Importance of Teamwork: Motivation, Efficiency, and Synergy

Introduction
Teamwork is a kind of work that the teams are best configured to do. It is a kind of work that
helps the individuals to use their strengths in order to complement each other, this helps the
people to come together and build relationships. Teamwork also helps to share vision so that
their strengths are used in a common direction or towards a common goal. Teamwork can be
built in a lot of ways.
Importance of teamwork
 Team work motivates unity
Teamwork has an environment that helps and promotes the atmosphere and also foresters the
relationship, loyalty and friendship.
 Team work offers differing perspectives and feedbacks
Good and effective teamwork helps the organization to have thought diversity and, creativity
of thought.
Team work provides improved efficiency and productivity
Teamwork allows them to share the load of work with other individuals, which reduces the
pressure on one person and it also makes sure that the work or the task is completed in the
given time.
Teamwork provides great opportunities
Teamwork helps people to avoid the mistakes in future and helps them to gain the
perspectives from different angles and they are able to learn thing from more experienced
colleagues.

 Team work promotes synergy
Corporation and encouragement, mutual support shared goals all of these things provides
synergy.
 Teamwork teaches conflict management skills
Teamwork helps in building conflict management skills as the individuals are forced to work
together and are forced to solve the issue or the conflict on their own as they cannot turn to
the management with their issues.
Issues and problems related to teamwork
 Trust
The first and the most important issue that comes in teamwork in the lack of trust among the
team members of the team.
Absence of team identity
The members of the team sometimes do not feel accountable to one another for the goals and
the objectives of the team.
 Lack of open communication
This is a major issue almost in every team. In teamwork people mostly suffer from poor
communication.
Difficulty in decision making process
This is also a major issue as people different ideas, values and believes and sometimes
individuals cannot agree on the same thing (Gaba, 2010).
 Inability to solve the conflicts