Importance of Teamwork in Business

This assignment delves into the significance of teamwork within a business context. It highlights the benefits of teamwork, such as fostering relationships, conveying organizational goals effectively, reducing tension, and building cohesive teams. The document further explores strategies for forming effective teams, emphasizing leadership, employee relationships, team-building activities, and promoting a collaborative work environment.

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Business Communication
Communication in business is important in day to day activities; it forms the backbone
of business functions and the team. It is the ability of an individual to convey effectively
and efficiently, hence the business managers with great verbal, nonverbal & written
communication skills prove to be effective manager who lead the team with great
strength and in the direction of organizational objectives. Efficient and effective
business communication lead to relationship building among the team members which
eventually leads to boosting of their morale, and finally resulting in increased
productivity from the team members (Chaney & Martin,2013). Importance of
Business communication:
 Helps to foster relationship amongst the team members.
 Helps to convey the organizational goals effectively (Argenti, 2015)
 Helps to reduce any tension or stress in the functional team
 Helps to build and formulate big teams and make them function cohesively
towards the organization goals and objectives (Anderson, 2016)
Team Work
Team work happens, when each and every individual harmonize or synergize their
efforts towards one common goal. A great team work is achieved by putting in plenty of
selfless hours of work, struggle, hard work and commitment towards a specific
objective. Great teams do great team works which results in revolutionary work. Just to
cite, the Team of Mac 2 (Apple), was the reason behind the success of the Mac 2, which
changed the entire computing industry. Hence, in order to achieve some greater
objectives, the team members have to come together and develop positive synergies
amongst themselves (Hu & Liden, 2015)
These days organization are constantly looking out for team members who can work in
teams and contribute, organizations these days value team work more than individual
capability. Let’s look at some of the ways to become an effective team player
 Create ground rules-The most important thing, teams should follow, creating
some ground rules, or the basic elements of team work. Ground rules work in the

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same manner as the organizational culture works. Hence in presence of ground
rules, the teams will be able to work effectively.
 Ensure everyone participates- Participation in team meetings and team work
is extremely important. It is the duty of the manager or the meeting manager to
ensure that everybody participates and it’s not just the person with the loudest
voice in the room. Everybody should speak irrespective of any discrimination
and biased ness, this has to be ensured by the manager. If the manager is able to
empower its employees, they sure will participate and contribute towards the
team’s success (Bass & Green, 2014)
 Don’t assume others know what you do-It has a simple meaning, share
whatever information one has, assuming that people already know about
something, may keep the other team members in complete oblivion to the said
points. Hence, in order to become a good team player, assumptions are to be kept
out of the room and sharing should be the core value (Sugden & Punch, 2014)
 Share, analyse and decide-It is essential for the group members to follow a
three step rule in any meeting with the team. Step 1 is, sharing what everyone
knows, that is like putting down the information they already possess, Step 2 is
analysing the before mentioned points and at the same time evaluating
alternatives, lastly, have a healthy discussion before reaching on the final
conclusion.
Formation of teams
Team formation is not something which happens by accident, it requires great efforts.
Let’s see some of the ways by which an effective team can be created:
 Finding & Establishing leadership- In absence of effective leadership, a team
has no direction to move forward in, hence the primary step is to have an
effective leader
 Establishing relationship with each employee- For an employee to trust his
leader, he should have an environment which promotes healthy communication.
This will help to build trust with the leader/manager and this trust and
relationship further leads to teamwork

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 Building relationship between the employees- It is essential to have team
belonging in the team members. This can be ensured by having team building
activities, feedback sessions, fun and play session, parties etc. This will ensure
ease of tension and friction between the team members and they can work
effectively towards the goals of organization
 Develop and build team work- As explained in the points above, building team
work is not that easy task. It takes time, dedication and patience to tackle the
challenges posed by the individual team members and at the same time focus on
the deadline of the work. Hence, the manager has to lead from the front, make
the team understand the importance of team work, make them understand what
is in for them, what will they gain out of working in the teams, how will their
productivity be enhanced etc., once the employee understands the importance of
working in team and becoming an effective team member, he will contribute his
best towards the goals of the organization and the team ensuring maximum
productivity.

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