Effective Teamwork: Importance, Theories, and Individual Growth

This essay delves into the critical role of teamwork in organizational success, emphasizing its importance in fostering collaboration, improving efficiency, and enhancing individual learning. It examines the benefits of teamwork, such as delegation of responsibility, improved communication, shared workloads, and increased motivation. Furthermore, the essay explores the application of group dynamic theories, including Tuckman's stages of team development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning), providing a theoretical framework for understanding team behavior. Finally, it reflects on the author's personal experiences within a team setting, highlighting how teamwork enhances knowledge acquisition, problem-solving skills, and overall performance. The essay underscores the significance of teamwork for achieving organizational goals and objectives effectively.

Working in Teams

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Importance of Working in Team.................................................................................................1
Theory of Working in Team.......................................................................................................4
Organise learning and Knowledge of an individual....................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
In this current scenario, every organisation focuses on to make effective and appropriate
team of employees. Because it helps to increase coordination and build healthy relationship with
each others. Furthermore, working in team assist to achieve organisational goals and objectives
in effective and efficient manner (Jelphs and Dickinson, 2016). In the other hand, team refers to,
a group of persons who working for achieving common objectives and targets. Moreover, this
essay will be defining about several importance or benefits of team work as well as various kind
of group dynamic theories. In the addition of this, organise learning and knowledge of an
individual person will be explaining in a appropriate way.
TASK 1
Working in team also know as an effective process of working in collaboration with
group of persons, who wants to achieve decided goals and objectives in decided time period. In
every organisation, working in team plays very eminent role because it helps to improve working
quality, performance, skills, capabilities knowledge level and so more. In the addition of this, it
aids to develop healthy environment in business firm also reduce the level of various conflicts
between individuals ( Bleakley, 2013). Hence, for creating team of employee then it is require to
be have some major abilities and skills in employees or team members. In a team, all members
has right to share their views and ideas with each others as well as they can easy to communicate
with each other without any kind of restrictions. Therefore, importance of team work defining in
appropriate manner such as follows:
Importance of Working in Team
Delegation of Responsibility: When a team works together for achieving organisational
goals and objectives in effective manner, with the help of this easy to understand and identify
actual strengths and weakness of each team members. One of the most important benefit of team
work is that team members and leaders effectively dividing their tasks with each others, so
decided task done by the most qualified and skilled persons. Furthermore without team work, its
not easy to identify and determine actual strengths and quality of members as well as which staff
members can accomplish their works with better result and outcomes.
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Team Efficiency: Working in team system allow to all members to complete their task
with better quality and one decided time period. As well as they have some rights to share their
views and ideas with each others. In the addition of this, when decided tasks and works
completed by some well trained persons or team members, which provide better result and
outcomes to organisation (Johns, 2010). Team work assist to increase efficiency of company as
well as allow to enterprise to take more work and increase production of company's products and
goods. In the addition of this, working in team improve working performance, efficiency and
quality of works, because it directly impacts on organisation and their profitability as well. Due
to, it is very important for every organisation to build an effective and strong team of members n
decided their major objectives and aims.
Ideas Flourish: Another one importance of working in team, assist to resolve company's
issues and problems in the effective and efficient manner. Because when a strong team working
together for achieving decided goals, it which all members has rights to confidentially and
comfortably share their views and suggestions with each others. All persons have different
thinking level and several ideas to resolve problems and handle situations. In the other works,
any kind of situation and problems has been handled by different persons as per their ideas and
views because they has different thoughts and ideas. Due to, employee's ideas and their views are
positively impacts on organisation as well as it helps to increase profitability and production
level of products and goods (Heinemann, 2017).
Support each other: In the external market place, regularly increased competition within
several companies, which all wants to increase their company's revenue as well as build an brand
image in external market place. Strong team provides support to all team members due to, they
will confidentially working with together as well as developed mutual understanding among
them.
Enhanced Communication: Communication is an effective process, which plays
important role in every organisation. It can also known as an key element of success, team work
defined, as meeting of members in which they discuss their views and ideas as well as
communicate with each others. Effective communication and interaction process assist to
develop mutual understanding and create healthy relation among all team members. In the
addition of this, working in team increased coordination and confidence level of employees and
team members. Due to, it is very important to develop and implement healthy communication
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procedure, because it plays significant role in every organisation as well as helps to achieve
organisational goals and objectives in appropriate manner (West and et. al., 2012).
Share workload: When members working in a team for achieving common goals and
objectives in decided time period, the workload is effectively shared and categorised among all
team members. With the help of share workload, effectively managed all business activities and
operations well as they will be done with better quality and performance of employees. In the
addition of this, for developing strong team then works and tasks of organisation must of equally
share or divided among team members as per their capabilities and skills. So they complete their
decided task with better result and outcome (Orford and et. al., 2010).
Motivate to all team members: Motivation is one of the major and effective term in
every person, it assist to achieve organisational goals and objectives with better result. Moreover,
