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WHAT IS TEAMWORK IN A WORKPLACE?

What is a TEAM? It means Together Everyone Achieves More. Which translate to Comingtogether, sharing together, working together, and succeeding together. No one can whistle asymphony or piece of music. It takes an orchestra to play it. Working together or playingtogether result in teamwork. Therefore we can say that Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision or organizational objectives. Teamwork is the fuel that allowscommon people to attain uncommon results. Also, we could say that teamwork represents a setof values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those whoneed it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others. An Example of Teamwork is aChoir doing a piece song in a concert and a football team playing a championship. There is asaying that a path to greatness is working along with others. Tell me anyone one who hassucceeded with support or share effort and I will tell you his team mate.Teamwork can be a useful asset to an organization or act as a drawback if not instituted properlyin the organization. Teamwork can not exist in a workplace by merely pulling together someworkforce in a few days and called it a "team," but instead require time and fine tuningthroughout the team building process to be successful or as a result of careful planning, hardwork, and constant tuning of team processes on a continuous basis..To understand the concept of teamwork, one must first possess knowledge of the basic attributesthat create an effective team which are (1) a team is committed to a

common purpose

where allmembers are held equally accountable. Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team. and (2)the team should have a

small

number of members with

skills that are similar

and thesemembers should take an approach or strategy to completing their purpose with a unifiedapproach that is (combine effort). When the team is large there can be confusion and disorder.Research has shown that, highly intelligent members of team perform poorly in teams with lessintelligent members. This illustrates the importance of fitting teams with members that havesome transient similarities, but still some differences to stimulate unique ideas. Additionally, aneffective team is comprised of members that have a company culture capable of recognizing andvaluing the entire team's contribution to their overall goal.

The failure of team members to work together and share a common goal can cause the demise of the team and ultimately, group fallout. Increasing company profits may be the prime motive for many businesses when it comes to utilizing a team atmosphere, but the benefits expand to allowemployees additional leverage in being creative and fully utilizing their abilities.Teamwork is an important aspect that should be provided by both employers and employees. Intoday's work environment, the concept of working together to get an assignment done isimportant as air to man. Working after graduation from school for about 11 years now, I noticedthe ups and downs of working with co- workers, and it is hard to finish a task when you haveemployees who come to work to socialize instead of doing what they're paid to do.When a person is faced with co-workers who don't want to work, he or she ends up having to dowork that others fail to complete or start an assignment over because someone did not do it right.It can be stressful and downright disgraceful because not only does the department work ethicslook bad on the employees, but to the company as well.There are certain characteristics to remember by the employer and employee when knowing thevalues of teamwork. The most important factor in teamwork is(1)

foundation.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.(2)

Knowing which position each person is within a team can help co-workers provide thework they're strong in; that way assignments can be completed on time and without problems.

This will boost the moral of the worker. Their ego, self-esteem or personality is intact. They willfill belong, and happy to make their contribution without pulling back their resources. Theresources in this context include intellectual ability, physical strength or ability, personalequipment that could be useful to the completion of the work or task.(3)

Having respect for one another is also very important.

No one would want to work withsomeone that is rude and insensitive towards everyone in the office. Being able to showdiscipline and professionalism can provide imperative discussions that can help the work environment run smoothly.(4) Finally, if a problem arises in a department, don't hesitate to speak up on the issue. One of themain reasons co-workers failed to work as a team because people do not voice their opinions on