The document emphasizes the importance of teamwork in organizations as it fosters innovation, communication, motivation, efficiency, and workload management. It outlines various benefits including learning opportunities, support among team members, overcoming obstacles collectively, and increased empowerment and flexibility. Overall, embracing teamwork is presented as essential for achieving both organizational goals and enhancing individual job satisfaction and well-being.

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TEAM= Together Everyone Achieves
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To genuinely achieve success, it has always been necessary for an organisation to embrace
teamwork. As today’s economy places greater pressure upon organisations to be highly
competitive, agile and innovative, collaboration has become a vital aspect of an
organisation’s practice, requiring teamwork across different job roles, business sites and
hierarchies, all to achieve a common goal. Teamwork is also important for employees,
leading to greater engagement with their work and increased wellbeing, sense of belonging
and job satisfaction.
The Business Dictionary defines teamwork as:
“The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal.”
Effective teamwork comprises a committed group of people working together in a
synergised manner, working towards a shared goal. By employing teamwork strategies, the
individual strengths of each of the team members are maximised. Teams must be
appropriately managed to ensure that a team works well together.
The title of this blog post is TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More. But how does this
work in practice? Why should we encourage teamwork? Following are some of the key
reasons why teamwork is so important.

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1. Ideas – Perhaps the most important benefit of teamwork is the innovation and idea
development which arise from the synergies involved in having a group of people think,
create, develop and work together. There is a much greater scope for creativity when
people work in a team. People have greater confidence in sharing ideas and their ideas are
less limited to “safe” options. Teams also allow for the collaboration of a group of people
with diverse backgrounds, knowledge and skills. It is true that we are greater than the sum
of our parts.
2. Communication – Teamwork inherently involves an increase in communication, with
opportunities for discussion, brainstorming, meetings and collaboration. People
communicate more frequently and learn to communicate better to get buy-in for their
ideas.
3. Motivation – Teamwork leads to increased motivation for employees or participants. A
recent Stanford University study found that when people are treated as team members,
their motivation increases. This increase in motivation leads to improved outcomes for
projects.
4. Efficiency – Teamwork greatly improves efficiency. There are more people on board to
tackle problems which arise, more people to develop innovative ideas, a better distribution
of work across people’s skills sets and a shared responsibility which allow work to be
achieved quicker.
5. Workload – In an effective team, the workload is distributed fairly and evenly across all
people involved according to levels of skill, experience, involvement and responsibility for a
particular project. Team members can also help each other with various aspects of work
when people have capacity to assist. By distributing and managing the workload across a
team, team members are more likely to have the appropriate amount of work to do and
have avenues to receive assistance if needed.
6. Learning – Teamwork provides an excellent opportunity for people to develop
professionally and to learn from others. Team members may acquire knowledge from
others and may adopt new skills. Each team member serves as a learning resource for other
team members.
7. Support – Strong team relationships offer great support to people within an organisation.
Teamwork promotes equitable relationships and a sense of camaraderie. Team members
rely on each other for support, develop trust and grow confidence. In this way, teams offer
better avenues for achieving the goals of the relevant project. By providing support in this
way, teams also increase the wellbeing and satisfaction of those in the team.
8. Overcoming obstacles – When an individual faces obstacles, these may often be difficult to
overcome alone. By working together, a team can tackle obstacles as a shared challenge and
more easily conquer them.
9. Synergy – Teamwork takes advantage of every team member’s strengths. Teamwork
creates a synergistic relationship and environment in which strengths are maximised,

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weaknesses are minimised and the best is brought out of each team member. The strengths
of each team member are complimented by others and the team as a whole has the ability
to achieve great things.
10. Empowerment – As team members are supported by the team as a whole, restraints which
they may usually face are removed and they are empowered and provided with increased
confidence to succeed.
11. Less hierarchy – Teamwork allows for less traditional hierarchies and has seen a great
increase within the workplace of team leadership roles rather than traditional management
structures. This allows team members to be more involved with their colleagues, to have
greater engagement with their supervisors and to have greater personal accountability.
12. Flexibility and Agility – By having a team of people at the ready to respond to all aspects of
a project, the team as a whole is more responsive to change and issues which may arise and
more flexible and agile in the way that it can respond.
13. Multi-disciplinary & diversity – By having people work together, there is an inevitable mix
of disciplines, backgrounds, personalities, skills, knowledge and ideas. This diversity or what
I like to term ‘positive human collisions’ offers great potential for projects to be innovative
and successful, allows team members to learn and develop from others and generally
fosters a healthier and more inclusive atmosphere within an organisation.
Go forward and embrace teamwork within your organisation. Teamwork leads to amazing
benefits for both the organisation and all of the individuals involved.
Teamwork works!
Information Presented by :-
Tania De Jong AM
Level 1, 10 Dorcas Street,
South Melbourne Victoria, 3205 AUSTRALIA
+61 (0)3 8679 6000
Email: info@creativeuniverse.com.au
Web: www.creativeuniverse.com.au