Analysing Teamwork for Enhancing Academic Skills & Confidence

This report examines the significance of teamwork in achieving academic success, highlighting the development of essential skills such as reasoning, technical literacy, time management, and note-taking. It emphasizes how teamwork fosters communication, converts introverts into extroverts, improves productivity through shared workload and conflict resolution, and supports vulnerable students. The report also discusses Tuckman's theory, outlining the stages of team development (forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning) and addresses challenges such as building trust, ensuring self-awareness, maintaining purpose, and creating optimal conditions. Ultimately, the report concludes that teamwork enhances academic performance by boosting confidence, enabling effective decision-making, and providing a competitive edge, with students able to analyze critical areas and improve systematically, while also benefiting organizations by contributing to their overall effectiveness.

Academic Skills and
Studying with
Confidence

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
The importance of teamwork in achieving academic success.....................................................1
Tuckman theory to perform better in the team ...........................................................................3
Challenges in teamwork which stops the growth of academic success.......................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills helps the students to perform their enhance their overall knowledge.
Through this they are able to perform additional activities in a systematic manner. There are
various academic skills which includes reasoning, technical literacy, Time management, Note
taking etc. The report aims to analyse about understanding the importance of teamwork in
achieving academic success (Chuang, & et.al (2018)). The students can enhance the knowledge
by working in a team which is coordinated in every manner. On the other hand, in this report
there will be brief discussion about various factors which could help the group to achieve great
results in the future. Along with that, there will be evaluation about new working standards
which the students could implement in order to achieve maximum productivity. For further
instance, in this report there will be evaluation about new opportunities on which the students
can capitalise in the future by developing the key skills.
MAIN BODY
The importance of teamwork in achieving academic success
According to (Chung, Noor, & Mathew, (2020)). Academic success is also called
persistence which the students develop and they can enhance their knowledge in an effective
manner. On the other hand, the main meaning of students success is also called as academic
achievement. The student can measure the performance on he basis of their achievement. They
can achieve better results in the future and capitalise on various opportunities. Teamwork and
academic success is both interrelated to each other. Teamwork helps the group to achieve
success in a significant manner. There are various work duties and responsibilities which is
divided in an effective manner in the team. Every member of the group had to contribute
effectively. This will help the desired group to achieve success and the future goals and
objectives. Teamwork also teaches essential communication which could help the students to
capitalise on various job opportunities in the future for the best position in the workplace. While
working as a team the student can achieve new results in their career path. They are also able to
enhance the overall knowledge. The team has to work a cohesive unit in order to function better.
Teamwork skills serves well in the future career. The importance of teamwork is mentioned
below:
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 Converts introvert into Extroverts – There are various multitude of personalities which
the individuals can find while working in the group. The group needs to work in a
coordinated way in order to achieve better results in the future. The mixing of strategies
is allowing the individuals to work in a better way (Cottrell, (2019)). For most of the
times the students needs to perform by evaluating the critical areas and there are endless
possibilities. The student might face various difficulties while working in the team. The
individuals make new friends and achieve great results in the future.
 Listening skills Improves the Teamwork – While working in the team the individual
can develop effective listening skills. Through this they can suggest better solutions this
will help them to become more better in contributing the team in an effective way. The
idea behind working in the team is to improve the communication skills. This skill could
help the individual to while capitalising on various career oriented opportunities.
 Teamwork Improves productivity – This is one of the most crucial factor teamwork
can improve the productivity of every individual which is working in the group. The
objectives can be efficiently fulfilled by the students (HALL, (2018)). There are three
ways through which the duties are divided in an effective manner. It includes sharing
workload while working in the group they can systematically divided the duties between
various individuals. This will help the group to perform better and in a coordinated way.
 Conflicts Resolutions Solutions – There are various conflicts which must arise while
working in the group. Each member of the group play a vital role and their
responsibilities will contribute to help the team become better and achieve greater results.
The leaders of the group could use different strategies and approaches to minimize the
conflicts in a systematic manner.
According to (Harley, (2019)).
 Teamwork helps Vulnerable Students – This is one of the greatest advantage while
working in the team. The individuals can develop different strategic key skills. They
could help the vulnerable students in order to become more productive and solve various
problems which arises in the team . The leaders has to step up and perform their work
duties and responsibilities in an effective way. There are various distractions which the
student can eliminate in order to perform better and contribute better to the team.
