| Working in a team at your workplace can be a boon if | | | | strategies put in place well in advance. The team |
| you have good people around and there is enough | | | | leader should be able to lead from the front and should |
| understanding. However, it could also turn out into a | | | | be able to keep team goals above personal |
| nightmare if the people you are working with are not | | | | objectives. A good team leader is fair, objective and |
| compatible or competent enough. If your job profile is | | | | exemplary. He/she should be good at delegating |
| such that it requires working in a team, then you have | | | | responsibilities and ensuring that the work is fulfilled in |
| to be a good team player and a good team player | | | | time. The leader should be able to guide and mentor |
| ensures good work not just personally but also for the | | | | the team. |
| whole team. While individual performance matters and | | | | In a team, it is natural that there will be conflicts of |
| is important, what is more important is the collective | | | | opinion because there are so many heads working |
| output of the team. So, at times, you would need to | | | | together. However, it is conflict management and |
| keep your preferences and opinions aside for the | | | | abandoning of ego that can lead to conflict resolution. It |
| common interest of the team. | | | | is the job of the team leader to ensure that a conflict |
| The first and foremost mantra for good team work is | | | | is resolved tactfully and objectively without hurting |
| the ability to communicate one’s point well. This | | | | anybody personally and keeping the team’s |
| applies to all types of job places. Whether you are in a | | | | common goal in mind. For that, it is important to build |
| banking job, marketing job or technical jobs like | | | | the trust of the team so that they believe that no |
| software job , it is unhindered and effective | | | | difference in opinion can mar the team’s overall |
| communication that leads to good team work. Team | | | | performance. |
| members should be able to communicate with each | | | | If the goals are clearly defined and everybody is |
| other in an unrestricted but polite manner. The key is to | | | | assigned roles as per their strengths, the chances of a |
| be assertive but not aggressive. While talking to the | | | | team not working well are remote. It is then the duty of |
| team members, one cannot get pushy. Also, the | | | | the team leader to ensure that the team works in |
| communication with the team leader should be a | | | | tandem and the job at hand is accomplished |
| two-way affair where subordinates are allowed to | | | | satisfactorily. The learning is high while working in a |
| present their point of view. | | | | team because people get to learn form each other |
| The leader of the team should be strong enough to | | | | and also from the conflicts that they are faced with. |
| take decisions and have effective implementation of | | | | The key is to be open-minded and accepting opinions |
| that plan. For any team to work in coherence, it is | | | | of others too. If one understands these basic tenets of |
| important that the goals are defined well and the | | | | working in a team, success can’t be far. |