The Importance of Teamwork in Thai Cave Rescue Case

This essay discusses the significance of teamwork in the successful Thai cave rescue mission and highlights the factors that made teamwork effective. It also explores the roles played by the team in the mission and offers a self-reflection on the importance of teamwork.

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Introduction
This essay is completely focused on the prominence of teamwork in Thai cave rescue case. It is
also including the factors which are very significant for the effective performance of the
teamwork in any situation. In addition to this, it is also including the learning the important role
which has been played in the successful rescue mission in Thai cave case. This mission was
completely dependent on the right set of people who were having knowledge, skills and
operational expert in their areas because this rescue mission belongs to one of the most difficult
categories. Therefore, this was not at all possible without teamwork because it was the teamwork
which has brought connected between people from different background and culture to leave
their ego aside in order to bring success in this rescue mission (Cohen, 2009). This case simply
indicates that nothing is impossible if people associated with the task are dedicated to their work.
Importance of teamwork in Thai cave rescue case
One of the best examples of operational teamwork is the case of Thai cave rescue in which 12
boys of Thai soccer team got trapped in the cave. This case focuses on the group formation of
people from different confines such as different culture, zones, and operational areas. This case
indicates that high goals can be only achieved if people are combined with variable set patterns
in order to attain large pool of abilities and skill sets to solve complex problems related to social
or technical aspects which seems to be impossible (Cohen, 2009). Here, team played role of the
family which is very concern to children who got trapped in serious situations.
For any successful mission, right flow of information plays a very important role by eliminating
possible errors in the communication. In this situation, teamwork played a significant role in
providing the right information among all the associated individual which were linked with this
mission. This helped in decreasing the possible conflicts which can arise during the work
operation. Teamwork helped in distribution equal amount of work among the team members to
ensure that no individual may feel burden of role and responsibilities (Salas et al., 2015). This
helped in keeping a positive work environment within the team while working for this rescue
mission. All the important material which brought value to this mission was possible to be
delivered efficiently because of the teamwork which actually played the role of a supervisor for
this rescue mission. In this situation, timing aspects were one of the most critical aspects for the
success of this mission.
Aspects that made teamwork effective
One of the most important factors or aspect which plays a very important role in the success of
this mission was coordination because it helped the team to bring all the experts on the global
platform together to increase the success rate of this mission. As a result of this, such effective
team was build which includes people with high experience, skills, and knowledge in their sector
which was an exact requirement of this mission (Majchrzak, Jarvenpaa & Hollingshead, 2007).
In addition to this, this case also highlights one significant lesion that if there is no shame in

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asking for help if something seems to be difficult for an individual. Thai team was aware that
they cannot handle this situation single-handedly and therefore they ask for help from others
countries which offered them to bring a team of highly specialized people which raised the
chances of survival for the people who were trapped in the most critical situation (Chuang,
Jackson and Jiang, 2016). This external help offered them the platform on which they were
provided with an ample amount of material and manpower which has automatically increased the
speed of the rescue mission in Thai cave case.
Another important aspects which act as an important asset for the team were making effective
use of strength. In Thai cave case, Team was able to make effective and efficient use of all the
available resource it may be material or hundred numbers of volunteers or crews in the unified
direction of the mission with the help of collaboration approach (Salas et al., 2015)). People who
were giving external support of logistics and information provider kept the situation calm in Thai
to eliminate chances of panic. It clearly indicates that if people combine together in collaborative
pattern then even big challenges can be brought to their knees. Collaboration keeps encouraging
the team members for the success of this mission and offers them the necessary confidence in
terms of energy and capability which is very helpful in such situations where most of the people
lost hope. This offers a high outcome in terms of performance. This case explored the power of
leadership and attracted a million minds towards this mission (Everson et al., 2018). There were
few situations in which team members has lot their hope but it was the power of leader which
rebuild the broken confidence in the team members that that can complete this mission and no
barrier can stop their success path. It was the leadership which has closed all the confusing path
for the team members.
Another important aspect, in this case, was the exchange of Knowledge within the team. In Thai
cave rescue case hundreds of people have proven the power of effective utilization of knowledge
exchange.
Role played by team in Thai case rescue mission
Thai case rescue mission highlights various important roles which have been played by the team
in the success of this mission. One of the important roles was of coordination which permitted
the team to reduce all the possible conflicts which could arise in the success of this mission (Cha
et al., 2015). Another important role played by team was resource allocator in which effective
and efficient utilization of time and resource management could be easily seen. In addition to
this, team also played the role of information provider which kept public in a calm situation.
Conclusion
In this complex world, teamwork plays a very important role in the success of any mission.
Teamwork offers many benefits in terms of effective flow of information, collaborate skills and
knowledge. In addition to this, teamwork helps in reducing conflict within the team by building
trust in terms of work excellence. Exchange of knowledge helps in bringing efficiency within the

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communication channel which helps the team in understanding which set of approach will fit
better in which situation. This has helped in eliminating the possibility of errors which can arise
which operating the mission on the ground level.
Self-refection on Teamwork
Introduction
This session on teamwork makes me realized that due to the current dynamic environment,
concept of working has completely changed from individual to work as a team member. Now
individual are no solo character in the organization anymore they have to act as a team. In
addition to this, this session was very focused on the importance of teamwork in our society as
well as professional time. This session also connected me with my personal experience related to
teamwork both in practical as well as theoretical aspects. This session offers me the opportunity
to feel the work environment while working in a team instead of an individual.
Experience on team work
This session helped me in realizing the real power of teamwork. Though I have many
interactions related to this teamwork I was not completely aware of it. Before this session, I was
not taking this term seriously even having a lot of direct and indirect experience related to
teamwork in my both personal as well as professional life. Before this session, I use to believe
that in order to complete any task within the given time, individual working was better than team
work because the person has full control on the decision related to the task as compared to
working in a team. But this session realized me that if right individuals are arranged in the group
despite their cultural differences, background and skills than any impossible mission can be
made possible. I realized that my perception of teamwork was negative.
Quite frankly, I was not interested during initial stages because I thought that working in time
will invest a lot of time and effort which will not able to give expected results as compared to
work on individually. I selected one portion of the task and started working on it individually but
soon I realized that I am in true need of help. When I got another hand for this portion I realized
that we were able to complete this portion of task earlier than the given time. After this incident,
I realized the power of effective teamwork and benefits which are connected with the teamwork
while working as a teamwork. I realized that team work is not about completion of task only. In
fact, it is all about exchange of health relation, skills, knowledge, and techniques which are
helpful for all the individuals who are working in the team.
Conclusion
I realized that any difficult goal can be achieved in life with the help of teamwork because it
offers the opportunity to exchange knowledge and in addition to this, it also helps in learning
new skills and technique which are very important for my personal growth as well as

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development. In addition to this session, realized me that task can be finished faster in teamwork
because it allows the equal distribution of workload among the team members which helps in
maintain a healthy workplace environment.

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