“Teamwork simply stated is less of me and more of us”. Sending a man to the moon is a walk in the park, if you believe in teamwork. NASA demonstrated this by example and in nature, ants carry out a simple act of hoarding food with teamwork. The crooked cookie jar or sometimes your imposing foot does little to stop their long trail, the ants trudge on effortlessly, any mishap quickly recovered. Wars are won only with teamwork; a one man army is a concept of a disillusioned mind. No man can achieve anything of great significance without the support pool of the people around him. A workplace too works on the same principle. The success of an organization is not governed by the idea, not governed by the fact that a lot of investment has gone into it, but governed only by the people who form the organization. Teamwork is what sets things rolling and gives them its necessary outcome. Here are some advantages of building teamwork at your workplace.
Importance Of Teamwork At Workplace
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Learning becomes a breeze, if you are learning with a team. A team comprises of old and new members and the old members help the younger toddlers in understanding and grasping techniques required on site. Mistakes are also avoided as you are warned by the older member about it.
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The best part about working in a team is that workload gets distributed among the team members. Each member has defined responsibilities and gets enough time to concentrate only on his work. Trouble shooting also becomes easy, as the members of the team help each other and combat bugs.
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The members of a team usually become friends for life. They are the people who you spend the maximum amount of time with which also includes those fun filled lunch breaks and tea breaks. With time you begin to share your joys and sorrows with them too and they are also invited to important family functions. The team becomes your extended family where every success is celebrated with jubilation and the responsibility for every drawback shared equally.
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A team also builds in healthy competition with every member trying to excel the other in a humorously nice way. People also assist each other in case of bugs faced by one of the team members. They look out for each other as at the end increased productivity is the main goal.
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If you are faced with a bottle neck situation or are planning to come up with something new and just can’t come up with a solution then in a team there is always someone around to give suggestions. The suggestions aid in giving a new perspective to things and help in enhancing your creativity. It sometimes also gives a better understanding of the problem at hand. It can also act as a stress buster as for a short while you are hearing out.
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If the people in your team are nice, then it garners job satisfaction. You feel content about your work and it motivated you to outperform and do better. A good team is like a home away from home, where you are as much a part of each others lives, as your immediate family.
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Meeting deadlines becomes an easier affair, as people are collectively working on a single project. More work is accomplished with more hands in a lesser timeframe.
