Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

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Table of Contents

The Introduction - 2

The Content (2-7)

Pros – 2

Leadership – 3

Cons – 4

Communication – 5

The Conclusion – 6

Reference Page – 8

Introduction

“Teamwork makes the dream work.” So, goes this famous catchphrase. Teamwork is essential to accomplish big tasks that otherwise would be hard to achieve one by itself, such as the recent Super Bowl when the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots. Now is every person going to be a team player or are they going to be just watching sitting on the bench? That is the question to be answered throughout our lives. To be able to work in teams provides substantially more positives than negatives. When we are assigned team projects for our classes, we need to be able to use teamwork to accomplish our goals. Sometimes in my work, we need to find the right balance of teamwork to accomplish our jobs. As you can see, the importance of teamwork is not to be understated for any aspects in our lives. So, in this report, I will analyze the pros and cons of teamwork, go over the leadership role in teamwork, and go over one essential aspect of teamwork, so as someone who reads this report, can use in their everyday lives.  

Pros

There are many reasons as to why working together while using teamwork is beneficial. The pros far outweigh the cons. Some of the biggest pros is that when working together as a team, you have a chance for many people, with multiple ideas get together to contribute to the cause. Sure, there will always be different ideas from everyone but that is the beauty of teamwork. You have many different people, all with different ideas trying to work towards the common goal of accomplishing a task assigned. Teamwork can be very efficient for all the people to collaborate all those different perspectives into a single idea (Joseph). Another pro about using teamwork is that tasks will be completed faster since many people can do part of a big project and then all come together to put it together at a faster pace than one individual can. Teamwork also has a way of getting the best out of everyone because you will always want to give your best effort for the collective(Wilcox). Of course, there comes a time when one member of the group clearly has more knowledge of the matter and will take the initiative to work on what they know best toward the team goals, while someone else can be better at doing some other task better. In the end, some big positives of working in a team will serve me well for my future career where it will be expected you know how to work as a team leader and follower.    

Leadership

Leadership has always been essential to any corporation in the business industry. If you have the right leadership in place, your company will be very successful. If you have bad leadership, your business can ultimately fail. That is why when developing as a team player there needs to be some assigned roles to work together for the greater cause (Sherrie). It can be very challenging but there needs to be someone who will be the leader of the team. By identifying a leader, they can do such things such as delegate duties to all the members of the team (Abraham). That way everyone plays a role in completing the assigned projects. They can set down the specific tasks to be accomplish and can get the best out of everyone in the team. The leader will usually be the one to initiate some type of action and provide everyone with something to accomplish (Sherrie). I have learned in the past on how to be a leader in certain projects and how to follow in other projects where I needed to follow. Throughout my college years I have learned how to work in many teams while being assigned to many distinct roles for the team. Working together while using teamwork can be seen in many aspects of the corporate world. In one of my friend’s job it is mandatory to work together while using teamwork. My friend works for Thermo Fisher Scientific as a warehouse lead. This means that they oversee getting all the packers running their duties for the shift as well as working together with the shipping desk and the manager. The packers are assigned two jobs in a day of work. One is the packer who will do most of the packing. The other is a puller, who will pull all the items necessary for the packer to be shipped that day. The packers must work together with the pullers to complete the orders. The orders are assigned everyday and there can be up to two thousand orders in a day. If all the workers want to go home on time, then it is in their best interests to work as a team. As can be shown in most other jobs, teamwork really goes a long way in getting things done faster and smarter. In the end, there is more benefits to working together as a team.

Cons

Who hasn’t been put in a group project before and then there is like five members in the group but only like two or three are ever only doing all the challenging work. I know I have back when I was taking a course in management and we had an assigned group project over a company. When it came time for presentation there was like two members that hardly ever participated. This can be incredibly frustrating especially towards those members that are putting in most of the challenging work. That is part of the cons of working together as a team. There will always be some pacifiers that will think that just by being in a group, is all they need to do. The matter of working together on a team can be very enticing for individuals. In the end though, it is very hard to accomplish, especially if you have some sour apples on the team. Another one of the cons of working together is the simple fact that some people do not like working and using teamwork. They feel that it is in their best interest to work alone. So, in getting people together and trying to combine everyone’s own ideas together can be very challenging. There can be people that also don’t communicate, or they just plain don’t trust others and so they choose to not work using teamwork. Another con of teamwork is that team members often encounter conflicts and timewasting (Quality). People can began getting distracted and waste time (Joseph). Also, with conflicts there needs to be a strong leader to resolve issues and to encounter the problem of time-wasting (Joseph). I have been guilty of sometimes not trusting my team/group for class projects. In a business law class, we were supposed to divide several chapters in the book to read and summarize individually. Then we would all get together and present the chapters that we were in charge off. At first, I thought it was a dumb idea because other people would not be putting effort into their own chapters. So, I thought it was useless to use teamwork. But in the end, by having the teacher lead us through what we needed to present helped everyone in the class. I put my trust issues aside and focused on the tasks that needed to be done. So, to accomplish bigger tasks it is better to work as a team. Companies nowadays will make it essential for us to work as a team and with all the modern technology that is being introduces on the daily, it will become almost mandatory for us to use teamwork in our everyday work.