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When Teamwork Is Effective

If you see a group of employees doing all they can to reach a universal goal that benefits everybody, then it is clear to see that teamwork is truly present in them. Though companies and businesses definitely realize the value of teamwork, it can sometimes be tough implementing it and ingraining this culture in employees, at least at first.

One possible reason is that most people have been taught all their lives to be successful alone and separately from others. Since we were young, most of us were raised to be the best we can be, and that meant doing everything we could to be better than everybody else. We were asked to beat the others in our way to glory, and it made it seem like everything is all right in the world if we did win.

Although retreats and team-building seminars help a lot in making the workplace more harmonious, the fact that things can still go back to where they were only goes to show that these can still be insufficient in some sense. Rather, it is only one of the ways to promote teamwork.

Clay and Tom used to work together in an advertising company. Both graduated from the same school and both have families that live in the suburbs. Clay is a Human Resources manager. He is a hard worker and has a reputation for being amiable to the employees and genuinely enjoys helping others. People say he is fun to work with and occasionally jokes with people as well. Meanwhile, Tom works as a Computer Analyst manager. Known to be friendly and quiet, he graduated with high honors and excels in his line of work. Tom mostly spends long hours in front of the computer and not as much time with his co-employees. Due to this, he is not sidetracked from work and usually finishes his job ahead of time. Now, both of them were requested by the company to team-up to work on special project, which meant they had to get along.

So, we can see there that despite being two very different persons, their skills were still crucial to the success of the project. Even though Clay is worlds apart from Tom, there is no way to say which is better because both them did well. And this goes to show how teamwork should work, balancing all the "negative" aspects and keying in on the positives.

Due to this, companies think that teamwork is still the general rule one should follow to be more effective. The thing falls to striking a balance to make the engine running.

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