Teamwork and Motivation

Teamwork and Motivation

Introduction

Teamwork is an effective way to make learning related to field training and is a learning tool used in most training programs or vocational. Teamwork is also an effective way to facilitate personal development of the individual, to develop skills and attitudes conducive to assertiveness and healthy relationships with others. In this sense, teamwork is a tool for personal and social education when it provides the individual with opportunities to learn about each other, to recognize its limitations, to use his leadership to take responsibility for to others, to put forward their ideas and perspectives, to open up to others, to listen and question the ideas of others. Therefore, the following essay is going to evaluate the effectiveness of team work among city employees.

Discussions

Team Work and Methods of its Effectiveness

A team can be defined as a group of people interacting in order to gain or accomplish a common target, which implies a distribution of tasks and convergence of efforts of team members. This definition highlights three key features that present a work team:

a common target: an ultimate goal, to achieve a final product;

a task to operationalize: an operation that relies on the resources, tools and resources of each person and a specific procedure to follow;

the convergence of efforts of each member: collaboration, when performing tasks, which takes place in a healthy work environment and solidarity.

Benefits of Teamwork

Teamwork earns the person a chance to get to know the views of others and reflect on a number of ideas. It increases the awareness and collective action gives more results than individual work, as it increases the trust between the same groups and helps to make new friends. Thus, the mayor can take the following benefits by establishing the teamwork.

Knowledge sharing (additional skills),

Sharing the workload (work method)

Objectives common (mutual responsibility)

Collective Organization (increases the communication of team members)

A well-organized team performance increases no more effort

Stimulates creativity

Feeling of belonging (Jossey, Pfeiffer.2001)

Leads to better ideas and decisions

Produces higher quality results

There is a involvement of everyone in the process

Increases empowerment and engagement of members

High probability of implementation of new ideas

Widens the circle of communication

Information sharing means more learning

Increased understanding of the perspectives of others

Increases the ability to display individual strengths

Ability to compensate for individual weaknesses

Provides a sense of security

Develops relationship (Jossey, Pfeiffer.2001)

In overall, there are more advantages than disadvantages.  In a team, the strengths outweigh the weaknesses of each other and promote mutual assistance among members. Thus, the mayor can use teamwork to get the benefits and eventually solve the water

Communication Factors

Factors of communication are the set of all concepts that are needed to establish communication.

The issuer

Who transmits, is saying, gesturing or writing your message.

Receiver

Is the recipient of the message content, is the listener, who sees the gestures of the issuer or read their texts.

Message

It is the expression of the issuer, which he wishes to convey to the recipient. You can be words, movements that have meaning or significance ...