Benefits of Team Working

This article explores the benefits of team working in the workplace. It discusses the significance of teamworking, such as enhanced collaboration, diverse perspectives, and the creation of a positive working environment. It also highlights the advantages of working in a team, both for individuals and organizations.

Academic and Professional
Skills

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY...................................................................................................................................3
Benefits of team working.............................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Professional skills can be defined as the career competencies which are not acquired by
academics but it develops while working at the workplace. Professional skills are leadership,
mentoring, conflict resolution and project management etc. value-added skills which are
essential for any career. The brief study helps to understand benefits of team working at the
workplace.
MAINBODY
Benefits of team working
Significance of teamworking
Team working refers as a group of people works together to achieve common goal or
compete task effectively. It is the collaborative efforts of group or individuals that they give in a
team for achieving core competency. Teamworking is a soft skill that develops by individual at
workplace. Team working plays essential role in personal life as well as business because it
builds good relation between people and maintains their wellbeing. Team working leads diverse
talent, communication skills, strengths and weaknesses together which gives effectiveness in
their working (Al Zain, Vasilache and Incze, 2018).
Benefits of Teamworking
There are numerous benefits of teamworking which is described as follows:
Great Idea: The genius idea never comes by a single mind because individual keep different type
of skills and abilities. Then it is not right to say idea comes by individuals. Teamworking leads
collaboration of different personality, skills and communication which tie a bond between them
due to common goal. When people work together then they have to manage themselves
according to other so that team can work hard and achieves common goal over the time. A good
teamworking requires attention of each member in a team and effective communication which
helps them to understand others point of view regrading task or project. When team member
works together and gives their suggestion to get success in their project then raise a creative idea.
Whereas whole team puts it into their practices that leads innovation.

Diverse perspectives: According to writers has interpreted that success never comes through
comfort zone (Hanaysha, 2016). The success comes from discomfort zone because it pushes
people to grow themselves to get comfort zone. A teamworking leads different perspectives,
backgrounds together to perform task in single platform either it is discomforted or comfortable
zone. There is an example of McKinsey company which keeps their views about the concept
such as team makes up member from the diverse backgrounds in term of age, ethnicity and
gender etc. and consider they are more creative and innovative nature as well as perform better
as compared homogenous team.
Create happiness: A great teamworking cooperate and supports it’s member to work hard and
resolve their issues regrading performance. A good teamworking creates effective working
environment for the member where they can keep their views freely without discrimination at
workplace. Effective communication takes place in a team member which builds good relation
among them as result foster friendship. Good teamworking makes individual member more
productive and eligible for the workplace.
Grow skills and Helps to take risk: It is another benefit of teamworking and plays essential role
in personal and professional life as well. For example, it is mandatory when a team works
together then they must have proper knowledge regarding task (Tripathy, 2018). The knowledge
gains by team member to share information and cross training to each other. individual who
works in a team can learn from other member mistakes, which helps them to keep side step
future errors. Another benefit of teamworking is that it makes team risk taker instead of ignoring.
It is a simple fact when person works alone in that situation, they hesitate to take risk. But when
individual works in a team then gets high support from entire team to take risk without thinking
about outcomes.
Advantages to work in a team
To work in a team has various advantage i.e. it enhances collaboration and permits brain
storming. It generates more ideas and improves productivity as well. An individual person
always gets difficulty to take better decision but when two or more people works together leads
better decision and finishes difficult task as well as influences creativity (Hanaysha, 2016). A
good teamwork environment establishes healthy and creative working environment. A good team

working always motivates individual to give high efforts in their performance so that they easy
to achieve common goal over the time. Team working leads different type of talent and
personality together on a single task or project. When different skills and talent works together
that automatically influence level of working at the workplace. Let’s talk about personal life such
as when different personality people work in a team for achieving common goal. In that state,
they understand each other by communicating effectively and keeps their view point regrading
task. It is quite common each person has different potential, mind and others. When number of
people works in a team then they learn new skills from their team member and improves their
performance level. Thus, teamworking plays significant role personal and professional life. Thus,
there are numerous advantages of teamworking and gets high advantage to individual to work in
a team as member.
Benefits
Organization gets more benefits from teamworking because it helps organization to keep
healthy working environment. In addition, good teamworking generate creative working
environment and leads productiveness in their working. Organization does not have to face
conflicts at the workplace. For example, when two or more members works together then
reduces work pressure on individual employee and maintains their wellbeing within workplace.
Most of the organization promotes team working at the workplace (Kniffin and Hanks, 2018).
The reason behind is that it improves working efficiency of individual in a team and achieves
number of tasks effectively. In addition, it maintains employee wellbeing with company due to
good teamwork. Organization gets foster creativity and learning at workplace which helps
organization to generate high profit and raises good will of company. Organization easy to
establish good relation with the staff by promoting teamworking. It develops conflicts resolution
skills in a team member while working on specific task. Overall Teamworking gives positive
impact on organization’s productivity, operation and performance as well.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded significance of teamworking for individual and professional life.
Benefits of teamworking has been summarized in report. The brief study provided

understanding about advantage to work in a team and explained about organization’s benefits
which acquired by teamworking at the workplace.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Al Zain, N.L., Vasilache, S. and Incze, C.B., 2018, May. The significance and managerial
challenges of virtual teamworking. In Proceedings of the International Conference on
Business Excellence (Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 25-33). Sciendo.
Hanaysha, J., 2016. Examining the effects of employee empowerment, teamwork, and employee
training on organizational commitment. Procedia-Social and Behavioral
Sciences. 229(298-306). pp.298-306.
Hanaysha, J., 2016. Testing the effects of employee empowerment, teamwork, and employee
training on employee productivity in higher education sector. International Journal of
Learning and Development. 6(1). pp.164-178.
Kniffin, K.M. and Hanks, A.S., 2018. The trade-offs of teamwork among STEM doctoral
graduates. American Psychologist. 73(4). p.420.
Tripathy, M., 2018. Building quality teamwork to achieve excellence in business
organizations. International research journal of management, IT and social
sciences. 5(3). pp.1-7.