Advantages of Group Work in Academic and Professional Skills

This presentation explores the advantages of group work in academic and professional skills. It discusses how working in a group can enhance communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities. The presentation also provides examples of successful group work and highlights the benefits for organizations, managers, and staff.

Academic and professional skills

Introduction
■ Academic skills are those which tackle the process of an organisation and bringing new
information with assessment.
■ It includes effective reading, mnemonics that have lists of information, efficient note
taking and concentration techniques. Professional skills are mentoring, leadership,
project management, conflict resolution negotiation and so on.
■ These skills are needed and fruitful while working in team in the workplace.

Advantage of group work.
■ There are many advantages for working in group. Working in group is beneficial in
order to experience new things.
■ It gives chance to learn something new from each member of group.
■ It assists to understand how group work can help to improve learning and make
individuals to face the positive and negative experience of life (Henttonen, Kianto and
Ritala, 2016).
■ There are some advantages in working group –
■ It enhances the communication and other professional development skills
■ It helps to engaged in team, increased individual performance:

Why group work is advantageous
■ Work group is advantageous in order to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, make
focused, improve relationship of team member by engaging them together.
■ It increases the collaboration and allow brainstorming. Team work develop new ideas
and improve productivity of employees.
■ Working in team make every members to solve problems, finish all tasks on time. In
team there are different people with different mind (Levi, 2015).
■ Every body has own opinion and ideas. It brings new ideas in team. Due to this, in
enhance the creativity of team and individual as well.
■ Team collaboration is advantageous in order to break complex tasks into parts and steps.
It manages time and plan because all members work together.

Example of group work.
■ Woking in team allow employees to make strength of each other, work productively and
collaboratively.
■ Team members must use their strength and ideas and collectively approach objectives
to be successfully.
■ Effective team work impact positively on the success of organisation and increase the
revenue and profit of company (Brown, 2017).
■ With this make employees confident about their team and its work.
■ There are some example of group work given below.

How organisation, manager and staff get benefits from group
work.
■ Effective group work is important to obtain competitive advantage in the market.
■ When People work together in a group, brainstorming ideas of different people benefits
organisation. Combining unique perspectives of each member of team bring more
positive outcome for organisation.
■ Group work maximizes shared knowledge in the organisation which leads employees
towards better performance (Cottrell, 2017).
■ More productive and knowledgeable employees work more efficiently. Due to this,
organisation will get more success. Group work builds trust within team member which
in essential for any organization.
■ Trusting on each other help employees to share information with fear and hesitation.

CONCLUSION
■ From the above study it has been concluded that working in group is advantageous in
not for only organisation but also for staff and individuals.
■ It impacted positively on organization. Employees learned different things from their
group members.
■ It enhanced their strengthen, productivity and effectiveness.

REFERENCE
■ Cottrell, S., 2017. Critical thinking skills: Effective analysis, argument and reflection.
Macmillan International Higher Education.
■ Brown, A., 2017. Groupwork. Routledge.
■ Levi, D., 2015. Group dynamics for teams. Sage Publications.
■ Henttonen, K., Kianto, A. and Ritala, P., 2016. Knowledge sharing and individual work
performance: an empirical study of a public sector organisation. Journal of Knowledge
Management. 20(4). pp.749-768.