ETHIO-ITALY Polytechnic College

Department: - Electrical

Occupation: -Level I

Done by: Nikodimos Endeshaw

Section : B

1. Advantages of Teamwork

A. Teams can divide a large project into smaller tasks: When teams can tackle a large project, then
everyone can take a smaller piece of the work instead of making one person try to do everything. If you
have a long list of steps that requires completion and deadlines that have zero flexibility, then a
collaborative effort helps you to get more accomplished in a shorter time.

B. Teams create brainstorming opportunities: When people have an opportunity to work together, then
they can address difficulties or problems with a project or task with different perspectives. You have
opportunities to brainstorm challenging situations with other people who have different experiences,
perspectives, and opinions so that you can come up with new solutions. This advantage makes it easier
to find the best steps forward when encountering an issue so that you can achieve success in the best
possible way.

C. Teamwork encourages more individualized accountability: Teams create a process where you can
have employees keep each other on their assigned tasks. It allows a manager or supervisor to focus on
their work while each member keeps themselves and everyone else accountable to the project. Shared
spreadsheets, collaborative documents, or regular meetings that require progress reports are all different
ways to encourage this advantage.

D. It creates a structure where mentorship gets encouraged: Teamwork creates a system where you can
have new workers paired with experienced ones to create mentorship opportunities. Instead of forcing
people to sit through training classes or throwing them directly into the fire with their responsibilities, this
advantage creates moments of guidance and leadership for everyone. It enables people to learn from and
emulate their seniors or superiors, creating confidence in new skills. This advantage includes reverse
mentorship opportunities. Many new employees have access to technologies and ideas that may not be
available to older workers. As one person passes along their experience, the other shows how the world
is evolving. That creates more strength for everyone.

E. Teamwork creates cross-training opportunities: Teamwork creates more moments where individual
members can cross-train one another to create new skills and strengths in time. This advantage makes it
easier to integrate more people into different roles as the scope of a project allows. It is a benefit that
creates depth and added flexibility because more people can cover vacant roles. You can prevent burnout
because there are more ways to provide time off, create vacation opportunities, and eliminate the need to
make people come in when they’re sick.

Disadvantages of Teamwork

A. Some personalities tend to dominate the conversation: Although leadership is a valuable skill that
every team can use to its benefit, some team members can have strong personalities that dominate
conversations and circumstances. When this dynamic occurs on a team, then it can become challenging
for other members to provide feedback or share opinions. It’s a disadvantage that eventually leads to
issues with team cohesion and cooperation, reducing chances at productivity instead of creating more of
them.

B. Teams can divide labor unequally in some situations: Group work is positive when it involves the equal
distribution of work and responsibilities. If each person can focus on tasks that reflect their strengths, then
productivity levels can rise dramatically. When an unequal division of labor occurs within a team, then it
might make it seem like one person doing the most work is treated equally to the individual doing the
least. When everyone earns equal credit when only a couple of individuals are managing all of the
responsibilities, then it can adversely impact the unity and purpose of the team. This disadvantage can
also lead to some workers feeling taken advantage of since they’re doing a majority of the work most of
the time. It can lead to the top performers deciding to leave because they feel like they’re being held it a
different standard.

C. Teamwork can encounter scheduling conflicts: Even with the significant technologies that we have to
support teams today, it can be a challenge to schedule a time when everyone can attend a specific
meeting. It is essential to determine whether the complications of scheduling the group work are as
valuable as the assignment of tasks to each member. You can even encounter task management issues
within this disadvantage because the duties of one member might run on an opposite schedule as the rest
of the team.

D. Some people may feel like they’re contributions are unwanted: Whether the feeling is real or perceived
doesn’t matter. When someone feels like they are unwanted by their team, then their contributions will
feel undervalued. This issue may cause them to stop offering ideas or encouraging innovation when their
suggestions might be the best of the group. Then the decreased creativity can spread out to the rest of
the team, producing inferior work that may get rejected upon delivery. This issue can also cause low
morale, impact passion, and cause people to begin working for themselves instead of the entire group.

