Teamwork
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Teamwork has been one of those things most organizations encourage and implement to increase their performance, unity of employees, and culture. Most tasks that are successful in an organization are due to the contribution of teamwork. When a task needs to be completed in the best way possible, getting different groups of people with the various required specialties and then delegating duties appropriately will make it easy to do the work needed to be done. The unity will cause better communication, which will increase the workflow rate, and the task will be completed in time. Teamwork also brings out some organizational behavior that is discussed later in the paper. This paper discusses a brief experience of how I have encountered teamwork in the real world, lessons learned about organizational behavior from the situation, if the lectures’ concepts enrich my understanding of the situation. What I’d do in the future I learned from the class.
I am a general secretariat of the cabinet of ministers, and I have encountered teamwork in my field of work. Some of my duties include preparing the cabinet’s agenda and arranging their meetings. In order to arrange meetings, I need a team. And each member of the team has different duties. There is the body that ensures tasks are delegated accordingly. For example, they ensure that there are people responsible for arranging the venue. Another one is responsible for informing the cabinet ministers about the meeting, the media group accountable for recordings, among others. Most meetings are a success because of the involvement of different teams working together to ensure that the meeting is scheduled at the right time, conducted in a good environment, recorded, all necessary equipment available, and all attendees informed at the appropriate time.
There is some organizational behavior that comes as a result of teamwork. From my experience, collaboration unites people from different sectors of the workplace. When people working together are linked, it makes communication easy and effective. Each party contributes as expected. For instance, if the media group wants the team to arrange the venue to set it in a specific way so that the recording becomes easy, they may avail themselves during the venue’s preparation and ask them to do it as requested. This is also made easier by effective communication between the teams. Working as a team also results in a smooth and faster workflow. When working as a team, everyone involved contributes effectively, the rate of workflow increases, and the activities run smoothly. Most meetings are conducted successfully because of the different groups working hard and contributing as expected. Therefore, it is evident that teamwork creates an organization where the people are united and communicate effectively to increase the workflow rate.
The class lectures helped in understanding teamwork and how it influences the organizational behavior of a company. As discussed in class, collaboration generally unites the participants of the project. And this unity brings about a lot of trust and chemistry between the team members, making it easy for them to work together aiming for the same goal. When they have good chemistry amongst them, they can easily communicate to ensure that work is done appropriately. From class readings, teamwork reduces the amount of time spent working on something. This is evident in my experience because cooperation increased the work rate, resulting in work being done faster. Imagine if it were only one person supposed to run everything from setting up the venue, informing the attendees, setting up the media, etc. It wouldn’t have been possible to conduct successful meetings. There would be a lot of faults. But when people with different specialties come together to work on something, everyone plays their role as expected, and eventually, things run smoothly and faster.
I would encourage teamwork. Teamwork is a significant contribution to the success of any work that needs to be done in the right way. Through teamwork, people with different specialties come together to make something successful. For example, the people working on setting the tables and chairs have a thing in doing so. They have specialized in decorating the place or putting it in the right way. The media team has a specialty in setting up the cameras, microphones, and other electric equipment necessary for the meeting. When all these forces come together, they come up with the expected results. Teamwork also creates a suitable environment for work, in that the burden is not left to only one person or people with the same specialty to perform tasks meant for other people. When you assign someone to work in the field where they are comfortable performing the task, it will motivate them and give their all.
Generally, teamwork unites the team members and enables them to contribute as expected to work supposed to be done as I have witnessed in the real world. It also creates a good working environment for everyone and makes the employees love their jobs, increasing their productivity. The employee’s efforts should also be recognized to motivate them more. Teamwork reduces the time a project could be done because workflow increased; the cooperation makes work easier and faster. Collaboration is very beneficial for a company’s success. It should be practiced not only when the company is doing a project but daily in the company for it to be successful.