Most businesses with more than one employee heavily rely on teamwork to complete their tasks and objectives.
Businesses having strong teamwork has become increasingly important, since employees with diverse skill sets are more common and careful collaboration is therefore a necessity.
Advantages and disadvantages of team working
Advantages:
○ The biggest advantage of working as a team is that the workload can be equally delegated individually, Therefore completing the task in a must more efficient and un-encumbering manner so each team member only has one portion of the project to focus all their abilities on. This leads to rapidly completing any task compared to doing alone.
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● If done with poor communication and management it way lead to confusion and the initial job may take longer.
● People sometimes may not get the sense of gratification they feel they deserve if they feel they did a larger share of work.
● If one team member doesn’t do the required work it affects everyone else’ work also.
Different types of team working
There is roughly 6 or so types of teamworking i will briefly mention and explain 6 of them.
Traditional
This team structure are the groups such as departments or divisions.
Leaders of these types of teams are designated by the business’ management and have power over the team. This team structure is usually expected to create a product, deliver a service, or resolve an issue that the business has assigned.
Leadership
Generally leadership teams are made up of management brought together to span the boundaries between different parts of the organization, in order for a service or product to be put on the market and come up with strategies for the product. This team type is used to create and implement new strategies and goals or maybe even a completely different direction for the …show more content…
This stage is so important to ensure there are no clashing down the line for example there is no point on having two leader type personalities on one team as it may cause problems.
Storming is when the team sits down and begins to work out their cohesion after a leader has been assigned by management unless the team type is a free formed group. This stage is used to work out any problems and to set clear goals and boundaries people may have.
Norming is the stage when team members have created some workable cohesion and begin to be more sociable with each other and start to really work together as a team unit, but this stage can sometimes revert back to the previous stage Storming as you may encounter some more challenges between members.
Performing is the stage when the hard work starts but the team at this stage
Should be very comfortable with one another and with no clashing ideally with
With the team leader delegating work and ensure all members are developing and contributing as much as