the teams are shaped to achieve a particular objective. Organizations wants to perform well at very less cost and the reasons why they form teams are as follow:
1. Faster Response:
At some point when immediate
action is required regarding any issue or to solve a problem, groups can act
more quickly than individuals.
2. Better Response:
Decisions made within groups
have more accuracy and are more effective because each group member gives different
ideas and viewpoints.
3. Increases Productivity:
Team members often take the
steps that are beneficial and can easily involves chances to improve efficiency
of the business. Each member of the team suggest different ideas according to their experience level
4. Improves Employees Morale:
When an employee works in a group, automatically his morale boosts up. By observing that their team members are performing well, they also intend to do so.
5. Reduces risks for individuals:
For Decision making whole team is responsible. Thus, it reduces the possibility of risk for an individual.
6. Establish new problem solving ideas:
Working in group can help an organization to have new problem solving ideas because there will be brainstorming session among team members regarding problem and then best idea will be selected to solve that issue.
References:
Mary Ellen Guffey, Kathleen Rhodes & Patricia Rogin. (2011). Why Teams should be formed ? in K. R. Mary Ellen Guffey, Business Communication: Process & Product (5th Canadian Ed.). ON: Nelson.
Saturday, 28 May 2016
Disadvantages of Working in Teams
As every coin has a flip
side, working in group also has many disadvantages. Convincing people to work
in a group is not easy and also takes up a lot of time. At the same time, if
everyone comes together to work towards a common goal, there is nothing better
than that. Here are some negative points of working in a group.
1.
Unequal Participation:
It is always possible in the groups
that each member may not contribute equal amount of work. Some may do less
amount of work and others may work hard. This imbalance in the work done, can bring about inconvenience between the group members. This will likewise cause
bitterness among team members and they will not be ready to work with each other.
2.
Intrinsic Conflicts:
At the point when number of individuals
begin to work in a team, contradiction is certain to emerge among them. Each
individual may have their own thoughts which could conflict with what the other
individual needs to recommend. Some individuals in a group may likewise think
that it’s hard to acknowledge recommendations or thoughts from someone else, as
they want others to acknowledge their thoughts. This conflict among team mates
will stop the flow of work and may cause loss to the entire organization.
3.
Easy to avoid work:
When working in a group especially a
large one, it is very simple for some individuals to keep themselves away from
the work load and want others to do the whole task.
4.
Time Consuming:
The entire procedure could be long, while
working in a group. It requires a considerable amount of time, since there is
requirement for agreement and co-operation from all individuals from the group.
References:
Sravani, 2015
“Disadvantages of working in teams” retrieved from:
Friday, 27 May 2016
Tips to Improve Teamwork
Working in groups is not always easy because of many reasons such as unequal participation and conflicts among team members. Most of the people had bad experience while working in teams. Well, talking about me, I had a great experience while working in a team. At school, I was assigned a team project and it was worth 25% of my overall grade. All my team members were very hardworking and they paid their full attention towards our project which helps us in attaining a good grade. Here I would like to list some tips that I used in my team project to make it a success.
1. Make every team member feel valued: Success as a team can only be
possible when each team member is aware of their importance. All team members
should be involved in all tasks and decision makings.
2. Facilitate conversation,
idea sharing and brainstorming: There should be better communication skills
among all the group members in order to work comfortably with each other. There
should be some rooms where team members can share their ideas and had a
brainstorming session with each other.
3. Recognize and
reward good teamwork: It is always the responsibility of the team leader to
reward the team when their goal is accomplished. By doing so team members will
feel motivated and they will contribute more in future.
4. Avoid Gossips:
Support and respect one another, never undermine with petty jealousy, prejudice
and gossips because it may cause conflicts among team members and they will not
work with each other which might affect organization’s success.
References:
Catherine Capozzi, “Ways to Improve Teamwork at Workplace.” Retrieved from:
Evin O'Keeffe,
2015, “10 Ways to strengthen team relationships.” Retrieved from:
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