Let's Work Together

It’s always better if two resources handle a critical issue rather than a single resource. Yes, I am talking about the teamwork. The general perception about teamwork is the willingness of a group of individuals to work together to achieve a common goal. It takes a lot more than just working together in collaboration, to create a good self-sustaining team that is revered by one and all. A good team always finds better resolutions to any problem faced by the client through good understanding and analysis as well as gains a better reputation for the Company.

1. Creativity and Learning:

Each individual in a team has a different mindset and thinking varies from one to other. Everyone has an individual creative sense. We need to leverage this creative nature into our work. Not in a solo manner but in a co-operative manner. The creativity of individual resources when combined, leads to new ways of visualizing a problem and helps in faster issue resolution.

Also, by sharing the creativity, each person in the team can learn from another, which helps to enhance knowledge and broaden the vision.

2.  Strength Blend:

To create a strong team, you need to perform SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) analysis and identify the strength of individuals. Someone may be good at analysis or someone perhaps is efficient in implementation, someone possibly provides you with good ideas and others may be good at research.

Blending the appropriate qualities and strengths makes the team much powerful.

I can learn “analyzing styles” from you, you can learn “tricks of implementation” from me…...What a fantastic idea!

3. Trust:

Relying on other co-workers builds trust. This key factor binds the team together.

When you bestow your trust on your co-workers, it actually helps to prevent conflicts. Trusting colleagues also provides the feeling of safety and provides a good platform to collaborate the ideas. It creates a scope for open communication between your team members and produces effective solutions.

Remember you need a great team to achieve multiple milestones.

4. Resolving Team Conflict:

It is very common to have conflicts between the team members as each and every individual possesses different concepts and views towards any particular work.

But often we find that the conflicts remain unresolved due to some reasons and later on takes a mammoth shape impacting productivity.

A successful team resolves conflicts readily by discussing internally without blaming individuals and always stays at the top.

5. Extensive Ownership:

In a soccer match when any team-member scores a goal, the whole team celebrates.

Similarly, successful project teams encourage the team members to take pride in their contribution. Dodging the obstacles and doing notable work increase the team satisfaction.

This leads towards loyalty and it helps the team as well as the company. A great team never wants to break up and it is a profitable business in the long run.

6. Taking Healthy Risks:

If a person is working on a project alone, then he/she might not be willing to choose any unconventional ways to solve the issues. But if you are working as a team and your teammates trust you, you can take a healthy risk as you know that the entire team will be with you in case of failure.

Conversely, If a single healthy risk leads to a successful result, then it will inspire the team to produce more ideas without hesitation.

In many cases, risky ideas have been established as the most successful ideas on implementation. Teamwork allows an employee to think beyond the conventional walls.

After all, there is no gain where there is no risk. But the risk should be healthy and based upon the depth of knowledge.