The Importance of Building Teamwork

These days, our work moves at a quick pace and organizations are continuously expanding, we’re quickly bringing on new clients, and team members come and go. This provides a unique opportunity to create relationships, but the importance of building them often gets ignored. As a technical resource, we are often so focused on getting the next build or test run that we don’t invest the time to build teamwork. But if we do, it can help us improve productivity, create friendships, and even benefit our lives outside of work. But why is it so important? 
1. Synergy is the combination of individual strengths, skills and expertise, and the ability for those to make up another team member’s weakness. Synergy is the spirit of teamwork. When you work alone, you may develop your independence, but you also risk overload, burnout, and not having the best skillset for the job.

2. Creating a good support network is also important in a team due to the varied working ability of each team member. Some people are known for cranking work, undistracted, while others are good for listening, understanding, or supporting others. A strong team needs to create an environment promotes a positive working environment and cooperative attitude for all staff members. It’s important for group members help each other, reply on each other and build trust within the group.

3. Sharing workload helps members in a team complete more, together. And working together with the same goal helps member improve quality of work. The more easily people on a team work together, the better the results are. Moreover, working with others to coordinate schedules, meet deadlines and make decisions will strengthen the team’s interactions.

4. Enhancing communication is also key to success of the team. We need to share what we feel and what we need, in order to communicate it clearly and effectively. During the course of a project, discussing ideas and collaborating developer your own skillset as well as those of team members. Not only that facilitate an open discussion but each member of the team will also be adequately informed.

A successful team depends on not only mental attitude of the whole team but also the leadership skills of the team leader. Dwight D. Eisenhower said that “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to done because he wants to do it”.

Leaders help themselves and others do the right things by building a vision that solves complex problems, generates new ideas, coordinates individual activities towards a bigger goal, provide support to team members, gives people a sense of belonging, and helps people learn from each other. Leadership is also about mapping out where you need to go as a team; it makes working in a team more dynamic, exciting and inspiring.

When we combine a good leader with good teamwork, everyone benefits from a better working environment. Understanding the values of teamwork is critical to keep employees engaged, happy, and productive.

HoaLe

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