Do you know that teamwork can not only accomplish small tasks but can reach your team goals which is the big agenda of your team? Effective teamwork certainly promises a valuable experience and is a vast forum for learning to address work activities. As quoted above, cooperation and intelligence (intelligence) can win something bigger than the job without any teamwork.
Surely everyone has different ways of working, some are accustomed to working alone and some are more like working together in completing the task. In the world of work, cooperation is one important element in terms of achieving goals. For those of you who are not used to working with other people, then you start practicing yourself because working together in teams will produce greater output than working individually. In addition, teamwork will also take you to familiarize yourself with your coworkers.
Why building cooperation is important? In working in an agency or company would require the synergy of each team between departments to achieve the overall target. This can happen by building cooperation. In addition, on an individual level, cooperation is important as a vessel that is useful for deepening interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, or how to know or interact with colleagues or with superiors. Behind it, it is also beneficial for the development of each individual because it can exchange ideas and provide feedback in the process of working together tasks.
Establishing solid and effective teamwork is sometimes a challenge, but it can be realized with the following steps.
Building trust and mutual respect
A team should be established based on strong interpersonal beliefs. Besides that every team member will be better if each other respect each other's positions. Why? With strong mutual trust and mutual respect it will make it easier to work with others and leaders can delegate tasks that their team members can do well.
Set shared expectations
Of course every person has a different career achievement spirit, it will be better to align expectations in the team. This is done to find out what they expect from each teamwork activity. Surely not only set expectations, but also try to jointly meet them.
Team leaders who can facilitate communication among team members
It is important to create an open, honest and respectful communication atmosphere. Each team member is entitled to express himself in the form of thoughts, opinions, even solutions that address the problems the group encounters. They are also open to hearing and being heard to understand each other's thoughts. In addition, an atmosphere of openness where team members can also ask a number of questions to clarify the ideas thrown. This is better than breaking every idea that comes to the surface.
Inculcating mutual belonging in the group (Sense of belonging)
Team members who have clear expectations and communication about the group's goals will have a commitment to team action and action. Mutual attitudes will deepen as team members spend time together developing norms or guidelines that apply to teams together. In addition, team leaders should include team members in the decision-making process as a realization of teamwork together.
See the positive side of dissent
The fundamental difference of working with self-employment is the number of heads who pour ideas into work. Disagreements are two sides to a coin, can be viewed as an obstacle or as a benefit. Should we put a positive lens in view of a phenomenon in interacting with some people, this means that there is another point of view that can be considered as a chance that can be traced and used for the benefit of the body.
Assess team performance and feedback
After you finish teamwork, do not forget to review the team's performance expectations and goals. Also do not forget to ask for feedback from your teammates. It is necessary to measure whether the achievement of your team's performance. Well, from here you can see the space to improve performance for the next team project. In addition, after seeing the team's performance, you can provide rewards (rewards) and incentives as necessary to motivate all team members for better performance in the future and as proof of appreciation for cooperation.