E. Teams can create resource loss with their activities: Teams can sometimes lose focus collectively
because they’re looking too much at the big picture instead of the individualized steps needed to reach a
positive outcome. The planning stages that look at these specific roles can then waste money and
resources because the efforts go toward the end result instead of the staged outcome needed. Group
work can also create a lot of wasted time when trying to get moving on a project because there is
disagreement within the ranks. If there isn’t a consensus that can get reached, then it may be impossible
to create the results you want.

2. Responsibilities and duties Employees must identify understand and live up to their responsibilities and
duties in order for a workplace to function effectively. Responsibilities and duties may include Code of
Conduct, job description and employment arrangements, organization’s policy relevant to work role, skills,
training and competencies, supervision and accountability requirements including WHS, environmentally
sustainable working practices and team structures.

3. Interpersonal communication is the process of exchange of information, ideas and feelings between
two or more people through verbal or non-verbal methods. It often includes face-to-face exchange of
information, in a form of voice, facial expressions, body language and gestures. The level of one’s
interpersonal communication skills is measured through the effectiveness of transferring messages to
others. Commonly used interpersonal communication within an organization include daily internal
employee communication, client meetings, employee performance reviews and project discussions. In
addition, online conversations today make a large portion of employees’ interpersonal communication in
the workplace. Therefore, interpersonal skills are crucial for business success. Let’s now take a look into
why interpersonal communication is crucial for your career development and productivity in the
workplace.

A. Problem solving: Interpersonal communication skills are necessary because they allow people to
discuss problems and weigh the pros and cons of alternatives before coming up with the final solution.
For example, brainstorming exercises are situations in which interpersonal communication comes into
play as it is very important that everyone feels respected and free to share their voice, ideas and views.

B. Alignment with business goals: Poor communication between employers and employees can harm the
business in many ways. When managers and leaders are unable to clearly communicate tasks, workers
can quickly become frustrated and disconnected with the business goals. Moreover, many employees
say that their managers don’t give them clear directions and goals for their work.

C. Trust: Interpersonal communication skills are crucial for improving trust and workplace communication,
and all employees, especially business leaders, should therefore improve communication with their
employees.

D. Change management: Good interpersonal communication is very important during change

management efforts within organizations. Effective employee communication helps employees better
understand the change, align with it and collaboratively work towards implementing the change
successfully.
E. Company culture: Interpersonal relationships, especially when executed well, are important for an
organizational culture to thrive. When employees possess good interpersonal communication skills,
organizational culture becomes more synergic and positive. With bad interpersonal relationships, on the
other hand, negativity, confusion, and conflicts become inevitable. This ultimately ruins the work
environment, reduces employee productivity, and adversely affects the company's bottom line.

4. The four principles of brainstorming. These principles include:

- Quantity over quality. The idea is that quantity will eventually breed quality as ideas are refined,
merged, and developed further.

- Withhold criticism. Team members should be free to introduce any and all ideas that come into their
heads. Save feedback until after the idea collection phase so that “blocking” does not occur.

- Welcome the crazy ideas. Encouraging your team members to think outside of the box, and introduce
pie in the sky ideas opens the door to new and innovative techniques that may be your ticket for success.

- Combine, refine, and improve ideas. Build on ideas, and draw connections between different
suggestions to further the problem solving process.

Some of the advantages of brainstorming for businesses and individual productivity include:

- Brainstorming allows people to think more freely, without fear of judgment.

- Brainstorming encourages open and ongoing collaboration to solve problems and generate
innovative ideas.
- Brainstorming helps teams generate a large number of ideas quickly, which can be refined and
merged to create the ideal solution.
- Brainstorming allows teams to reach conclusions by consensus, leading to a better-rounded and
better informed path forward.
- Brainstorming helps team members feel more comfortable bouncing ideas off one another, even
outside of a structured session.
- Brainstorming introduces different perspectives, and opens the door to out-of-the-box innovations.
- Brainstorming helps team members get ideas out of their heads and into the world, where they can
be expanded upon, refined, and put into action.
- Brainstorming is great for team building. No one person has ownership over the results, enabling an
absolute team effort.

5. The key factors that influence employee performances are: Job Satisfaction, training and
development, employee engagement, goals and expectations, tools and equipment, moral and
company culture