With the increase of more and more diverse social needs, many people are increasingly facing extremely complex situations and environments in their work and study. Under many conditions, individual power alone is not enough for one to completely handle all sorts of complex problems and take practical and effective actions. Therefore, the importance of teamwork has to be emphasized.
The so-called team, is a group of people who are complementary to each other in talents, work in harmony, and hold responsibility for a shared goal. How can we improve our teamwork skills?
- Foster communicational and presentation ability.
In a highly efficient team, active communication between team members represents a significant link in cooperation. If you are not able to communicate with others, no one will ever understand or support you even if you have great ideas. Therefore, we need to focus on the fostering of good communicational skills by taking every opportunity to train our presentation skills and actively convey our understandings and opinions.
- Cultivate an active personality.
We should not wait passively to be told on how to act by team members. Rather, we should actively take the initiative to understand what the team wants us to do, what should we do and then make thorough plans to achieve the goal with all-out effort.
- Develop a sense of responsibility.
In team cooperation, everyone’s performance has to do with the performance of the entire team. Each member of the team is connected with the whole team. Only with responsibility, can an individual do one’s best to best finish his/her own part. In a team, if someone is irresponsible, or would not like to complete his/her own tasks, the entire team will be implicated. Therefore, responsibility represents an indispensable quality in teamwork.
- Develop a holistic perspective
Teamwork is not the opposite of individuality. Yet individual behaviors have to be in accordance with the actions of the team. A member of a team should have a holistic perspective and give consideration to the needs of the team. A holistic perspective requires team members to help and take care of and cooperate with each other, in order to strive for the goal of the team through joint effort.
Thank you very much for the tips. It is helpful. I also work in a team and I have to admit it gets hard at times 🙂 People are different they do use other ways to complete the tasks. I think for me the best is the digital way. I believe something like kanbantool.com could really help my team 😉 but not everybody thinks the same way.