A team is a group of people with complementary skills who perform a task to achieve common results. Ultimately, a work team is made up of professionals with complementary skills who must achieve a common goal.

Importance of Teamwork

Reasons why teamwork is important:

• To swap roles
• So that decisions are consensual
• To enhance the achievements of the parties
• To facilitate cooperation, autonomy, and motivation
• The task of forming work teams is not easy, however, its importance is key to the performance of organizations.
  

Surely you remember experiences in which you have been part of a work team and where the interaction of people was the key to an amazing result.

Let's see some examples:

• Teamwork is what allows the success of soccer teams. True teams have proven that they succeed when they go beyond individualities. Coaches proclaim the importance of building a team beyond relevant figures. This same example could be extrapolated to other sports disciplines.
• In theater plays, the magic of the show is not centered on each one of the actors, but, on the contrary, a true play depends on the integration of everyone’s talent.
  

The situations described show the potential of teams and their importance beyond individualities.

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Benefits of teamwork

• It allows the combination of talents from different areas when integrating cross-functional teams.
• The combination of the differences allows the solutions that are provided to be more creative and innovative by observing the problems from different angles.
• More information is obtained on the subject discussed since each of the participants contributes an additional dose of knowledge.
• There is a better decision-making process.
• The integration that takes place in the team allows its members to develop all their potential, also expanding their capabilities.
• Teamwork is considered more motivating than individual work.
• Develop a more open and decentralized leadership style. But perhaps the most important advantage of work teams is synergy.
  

However, synergy is not always positive.

Let's see an example:

The sales director of a nationwide department store has decided to form a special team to prepare a report on customer satisfaction of the company's services. The team is made up of six people, all from the sales area, but with different geographical areas. Due to geographical and time limitations, the team met only once and it was one of the members who ended up making the report agreed with the director.

The previous case is an example of negative synergy. Not all team members contributed and collaborated in the same way. This type of behavior in the team reduces the effectiveness of working together and limits the potential for synergy.

That is why it is important that all team members develop their potential to benefit from the effects of positive synergy.

Synergy is the sum of individual energies that multiplies progressively, reflecting on the entire team. In this way, in human behavior, the work of two people is more than the simple sum of the parts. The result obtained is different from individualities.

The graphical way of representing it would be like this: 1 + 1 = 3

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