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5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by zazawaga(m): 6:18pm On Jul 25, 2017
https://discovery.insidify.com/5-reasons-teamwork-is-key-to-your-companys-growth

The ability to simultaneously perform as an individual and in line with your employees is key to attaining growth and success. Being a master of one or a jack-of-all-trades in today’s world does not guarantee success either, especially if you are unable to work as part of a team.

In essence, teamwork is extremely important in order to accomplish the overall objectives and goals of an organization. However, let’s break it into specifics:

1.It helps foster unity in the workplace

Teamwork promotes an atmosphere that fosters friendship and loyalty. This close-knit type of ambiance motivate employees and aligns them for hard work, co-operation and kindness towards each other. Since Individuals possess diverse talents, weaknesses, communication skills, strengths and habits Therefore, when a teamwork environment is not encouraged this can pose many challenges towards achieving the overall goals and objectives. This creates an environment where employees become self-absorbed in promoting their own achievements and competing against their fellow colleagues. Ultimately, this can lead to an unhealthy and inefficient working environment.

2.It offers differing perspectives and feedback

When a number of people come together to work on a project or task, it goes without saying that they cannot all have the same opinions. Teamwork allows for diversity in thought, creativity, perspectives, opportunities and problem solving approaches. Being a part of a team allows individuals to brainstorm collectively, which in turn increases their chances at arriving at solutions more efficiently and effectively. Sharing differing opinions and experiences strengthens accountability and can help make effective decisions faster, than when done alone. It also increases instantaneous feedback and allows for stages of designing, planning and implementation to be done almost immediately.

3.It improves efficiency and productivity

When working as a team, employees become more efficient and productive as it allows the workload to be shared, reduces the pressure on individuals, ensures tasks are completed within a set time frame, allows goals to be more attainable, enhances the optimization of performance, improves job satisfaction and increases work pace. Ultimately, when a group of individuals work in tandem, compared to one person working alone, they promote a more efficient work output and are able to complete tasks faster due to many minds being intertwined on the same goals and objectives of the business.

4.It provides learning opportunities

Working in a team enables individuals to learn from one another’s mistakes. They are able to avoid future errors, gain insight from differing perspectives, and learn new concepts from more experienced colleagues. In addition, individuals can expand their skill sets, discover fresh ideas from newer colleagues and therefore ascertain more effective approaches and solutions towards the tasks at hand. This active engagement generates the future articulation, encouragement and innovative capacity to problem solving and generating ideas more effectively and efficiently.

5.Promotes workplace synergy

Mutual support, shared goals, cooperation and encouragement provides workplace synergy. With this, team members are able to feel a greater sense of accomplishment, are collectively responsible for outcomes achieved and feed individuals with the incentive to perform at higher levels. When team members are aware of their own responsibilities and roles, as well as the significance of their output being relied upon by the rest of their team, team members will be driven to share the same vision, values and goals. The result creates a workplace environment based on fellowship, trust, support, respect and cooperation.

The inability to effectively work as a team can impede on the success of developing, formulating and implementing new and innovative ideas as well as limit the efficiency and effectiveness of a growing or established company.

The synergy of individuals is a powerful and potent instrument; don’t be misled by the idea that working in isolation brings glory. Working in solitude may bring about bouts of stardom, however, it will not necessarily make you a regular winner!

In the event that you have issues working on your team, or your concern is with your team lead, don’t hesitate to mention it in the comments, our in-house career coach is ever ready to help.

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Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Nobody: 7:07am On Jul 26, 2017
Entrepreneurship, business or whatever you might prefer to label it strive in success when a team who have a common goal work together into achieving an aim. Overlook teamwork and you get kicked out of business.

Forget about being the boss, or being able to do it all, you need an extra hand.

I once made this mistake during my importation business back in 2005, but the moment I considered teamwork was the beginning of enormous result. My job was to motivate them daily into achieving more and more.

Business is about teamwork.

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Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by otabuko(m): 7:07am On Jul 26, 2017
So the guy above beat me to ftc.
Well to the topic, some team members would make working together hard. Especially the lazy one and office gossiping crew.

*Modified*
The guy below you are third to comment.

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Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Manweyfitquarel(m): 7:08am On Jul 26, 2017
First to comment
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by SLYinSKY: 7:09am On Jul 26, 2017
that is the key

Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Tboysalau(m): 7:10am On Jul 26, 2017
cool
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by NwaAmaikpe: 7:11am On Jul 26, 2017
shocked

Your only reason being in any company is to earn a salary and not building a team.
Who teamwork don EPP?

All man for himself unless it's you needing help.
After all, na only you waka come.

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Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Dayor100(m): 7:11am On Jul 26, 2017
And to knw the innovative idea people have for the growth of the company
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Webvibez: 7:12am On Jul 26, 2017
SLYinSKY:
that is the key


Yeah
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Dayor100(m): 7:14am On Jul 26, 2017
and to knw the innovative idea people have for the growth of the company
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by LordKO(m): 7:17am On Jul 26, 2017
Team Work; Undivided professionals crowd-pulling their efforts together as a team vs independent-minded professionals working together as a team.

While the former encourages quasi-unity, limited productivity, backbiting and other vices the latter always provides maximum productivity, unnecessary familiarity/respect for all sane and sound and many other goodnesses.
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Nnamdi98(m): 7:20am On Jul 26, 2017
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one.

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Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Nomswag: 8:50am On Jul 26, 2017
To be frank team work is the best , but when there is lack of trust or should I say suspicion , how do you handle such a situation?
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by jobbers: 9:39am On Jul 26, 2017
good
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by Nipeks(m): 12:41pm On Jul 26, 2017
Team work can be a pain in the ass.

Some of us are just better off alone.
Re: 5 Reasons Teamwork Is Key To Your Company's Growth by generaluthman: 12:14pm On Jul 27, 2017
Naso

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