Summary: The Importance Of Teamwork

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The ability of the employees to work in a team is considered to be one of the most important skill sets required by organisations. It is widely believed that an individual who is capable of contributing his/her ideas to a team and is also able to help others contribute to the process.
Teamwork is considered as a process that involves individuals exercising their efforts and skills towards clearly defined and measurable common goals. The teams bring together diverse ideas from different members of the group and also ensure that they accomplish the tasks allotted to them.
Teamwork involves aspects such as :
• working together as a group contributing ideas and
• communicating the ideas and accepting others ideas,
• Accepting other’s opinions …show more content…

The organisation must also develop inter-related functions within the organisation to support the initiatives of the team.
In order to ensure the success of the team, and to enable the positive impact of team work, the organisations need to build high performance teams. Let us look at what you mean by a high performance team.
A High performance team is a group of individuals who are completely committed to perform the goals of the enterprise, in a manner which may be superior to the other teams and also which may be focused on achieving specific results for the organisation.
The team may have to possess specific skills and goals which should be aligned to the organisational goals. The organisation must create an environment wherein there exists clarity on performance goals and the expected outcomes from a high performance team.
Teamwork is important due to:
- the ability it builds in the individuals within the team to solve problems creatively through synergising the multiple minds within the team. This synergy can be created by sharing the knowledge and experience of the team members to arrive at solutions to organisational …show more content…

1.1.4 - Factors contributing to success of High performance teams:
The various factors that may contribute to the success of the High performance teams are:
1. Commitment to the objectives: The high performance teams are involved in integrating their individual values and group values with the organisation goals. The teams are highly committed to the objectives of the organisation.
2. Cohesiveness: The group tends to build a sense of belonging and solidarity as the team works and shares the responsibility of decisions within the organisation.
3. Shared Leadership: The leadership for a high performance team is shared and rotated far more than any other team within an organisation.
4. Collective Learning: High performance teams ensure better exchange of ideas and builds learning capabilities within the team members.
5. Better Adaptive abilities: High performance teams also have team members who can adapt easily to the various changes within the organisation.
6. Faster Learning: high performance teams foster better and faster learning
7. Identification with team outcomes: The team also ensures faster identification with the team

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