working in team helps to increase motivation level of team members in effective and efficient
manner. For enhancing motivation level of them, should allow to all team members to share their
views and ideas with each others. So significantly increased confidence and motivation level of
them. In the addition of this, motivation of all team members enhanced their working
performance and quality of work, which directly impacts on organisation and their profitability
as well.
Provide learning opportunities: Working in team assist to provide several learning
opportunities to all team members, so they can enhance their knowledge level as well as working
capabilities as well. Moreover, an individual person can learn from several critical situation and
mistakes. In critical situation to find out appropriate solution to resolve them, every persons
wants to find out something new and effective ideas. Because all persons have their different
thinking level and ideas as per that they will resolve several issues and problems in significant
manner. In this light, an individual person can expand their skills and knowledge level from
several situations (Leipzig and et. al., 2012). It helps to achieve organisational goals and
objectives to consuming minimum time period as well as with better outcomes.
Innovate faster: Team of members assist to find out something new and innovative ideas
to face any kind of situation as well as to find out better and appropriate solutions to resolve
problems in minimum time period. Innovation is one of the important process, it plays significant
role in every organisation, because with the help of innovative ideas and thoughts team members
can easy to resolve problems and issues of organisation as well as easy to achieve long and short
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term targets of company. When two or more members working a team for achieving a common
goal, in which all person share their ideas and views to each others, as well as in which all team
members wants to find out something innovative and appropriate solutions to resolve them.
Create healthy competition: Competition is an continues process, which assist to
improve working performance of employees. In which all competitors wants to achieve their
targets as well as they focuses on to build an effective image. It is very important to ever team
leader to implement healthy competition among all team members. So they can learn something
new and innovative things as for completing their decided task. In the addition of this, in a team
must be implement competition and reward system due to they can improve their working
performance because they always concentrate to compete with each others to earn high number
of profit and revenue level with in the organisation (Smart and Barnum, 2010).
Moreover, working in team played several role in every organisation due to this, it has
different importance which has been explained above. As per these importance easy to identify
and clarified actual merits of team works. Apart from this, in the context of team work, has been
explained and defined several theories, which explaining in effective and efficient manner such
as follows:
Theory of Working in Team
Tuckman Theory: Dr, Bruce Tuckman formed his theory which is related to the team
work. In this theory includes mainly four stages such as Forming, Storming, Norming and
Performing. This theory published in 1965 and in 1970 he added one more last stage of this
theory is Adjourning. This theory helps full to identifying and explaining the team development
and their behaviour in the effective and efficient manner.
Forming: It is first stage of this theory, in which all team members are highly depends
upon leader of team for getting directions and effective guidelines. Also, roles and
responsibilities of each individual person are unclear. Furthermore, leader of team must be
prepared to give appropriate answers to lots of questions.
Storming: This is the second stage of this theory, it representing decision of any situation
does not come easily within the group of persons. In which all team members wants to establish
their position in team as well as in the front of leader so they can effectively take and face any
kind of challenges as well as significantly compete with other team members.
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Norming: In this stage, all major roles and responsibilities are cleared with all team
members as well as which also accepted by them. In this addition, all kind of big decisions are
made by the group of agreement in effective way and another small kind of decision are taken by
the individual persons of team. Team members have rights to conduct any kind of fun and social
activities (Folger and Stutman, 2016).
Illustration 1: Tuckman Theory of team work, 2017
(Source- Tuckman Theory of team work, 2017)
Performing: In this stage team members are fully aware about mission and vision of the
team building. In the addition of this, they can take action in any kind of situations without any
interference from the leader. In this stage, all team ambers are concentrate on to achieve
organisational goals and objectives.
Adjourning: In this stage all works and tasks are categorised among all team members
and they completed their works with better and effective outcomes as well as their major
purposed has been fulfilled in appropriate manner.
Apart from this, this is one of the important theory of working team, in which explaining
the importance or benefits of team work as well as defined major responsibilities of team
members.
Organise learning and Knowledge of an individual
As per defined working in team, it played significant role role in every organisation. With
the help of this easy to achieve organisational goals and objectives in decided time period. In the
other hand, as I am a member of team here explaining about my experience. When I worked in a
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team, everyone shared their view and ideas for achieving decided goals and objectives in
appropriate manner. Team work increased my working performance and involvement due I
effectively completed any kind of works as well as significantly find out suitable solutions for
resolving critical situations and problems. When employees of organisation working in a team
for attaining common goals it helps to enhance knowledge level as well as build healthy
relationship among all members. My working quality and involvement totally based on team
leader and their guidelines.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned this essay it has been concluded that, team work played vital
role because it assist to attained targets with appropriate outcomes. It has been defined actual
importance or benefits of working in team. As well as Tuckman theory also has been explained
in appropriate manner with in fully clarification. Furthermore, organise learning and knowledge
of an individual has been elaborated in the context of self experience.
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Online
Why Women Prefer Working Together (and Why Men Prefer Working Alone), 2017. [Online].
Available through: <https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/why-
women-prefer-working-together-and-why-men-prefer-working-alone/278888/>.
[Accessed on 28th August 2017]
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