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10 tips for better teamwork
Have you ever wondered how some work groups exhibit effective teamwork and others remain dysfunctional for the life of the team? Effective teamwork is both profoundly simple and difficult at the same time.
These ten tips describe the environment that must occur within the team for successful teamwork to take place. Successful teamwork is the cornerstone for creating functioning, contributing teams.
Keys to Successful Teamwork
The team understands the goals and is committed to attaining them. This clear direction and agreement on mission and purpose is essential for effective teamwork.
This team clarity is reinforced when the organization has clear expectations for the team's work, goals, accountability, and outcomes.
The team creates an environment in which people are comfortable taking reasonable risks in communicating, advocating positions, and taking action. Team members trust each other. Team members are not punished for disagreeing.
Communication is open, honest, and respectful. People feel free to express their thoughts, opinions, and potential solutions to problems. People feel as if they are heard out and listened to by team members who are attempting to understand. Team members ask questions for clarity and spend their thought time listening deeply rather than forming rebuttals while their coworker is speaking.
Team members have a strong sense of belonging to the group. They experience a deep commitment to the group’s decisions and actions. This sense of belonging is enhanced and reinforced when the team spends the time to develop team norms or relationship guidelines together.
eam members are viewed as unique people with irreplaceable experiences, points of view, knowledge, and opinions to contribute. After all, the purpose for forming a team is to take advantage of the differences.
Otherwise, why would any organization approach projects, products, or goals with a team. In fact, the more that a team can bring out divergent points of view, that are thoughtfully presented and supported with facts as well as opinions, the better.
Creativity, innovation, and different viewpoints are expected and encouraged. Comments such as, "we already tried that and it didn't work" and "what a dumb idea" are not allowed or supported.
The team is able to constantly examine itself and continuously improve its processes, practices, and the interaction of team members. The team openly discusses team norms and what may be hindering its ability to move forward and progress in areas of effort, talent, and strategy.
The team has agreed upon procedures for diagnosing, analyzing, and resolving team work problems and conflicts. The team does not support member personality conflicts and clashes nor do team members pick sides in a disagreement. Rather, members work towards mutual resolution.
Participative leadership is practiced in leading meetings, assigning tasks, recording decisions and commitments, assessing progress, holding team members
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Have you ever wondered how some work groups exhibit effective teamwork and others remain dysfunctional for the life of the team? Effective teamwork is both profoundly simple and difficult at the same time.
These ten tips describe the environment that must occur within the team for successful teamwork to take place. Successful teamwork is the cornerstone for creating functioning, contributing teams.
Keys to Successful Teamwork
The team understands the goals and is committed to attaining them. This clear direction and agreement on mission and purpose is essential for effective teamwork.
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The team creates an environment in which people are comfortable taking reasonable risks in communicating, advocating positions, and taking action. Team members trust each other. Team members are not punished for disagreeing.
Communication is open, honest, and respectful. People feel free to express their thoughts, opinions, and potential solutions to problems. People feel as if they are heard out and listened to by team members who are attempting to understand. Team members ask questions for clarity and spend their thought time listening deeply rather than forming rebuttals while their coworker is speaking.
Team members have a strong sense of belonging to the group. They experience a deep commitment to the group’s decisions and actions. This sense of belonging is enhanced and reinforced when the team spends the time to develop team norms or relationship guidelines together.
eam members are viewed as unique people with irreplaceable experiences, points of view, knowledge, and opinions to contribute. After all, the purpose for forming a team is to take advantage of the differences.
Otherwise, why would any organization approach projects, products, or goals with a team. In fact, the more that a team can bring out divergent points of view, that are thoughtfully presented and supported with facts as well as opinions, the better.
Creativity, innovation, and different viewpoints are expected and encouraged. Comments such as, "we already tried that and it didn't work" and "what a dumb idea" are not allowed or supported.
The team is able to constantly examine itself and continuously improve its processes, practices, and the interaction of team members. The team openly discusses team norms and what may be hindering its ability to move forward and progress in areas of effort, talent, and strategy.
The team has agreed upon procedures for diagnosing, analyzing, and resolving team work problems and conflicts. The team does not support member personality conflicts and clashes nor do team members pick sides in a disagreement. Rather, members work towards mutual resolution.
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IELTS Writing
- 1. What is your opinion about a success of a team: does it depend on mental attitude of the whole team or on the strongest individuals? When asked about the contributing factor to the success of a team, different opinions may be offered. Some people take it for granted that it is mainly decided by mental attitude of the group. However, others believe that the credit for a successful team goes to the most excellent teammates. As far as I am concerned, it is safe to say that both the strength of individuals and the power of teams are of equal importance to achieve the final success. With the positive mental attitude, it is no denying that the whole team can be effectively working together, overcoming difficulties and accomplishing the program, especially in terms of team sports events. The NBA Final in 2004 serves as a living example.Appearantly; the Los Angeles Lakers were regarded as physically much stronger than Detroit Pistons,however,the latter relied heavily on teamwork ,passing the ball smoothly, and every player was so willing to offer assists for an open man who can make easy basket. Eventually they embraced the championship. Without perseverance and team sprits, Detroit would not win the title. Nevertheless, elites, always with strategic vision and coordination skill ,often help to motivate and even inspire the team members to forge an environment where there is a high level of commitment, making them become more cohesive, loyal, and dedicated .Therefore another key to the success of a team is the effective team leader, who is often the strongest and most crucial figure and would make final decisions at the right moment, thereby playing an indispensable role in the final success. To sum up, the attainment of the success is not an easy task. Nevertheless, with the joint efforts of both the whole team and strongest individuals, we can ensure the success of a team to the greatest extent.