Teamwork
Teamwork Offers Great Success
In every workplace people talk about team building and working as a team. Very few people understand what working as a team means, how to create that experience and how to develop an effective team. Many believe that if you create a very good team you could accomplish anything that is put in front of you. Team building can help people get to know each other, and it can create or increase trust in each other. Team building can also improve problem solving and decision making skills; however, team building alone cannot silence a complainer or improve an inept leader. Teamwork is defined in this society as a group of people working together to help complete a common goal (Harp, 2nd Ed.). This also means that it does not just depend on one person to do everything; they work together as a team no matter the situation. "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller. The most effective teamwork is when all the individuals in the group work together to achieve a common objective. No one person can do everything without the help of someone else. Teamwork is not the gathering of people together and telling then what to do and what not to do. In fact, it is the coming together of different personas and making them work towards a common goal. The people in the team achieve unity after exercises of forming, storming, norming, and performing. When the team practices forming they are not a group but simply individuals. When the team is storming is when the trust occurs throughout the team. Norming is where they find out the patterns of work. The last step is performing; this is where they start working together with leadership and agreement throughout the group (Groups and Teamwork, pg. 28). "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." Andrew
In every workplace people talk about team building and working as a team. Very few people understand what working as a team means, how to create that experience and how to develop an effective team. Many believe that if you create a very good team you could accomplish anything that is put in front of you. Team building can help people get to know each other, and it can create or increase trust in each other. Team building can also improve problem solving and decision making skills; however, team building alone cannot silence a complainer or improve an inept leader. Teamwork is defined in this society as a group of people working together to help complete a common goal (Harp, 2nd Ed.). This also means that it does not just depend on one person to do everything; they work together as a team no matter the situation. "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller. The most effective teamwork is when all the individuals in the group work together to achieve a common objective. No one person can do everything without the help of someone else. Teamwork is not the gathering of people together and telling then what to do and what not to do. In fact, it is the coming together of different personas and making them work towards a common goal. The people in the team achieve unity after exercises of forming, storming, norming, and performing. When the team practices forming they are not a group but simply individuals. When the team is storming is when the trust occurs throughout the team. Norming is where they find out the patterns of work. The last step is performing; this is where they start working together with leadership and agreement throughout the group (Groups and Teamwork, pg. 28). "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." Andrew