Working Together As A Team: The Power Of Teamwork

If you get a stick of broom and bend it, you will easily break it without even putting much effort into it. However, when you join other broomsticks to it to form a bunch, breaking it will become almost impossible. There is a limit to which your individual effort can take you to but it can be amplified by having the input of others. In an organisation for example, there are many people working towards a common goal and that makes the work to move. This is called teamwork.

In a team, everyone's input is as important as everyone else and you should acknowledge that in order to maximise the full benefits of the team. If a team member is made to believe that his value is less important than someone else, you may lose his input and a void will be created. Imagine in a football match, if the only attention goes to the players and they see the goalkeeper as being less important, he may become the bane of the team. Imagine if the goalkeeper lets in everyone shot on target into the net, no matter how good your strikers are, you may concede more goals that you score.

In the human body, what makes it complete and healthy is when each of the individual organs work together as a complex whole. Imagine if the other parts of the body gang up against the stomach because they think it does nothing else apart from taking in food, the whole body will be affected. For example, if the hand refuses to bring food to the mouth or if the mouth refuses to ingest food, the stomach will have nothing to take in and the whole body will eventually become weak and ill. So to maintain balance, the whole body should work in cooperation with each other.

It is true that every human has their own weakness, but the truth is that they also have their own individual strengths. So working as a teamwork simply means the way of combining the strengths of each of the members so as to override their weakness. It is when everyone in a team complements each other that a formidable team will be formed and the benefits will be evident. A good team is not entirely dependent on the strengths of the individual members but how they have collectively put their strength to work.

It is possible for a team to have many members with individual strengths and still be weak on the overall. And it is still possible for a team to have average members and still pull a formidable force. I once watched a particular football competition some months back between a team that has abundant of world's top rated footballers (including the former world's best player) and another team with a supposed average players. However, at the end, the team with the average players pulled a surprised victory over the stronger team with an unbelievably big margin. This is because, even though they were not big names literally, they were able to work together to form a fine team, while the other team was only depending on individual talent. It was then that I realized one thing; a good team is basically a result of every single person in the team (minus none) working in cooperation to each other and not being centered on themself alone.

You have to understand that you are not more important than the rest of the team members, so learn to work with them and do not let "overinflated ego" deny you of being part of something beautiful. Even if someone is not getting his function right, instead of being too quick to pass judgment on him and make him lose the morale to pull through, you can simply put him through and emphasis more on his strengths instead of just focusing on his weakness. Always remember that to make a good team, whether in your organisation, or at any place, you need to consolidate more on the strengths of people. Let them know that they have strength and abilities that lie within them. This will help to massage their ego and they will put in their best towards the course of the team.

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