Teamwork forms the essential element of any organisation. The better the teamwork the more successful the organisation is and you as an individual if you are a team player, if you know how to work in a team, you will achieve success in everything you do. Teamwork is the art of collaborating with others effectively. Different pieces of large puzzles come together, with different workers taking on different puzzle pieces.

In an organisation, you have a team and in a team every member has a different sort of job and all these jobs combine together to achieve the goals of the organisation. Without a team, an organisation can not be successful. People have different working styles, many people would like to interact more, many people like to just sit quietly and work and this is what teamwork is all about where you understand what working style of an individual is and according to it you develop that teamwork and you get productivity out of the same person.

Interpretation and adaptation ensure that you work well together so even if a person in your team is not technically sound but has good communication skills, you as an individual need to identify what are the positives of your team allocate work according to these skills and the expertise the person has. A team is a relatively small number of people that share common goals, rewards and responsibilities for achieving them. In theory, teamwork is simple, most of us already know what it requires but in practice teamwork is difficult.

Building a team is a process, one that requires remarkable levels of discipline, courage and persistence. But it is really important to understand the reason why people should work in a team spirit and what are the benefits of working in a team. There are an enormous number of benefits of teamwork so here are 20 benefits of teamwork-

1. Stress Reduction

• Today in the corporate world or even in government organisations, you will see there is a lot of pressure. Peer pressure, your subordinates have a lot of pressure, your boss gives you a lot of pressure. Pressure in terms of stress is the amount of work which you have to do in a short span of time. If you have a good team who interacts and enjoys within that working environment, you reduce your stress and you perform better. Working alone often leads to isolation and an increase in stress level. Team members offer an outlet for stress.

2. Improve Communication

• Individuals in different departments often develop an “us-vs-them” mentality about people working in other areas of the business. Teamwork leads to better coordination and healthy business relationships. The more you are good with your communication skills, the better connect you will have with all the employees in the organisation. There are different departments in every organisation and all the departments have their own team. But in order to achieve success all these departments have to have that team spirit.

3. Efficiency

• Every person brings a set of strengths and a set of weaknesses to the table. You need to understand that this particular person is good at this thing and you need to identify the particular work for him and give it to him so that he can give you the maximum productivity and help your team to achieve the goal. Effective leaders find it easy to delegate tasks that play to individual strength in presence of a strong culture of teamwork.

4. Improve Problem Solving

• This is a very important benefit of teamwork. If you work alone, you will have limited solutions to problems because you can only bring one perspective. However, if you  bring a team together and solve the same problem you will have a different kind of perspective on that same problem. Even the most creative individual will only generate a finite number of solutions to a problem. Better team work and more solutions to problems.

5. Harmonious office environment

• It is one of the benefits of teamwork which is critical for any person to work in any organization. The biggest companies in the world today have the most harmonious office environment. Only if people like the work culture, they will give their best and it will give more productivity out of them. So hence, there will be more effective workers. Teams that gel well are far more likely to impress clients, complete projects and seal deals. A company’s reputation often rests on how the team works.

6. Support System

• Whatever the size of your team, you need to support each and every member of your team. One of the benefits of teamwork is that you will get equal amounts of support from each member so that your team productivity gains better performance. For example- out of 5 team members if one person is not so good in sales, so a person who is very good in sales has to cover up the amount of less sales the other weak person is not able to make and this is called teamwork.

7. Removing Hurdles

• This is one of the biggest benefits of teamwork which is also the reason why people succeed in organisations. In any organisation there are people who will always come with hurdles and issues but you have to become the person who will come with the removal of the hurdles or issues. When you practice teamwork and work with a team then you will find many people with the same hurdles removing skills and they will be the issue solver which is highly beneficial for a smooth and long run.

8. Listening and Feedbacks.

• Listening and giving feedback are so important for any project. Many times you will see people when they work individually, in their office environment they do not listen to the other person. In hence, most of the time they don’t get, not only in a better relationship, interpersonal relationship but also many of the problems don’t get solved. So in order to have a better performance and better result you need teamwork where you can share ideas, experiments and listen to the feedback.

