Build and manage effective teams

Working in teams and encouraging effective teamwork among your staff can bring many benefits and competitive advantages to your business.

Business benefits of teamwork

Advantages of effective teamwork in the workplace include:

Increased productivity

Individuals contributing to help a team produce results will feel valued, supported, and committed to each other. This can lead to happier, productive, and more motivated staff.

Deadlines met

Individuals working on their own can only achieve so much in a certain amount of time. Bringing individuals together to work in teams can increase productivity, make heavy workloads more manageable, and help meet tight deadlines sooner.

Problem solving

Teams bring together different people with different ways of thinking, varying levels of experience, and different ideas of how to do things. Several people coming together to consider a problem can often be more effective at finding solutions than one person working alone.

New ideas and opportunities

Teamwork can spark creativity among your staff, which can lead to the development of innovative new ideas, products, or services, as well as identifying new business opportunities.

Support network

In the face of business challenges, people in a team can support one another by helping each other out, especially if an individual in the group is facing difficulties.

Strong relationships

Teamwork helps build strong bonds between colleagues. Team members learn about each other, developing a better understanding of individual strengths, weaknesses, and personal traits. Through stronger relationships, trust is built and communication becomes more natural, open, and free.

Flexibility

Working in teams can help transfer skills and knowledge between individuals. This can lead to more flexibility as individuals will be able to cover for other team members.

Conflict resolution skills

There is often the potential for personality clashes between individual team members, but collaborating towards shared goals often enables employees to work out how best to resolve disagreements for the benefit of the team.

Boost morale

Teamwork can help increase staff morale as individuals will have a sense of belonging to the team and appreciation from others for the qualities they bring to the group.

To get the most from teamwork for your business, see steps to building an effective team in the workplace.