Teamwork

      Team means Together Everyone Achieves More! Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision. It is the ability to direct individual accomplishment towards organizational objectives.  It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  When we talk about Teamwork we generally mean different things. For some a team is a group of people with a shared purpose. For others a team must also have a deadline. For others a team must also embody some degree of co-operative working. If we are really serious about improving teams and teamwork then we need to get more rigorous around what we actually mean. 

  Like everything in this universe, teamwork has several advantages and disadvantages as well. One of the advantage is that it encourages group support and co-operation and teaches the group members about tolerance and understanding of different angles and points of view. Weaknesses of one member can be supported by stronger members which will make the results better and more effective than a person doing it individually. It can reinforce the notion that two (or more) heads are better than one. Also when a group of intelligent people is talking about one common subject and looking for best solution they usually find the answer to their questions. Why? Because we are all different and while speaking one mind is stimulating another one and that's how the best ideas and solution usually comes up during brainstorming.

  Disadvantages of teamwork include when working in a team there are no losers and no winners. That, despite of obvious advantage (no one loses anything), can be a big disadvantage because no one takes a blame and no one can really feel  good of the gained success. If the task is assigned to a group which does not enjoy doing work they would assume that other members of the group would do it but in fact the task would be left unfinished. Teamwork also leads to interdependency as tasks are divided among the workers but if one worker is absent or unwilling to work, the entire group will have to suffer. Not all members of the group will undertake their tasks on time and can let the entire group down. Not all members will have the same strengths and weaknesses. If ideas of different members conflict, it can have very adverse effect on the performance of the entire team.

  Despite having many disadvantages, the advantages of teamwork outweigh them. There is a famous saying,” Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success” which shows the importance of teamwork.