9. Conflict Management.

• No matter where you work within your family or in an organisation everywhere you will have conflicts. Conflict management is a very important benefit of teamwork. Every team has a leader and in order to manage conflicts and smooth sailing, you would need a good leader or good manager because people will come up with different problems, different conflicts and a good leader solves those conflicts with the help and support of the team and creates a win-win situation for all.

10. Speed

• Let’s suppose there is a project that needs research, compiling a proposition, financing and implementing it, and delivering specific benefits. If one person was allocated to this task, it could take him months and maybe even years to make it happen. But by splitting up the work, the progress could happen at an impressive rate. This also makes it faster to reach a final goal as soon as possible which positively affects the organisation’s reputation.

11. Satisfaction

• Individuals who are working together as a single unit to achieve a common objective are continually improving. As the team members interact with one another, more energy and enthusiasm is created towards their work. When this energy is put into accurate use, it produces better and quicker results, which positively impact motivation and lead to even more success. Success is something which gets doubled when it gets shared with people which gives us immense satisfaction.

12. Pillar Strength

• When people get together to work in a group, they tend to build bonds between each other. People will often go to what seems like extreme lengths when they know that they can rely on the support and encouragement of the team. This would often lead to finding an extraordinary skill in an individual of that team which at the end, gives a good result for the team. Never underestimate the significance of this in achieving results.

13. Encouragement

• When a group or team develops there can be a process of mutual encouragement. The support of various talents and abilities can produce an extremely productive team. When one’s strengths can support another’s weakness encouragement can evolve. Many times when a person is working individually he tends to play safe and not experiment with various beneficial ideas but when you when you work in a team you get enough encouragement to play your ideas which have been in your mind only.

14.  Innovation

• When successful teamwork prevails, innovation increases. It is true that two heads can be better than one. Members of a team can brainstorm for solutions together, working out the kinks in project plans to reach goals more efficiently. The more people there are in a strong team, the more ideas and innovations you will get in order to achieve your success in a less time. The best part is that you will get the encouragement and support to innovate.

15.  Unity

• One of the most valuable benefits of teamwork is the sense of unity that accompanies a positive work environment. By implementing this sense of unity, it can promote a sense of togetherness. This can create a mentality of ‘all for one and one for all’, which is good for the goal of the organisation. When you work in a team, you share your success and you have people with you to share even when you lose which helps in learning and upgrading yourself which you can not get while working individually.

16.  Creativity

• Everyone has different skills, knowledge, experience and personal attributes. By utilizing all of these different aspects in a team, more ideas can be generated which leads to better results. If a person is working individually on a project, no matter how creative he is, he can only come with limited ideas but when you work in a team of creative people, you will get unlimited ideas, innovations and creativity which will enhance your project results dramatically.

17.  Ownership

• Working towards achieving company goals allows employees to feel connected to the company that leads to a higher level job satisfaction among employees. Every person is responsible for certain tasks in a team and he is authorized to complete that task. When you are in a team you have a sense of ownership towards that company or project because you know that a lot of steps in the completion of the project depended on your well completion of your task.
  

18. Healthy Risk-Taking.

• Team members have the support of the entire group to fall back on in case of failure, allowing them to take more risks. A lot of companies and people fail to succeed because they don’t take risks due to the fear of failure and they ignore the benefits, advantages and success they will get if only they would have taken that risk. That’s when the teamwork comes into play. A team always supports you and gives you a free space to take risks and share the result equally.

19. Encourage Collaboration.

• When there is efficient teamwork, it allows team members to take a look at everyone else’s positions and roles and see how everyone is essential to the end product. This will develop trust through communication, working on projects and activity engaging one another to meet collective goals. People generally gravitate towards companies or businesses that are filled with happy people and that seem to demonstrate a strong work ethic and team spirit.

20. Synergy

• Synergy happens when qualified people align on a common objective. The measure of success is not working just how many hands are working but making a team and doing what it takes to fulfill the mission. Each member must know the plan and follow the strategy. Each task requires a proper response to accomplish which is very well played in a team. By confronting our failure, we come closer to reaching perfection when each member accepts full responsibility and strives for excellence.