Team Dynamics in the Workplace

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Understanding team dynamics is essential to bring out the best performance from all team members in a professional environment. This ultimately results in achieving an organizational goal.

In recent years, we have witnessed a significant change in the way people work and in the way work is done by supervising authorities.

Earlier, companies preferred to assign tasks to staff members individually, which then needed to be completed in a stipulated time.

There was no involvement of employees in the decision-making process. Such a working style involved low or no creativity, the dedication that employees had was lower, and authorities were satisfied with work that was done on time and average performance.

But today, tasks and projects are assigned not to individuals but to a team. They are given the opportunity to use their creativity optimally which certainly leads to productive and excellent performance, which in turn helps the organization increase their profit-making capacity. But, working in a team is not always the easiest thing to do.

In fact, if there are different individuals working together, there will also be a certain level of misunderstanding.

Team dynamics refers to the interpersonal communication and interaction between team members which are generally unseen, but, have a great impact on how teams relate their tasks, and how a team reacts, behaves, and performs. All these factors ultimately play an important role in deciding the success of the team.

Obviously, a team that works positively would follow the path that travels to success and a team haunted by negative team dynamics would not be able to achieve its target or goal. Therefore, maintaining positive dynamics is advantageous for the organization.

Advantages of Positive Team Dynamics

Look at any of the most successful companies in the world, and you will notice that one of the biggest reasons behind their success is the happiness of the employees, and the fact that there is huge employee motivation at work, especially when they work as a team.

Achieving desired success is one of the biggest end results of any team, but, there are many more things that make this interdependent process of work not only a success, but also extremely important.

Assigning tasks and projects to teams is known to be more profitable than assigning tasks to different individuals.

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This is more so because dealing and networking with each individual who is working separately on the same project can become a task in itself. So, communicating with a single team is much easier and feasible.

A team that works well together promotes innovation, productivity, and increased levels of clear communication and coordination amongst all team members. It helps in better information sharing which leads to reduced mistakes and misinterpretations.

As mentioned here, working in a team also contributes to the productivity of the team members. It helps you decrease the alienating effect which can generally be experienced by individual staff members. Such alienation generally leads to increased absenteeism and increased monotony for the worker and thus, decreased profit for the company.

Working in a team ensures that every member is allotted certain tasks and responsibilities which he needs to fulfill and hence, the work is distributed equally unlike in case of individual work where a single person has to bear the brunt of all the tasks at hand.

A shared and accountable style of work can certainly lead to reduced stress, which reduces cases of absenteeism by providing team members with a sense of commitment and belonging.

Working in groups facilitates better problem solving during crisis situations where each team member can come with effective solutions and strategies to deal with problems. Such contribution promotes better quality of work even in imperfect scenario.

These are some of the primary advantages of developing team dynamics that are positive. It ensures that all team members are working with a vision which is similar to that of the organization. There are many activities for the workplace that can help you create a doubt-free, friendly, and healthy work culture in your company or organization.

Using the skills and talents of each member, addressing problems of and between team members, providing them with the right and required support and guidance as and when needed, can help you lead a team successfully.