Can you imagine yourself working on a project alone at the office and no one there to support
and assist you? Definitely not! Today, teamwork has been widely embraced by businesses, so if
you want to succeed in your career,it's very important to be team player.
Team work is not a modern phenomenon. It has been part of the human experience since the early
days of nomadic hunter-gatherers. Our early ancestors
were successful beacuse they teamed up to hunt and gathered together for safety. In recent times,
teamwork is frequently referred to tas a "concept"in the management jargon. Being a good team
player is seen to be important, if not more so, than having a skill.
Teamwork is defined as an activity or a set of interrelated activities done by more than one
person to meet a common goal. The following example illustarets the importace of putting together
a team in order to get things done efficiently in a commpany
A telephone company lands a big contract and asks Project Manager Julia to develop a team of
professionals to install the equipment. She looks overthe names of technicians availble and
carefully picks out four people according to their talent, skill and attitude. Roberto is first
on the list beacusehe is a great team player.He is an excellent communicator,and is not afraid
to come up with ideas. Even better, if his ideas are turned down, he doesn't complain. Yolanda
comes second. She konws how to keep the prject under budget and her cheerfulness will make
everybody happy, even when they don't like her budget figures. Sam and Henry are nexdt on the
list. They are the best in the business when it comes to laying lines and making the connections.
Because Julia has collected a group of people with different but speciffic skills, her team is
likely to be successful and the work will be efficiently completed
We can see that teamwork can benefit companies as well as individuals in many ways. It is no
doubt that effective teamwork yields efficiency which
contributes to the overall success and growth of a company or organization in a competitive workld.
Employesss tend to learn and grow faster in a team,
beacuse teamwork helps individuals to complement each other's weaknesses with their strengthe.
When there is a continuity of interaciton between team meambers, employees often bulid a strong
emotional bond and a sense of group-belonging. As a result, effective teamwork improves job
satisfaction as well as performance.
Next time your team starts with a project, remember the motto:"Together Everyone Achieves More".