Benefits Of Teamwork To The Success Of An Organisation

If you get a broomstick and try to use it to sweep your house, you will expend a lot of energy and still end up not achieving the desired result. But when you get a collection of the broomsticks and tie them to form a bunch, it will become easier to achieve the purpose of sweeping. This correlates to how teamwork applies to the success of an organisation. For an organisation to have success, there is a requirement for teamwork in which the team members will act together towards a particular goal. Here, we shall look at some benefits of teamwork.

The first point to consider is in the area of productivity. Acting alone can be limited because of the limitations of our individual's strength. Of course, each person has their own limitations and other places they have strengths. So when their is an effective team, each member will bring in their strengths to beef up the weakness of the other, and then a better productivity is achieved. More so, workload will be evenly distributed and shared so that one person will not carry it entirely, and by this, it will be easier to achieve success.

In your organisation, if you want success, then you should not make the organisation to be centered around just one person. That is, raise a team, instead of raising just individuals. I remember a particular football tournament I once witnessed where one team with some of the biggest names in football was to face a supposed smaller team. Everyone already predicted that the bigger team would unleash massive goals on the smaller team.

While the bigger team had well-known players in very big clubs playing, they were only depending on their individual strengths. The other team mostly came with local-based players but with a formidable team. Everyone could see the zeal and determination they exhibited and they all worked as a team. Surprisingly, the lesser team put an amazing performance and beat the bigger team. After the match, the captain, when he was interviewed by the press, made a shocking revelation that the reason behind their amazing performance was because they came as a team and not as players. This statement reminded me of a quote that a friend once made:

A group of small forces, if utilized correctly and acting together, can move a million tonnes.

The truth is that, no matter how skillful and talented you are as a goalkeeper, you cannot function as a striker at the same time. In the same way, your skills are limited if you want to achieve everything alone. It is worthy to note that productivity can be greatly multiplied by teamwork. As a matter of fact, by teamwork, you are leveraging on the strengths of the team mates, so as to make up for the weaknesses in each of them, and then achieve more. Obviously, you will agree with me that more is achieved when everyone acts together.

Another benefit of working as a team is that it can lead to more innovation and creativity. By the time each of the team members raise their own suggestions and contributions, you will be motivated by it and it will spur you to actions. This is also part of the reasons you need a team, but much more than that, you need a good team that has a common goal. A broomstick cannot form a bunch with a matchstick even though they are both sticks. In the same way, your team should have a common goal so that the innovation will be centered around it.

When you form a team with like-minded people, it will be easier to brainstorm and raise creative, innovative, brilliant, and intelligent ideas that will be beneficial to the success of the organisation. More so, it will enable each one to see things from the other team member's point of view and raise suggestions around it, or even constructive criticism about it. In addition, when an idea is raised, it can effectively be planned or even tested within the team to know the potency and effect it will have on the organisation, instead of just one person coming to the organisation to drop an untested idea that the effect is not known.

In a team, also, communication and interpersonal relationship are enhanced. This is because you will need these skills to function well in the team. So as you are working to improve the organisation in your team, you are also indirectly improving on yourself and your own skills too. In conclusion, if success is your desire, then you have to learn to work as a team.

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