Monday, August 18, 2008

Teamwork

Teamwork- Backbone of an Organization
Team work
Some things can be done individually, but for some, you would need a person or two to back you up. You cannot always have a mindset that you can get things done with your own two hands. Certain things are best done as a team.
This is where teamwork comes into the picture.
“A tight knit team is a group of competent individuals who care deeply about each other. They are fiercely committed to their mission, and are highly motivated to combing their energy and expertise to achieve a common objective”
Many people used the words team and group interchangeably, but there are actually a number of differences between a team and a group in real world applications. A number of leadership courses designed for the corporate world stress the importance of team building, not group building, for instance.
It is often much easier to form a group than a team. If you had a room filled with professional accountants, for example, they could be grouped according to gender, experience, fields of expertise, age, or other common factors. Forming a group based on a certain commonality is not particularly difficult, although the effectiveness of the groups may be variable.
A team, on the other hand, can be much more difficult to form. Members of a team may be selected for their complementary skills, not a single commonality. A business team may consist of an accountant, a salesman, a company executive and a secretary, for example. Each member of the team has a purpose and a function within that team, so the overall success depends on a functional interpersonal dynamic
Most of the people don’t know the benefits of teamwork. When I interviewed the General manager of an organization and asked about the team work, he said, “ It’s a wastage of time, Its better to work individually. It doesn’t matter that you are working in team or individually, there must be some output”
Many organizations don’t know the benefits, process and formation of teamwork. That’s why they are not interested in teamwork. They are unaware that when teams are good, proves very-very good.

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