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 Ensures Timely Checks – While working in the group the students can manage time.
This will also help them to achieve better results in the future. Team working directly
improves the management skills. This will help the individual to achieve greater results in
the future. The students ensures the timely checking of other candidates which are nit
performing well in the group (Hazan Liran, & Miller, 2019)). The main focus is to help
the students achieve an systematic growth in the future by fulfilling the overall
responsibilities.
 Students can Socialise – In the team there are various individuals which can socialise
with each other. The team needs to work in a coordinated way in order to achieve great
results and improve efficiency.
 Improving creativity – While working in the group the students can improve their
overall creativity. The students can enhance their creativity and innovative new ideas
which helps them to achieve a systematic growth in the future. In the academic criteria
the student can become more confident and achieve better results.
There are certain similarities between the author they both understand in order to achieve
academic success. There are certain skills and capabilities which the individual has to develop in
an effective manner. On the other hand, there is a dissimilarity which includes that teamwork can
be only achieved by skills. The next author thinks the individual has to gain the confidence in
order to achieve academic success in the future and boost their morale.
Tuckman theory to perform better in the team
This theory was proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. There are various phases in this
model which helps the team to perform better and there are various challenges which could be
arise (Martin, Stamper, & Flowers, 2020)). On the other hand, the individual can solve different
problems and find solutions of the necessary problems. The stages of this model is described
below:
1. Forming – This is the area where various individuals meets with each other and they
agree upon in performing the task. They are able to work independently and per from
their responsibilities.
2. Storming – In this stage there are different ideas which are pass on in the group. The
individual can gain trust on each other (Stadtfeld, & et.al 2019)). There are various duties
and work responsibilities which will be assigned to different candidates.
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3. Norming – There are various disagreements which could arise while working in the
group (Shin, 2018). The individuals needs to work in a significant manner towards the
same vision and goal. All the members had to take responsibility and work in a
coordinated way.
4. Performing – After deciding the responsibilities of each individuals. The team work in a
coordinated way in order to achieve the inherent goal in a systematic manner. They can
achieve high level of success by staying motivated. There are various opportunities on
which they can capitalise by improving the decision making process. In relation to
achieve academic success decision making plays a vital role. The students can become
more confident and make different decisions by assessing the situation.
5. Adjourning – This is one of the last stage in this the team is disbanded and the
individuals might work together in the future. The team can achieve success in the future.
Challenges in teamwork which stops the growth of academic success
The challenges is one of the most important factor which the individual needs to
eliminate in order to achieve academic success (Ozan, & Kıncal, 2018)). The challenges could
stop the growth of the individual and they are fail to achieve academic success. There are various
solutions which the student could possibly deal to achieve great results in the future. There are
various components and barriers described below:
 Building Trust – This is one of the most crucial factor which the team has to develop in
order to achieve success in the future. The main focus is to help the students build a trust.
This will also help them to achieve academic success. There are various new
opportunities on which they can capitalise in order to a systematic growth in the future.
 Team member self awareness – There are various individuals which needs be self wares
and enhance their knowledge to make the team perform well in different conditions. The
main focus of the individual is to achieve systematic growth for the future.
 Lack of Purpose – Most of the individuals which are working in the team tends to forget
about the purpose (Rahmat, 2019)). They had to work in a coordinated way in order to
achieve the goal. There are various opportunities on which they can capitalise and
perform better. The purpose also affects the academic success.
 Optimal conditions – There are various individuals which are working in the team for
the first time. It is extremely difficult for them to work in the new environment. They are
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especially become more fragile in these difficult situations (Sala, & Gobet, 2020)). The
students can achieve academic success by working in the different situations.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has concluded that students can develop different skills which
will help them to achieve better success in the future. On the other hand, there is discussion
about various new opportunities on which the student can capitalise for the future. They are able
to gain a competitive advantage over other individuals. The skills include time management,
leadership, effective decision making etc. With the help of these skills the individual can perform
better in the academic criteria. Along with that, there is evaluation about how academic skills
improves the overall confidence of the students. For further instance, the individual might also
get positive influence on the academic performance. Academic skills will help the students to
analyse various critical areas and improve it in a systematic manner. From this report, it has also
analysed that academic success could also be measured by different tools. On the other hand,
with the help of these skills they are beneficial for the organisation and achieve to gain a
competitive edge over different individuals.
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