The Importance of Common Goal in a Team
“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.” - Bill Bradley (American retired NBA Basketball Player)
You hardly ever hear the word supervisor anymore in organizations that over the last 20 years have embraced teams and teamwork as an effective way of doing business. It’s the norm to find Team Leaders in companies because employee motivation and morale improves dramatically when people feel valued and when their contributions make a difference. Anyone would tell you that it’s good to be part of something worthwhile.
It’s all well and good to want to work in a team, however, managing teamwork is challenging and some organizations fail to gain the benefits that teamwork can provide. Teamwork has to be well managed. A balanced team composition is essential. Team members have to be carefully selected. The full range of knowledge and skills required must be present. Team members need to be committed to the task.
Team composition is critical for success. Working together is essential. Harmony and a positive attitude are critical. If the team is not working together, then the expected gains will not materialize.
An understanding of the common goal/task is also critical. People have to be clear as to why the team exists and what the purpose is.
A team is a group of people made up of individuals who each contribute their individual knowledge and skills. Synergy, where the collective whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts, often occurs where teamwork is working well. Teams benefit because individuals often do not have all the knowledge and skills necessary. Teamwork as a concept has grown over the last 20 years. However, teamwork success is not automatic. Teams have to be established for the right reasons. Team member selection is very important, as is ensuring that the team purpose is clear and agreed upon. To help you realize the importance of common goal in a team, here are some points for personal reflection:
Is teamwork used extensively in your organization?
Are teams achieving what you expected?
Are teamwork problems being addressed?
You hardly ever hear the word supervisor anymore in organizations that over the last 20 years have embraced teams and teamwork as an effective way of doing business. It’s the norm to find Team Leaders in companies because employee motivation and morale improves dramatically when people feel valued and when their contributions make a difference. Anyone would tell you that it’s good to be part of something worthwhile.
It’s all well and good to want to work in a team, however, managing teamwork is challenging and some organizations fail to gain the benefits that teamwork can provide. Teamwork has to be well managed. A balanced team composition is essential. Team members have to be carefully selected. The full range of knowledge and skills required must be present. Team members need to be committed to the task.
Team composition is critical for success. Working together is essential. Harmony and a positive attitude are critical. If the team is not working together, then the expected gains will not materialize.
An understanding of the common goal/task is also critical. People have to be clear as to why the team exists and what the purpose is.
A team is a group of people made up of individuals who each contribute their individual knowledge and skills. Synergy, where the collective whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts, often occurs where teamwork is working well. Teams benefit because individuals often do not have all the knowledge and skills necessary. Teamwork as a concept has grown over the last 20 years. However, teamwork success is not automatic. Teams have to be established for the right reasons. Team member selection is very important, as is ensuring that the team purpose is clear and agreed upon. To help you realize the importance of common goal in a team, here are some points for personal reflection:
Is teamwork used extensively in your organization?
Are teams achieving what you expected?
Are teamwork problems being addressed?
posted by Yandaro @ 9:12 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Teamwork comes from the common goal..one way to see how team works.
Common goals are important, but more importantly, the sincerity of the common goal is critical for the success of any team.
a common goal to build a team is critical. but not everyone can see the same goal even we are in a team and even how much we explain.
people alway see the next door grass are greener and fresher.
i have a question in my mind. why people always think others are better and ours are not. question here, have we put 100% effort to make sure our team to be a top performer team and be proud of it? rather than looking forward to join a "performer" team.
and yet they have not fully understand their own team common goal.
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