Teams in the 21st Century Reflection

Teams in the 21st Century Reflection

Teamwork and performance are crucial within sports if your goal is to win the game. In the past couple of months I have learned many things from collective teamwork. And luckily I have become a successful player. My individual performance counts a lot when I play with my team against our competitors. I always try my best to motivate our team members to win the final competition. In the result, our team has won many awards in athletics.

Similarly, team in the workplace is perhaps the most powerful organisational concept. Teams provide superior motivation (Clements & Gido, 2009), enhanced coordination, improved problem-solving and better decision-making. This presentation does come at a value. Usually decision in our team is slow, and the growth of our team into successful entities is more slower. Our workplace team need training and months to grow. Nevertheless, the benefits are more important than the difficulties and frustrations in most circumstances. For example, when managers speak of teamwork, they usually have a vague mental picture of individuals at a table engaging in polite discussion. They may envision people willingly assisting others from a different part of the organisation. Such groups may or may not be teams, and such behaviours may or may not constitute teamwork. Strong teams are individuals with a high level of social formation. Their members exhibit specific forms of behaviour that allow the group to function smoothly toward specific goals.

For example, we frequently neglect clash for effective teamwork. But clash is natural, even enviable. If clash is not observable, either we are thinking alike, or we are suppressing it. Neither situation promotes teamwork. Successful teams gain much of their power from different thoughts, manners and experience. Without it, clash is lessened, but the resulting decisions ...