(Teamwork)

Teamwork is the word that is always placed around in the business area, and it is able to be defined as a group of people are efficiently working together in order to achieve a higher expectation and goal. When a new team is forming, all members from the team start to get know with each other. However, as everyone knows that they all have their distinct characteristics and ideas, therefore it will cause the existence of conflicts among each other in the group. This way, all team members need to put efforts together, and build a better team structure.

In a teamwork, each member has to take their own responsibility, hence they will get the opportunity to have a deeper understanding in what the group work is. “Teamwork in the workplace involves cooperation among workers” (Lewis, (n.d.), para. 3), which demonstrates that all workers are required to contribute fairly. In another word, managing and making sure that everyone receives the right amount of work are significant to the whole group, hence the leader has to consider about whether the work is distributed evenly or not (Knight, 2017, para. 3). Due to the fact that people would like to do the job which they are interested in, so the leader needs to hold a meeting before assigning the work. Under each member’s will, they are going to work harder to make the group preform effectively.

However, people who finish early can also assist others (Knight, 2017, para. 8), thus all members from the group are binding together, and the group can move to a higher-level stage. Furthermore, having a plan and making rules for the team are essential approaches for building an efficient team as well, so that everyone knows they “must devote time to it” and also complete it on time (Knight, 2017, para. 4). To illustrate, while rules have been established, it represents the existence of punishment as well. By following this, it leads people feel stress, which can also encourage them to start their responses.

As far as I am concerned, teamwork is always good for someone to learn about sharing ideas and accepting other’s ideas. A group of people to achieve same goals and expectations is much easier than people to achieve by themselves. From a business perspective, teamwork also teaches individual how to work and communicate well with others, and people cannot deny that being flexible is such an necessary skill in a business life. Overall, teamwork plays a significant role, but how to make team work better is the process that each member has to experience.

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References

Lewis, J. (n.d.). The Definition of Teamwork in the Workplace. Retrieved October 12, 2017, from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/definition-teamwork-workplace-36105.html

Knight, R. (2017, May 03). Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly. Retrieved October 13, 2017, from https://hbr.org/2016/11/make-sure-your-teams-workload-is-divided-fairly