How to achieve effective teamwork?

How effective teamwork work for objective achievement.

Through effective teamwork, members share responsibilities and balance each others competencies to keenly focus on the project at hand. They share a common project vision, a focus on deploying the project, high standards for quality and communication, and a willingness to learn.

Place equal value on each role

Placing equal value on each role enables unrestricted communication between the roles, increases team accountability. To be successful with this method, all roles must have ownership of the products quality, must act as customer advocates, and must understand the business problem they are trying to solve.

Clear Accountability, Shared Responsibility

A shared responsibility for doing work with a clear accountability can ensure the work gets done.

Within the team, each role is accountable to the team itself for achieving their role's quality goal. In this sense, each role is accountable for a share of the quality of the eventual solution. It is interdependent for two reasons: first, out of necessity, since it is impossible to isolate each role's work; second, by preference, since the team is more effective if each role is aware of the full picture. This mutual dependency encourages all team members to comment and contribute outside their direct area of accountability, ensuring that the full range of the teams knowledge, competencies, and experience can be brought to bear. All team members own the success of the project; they share in the kudos and rewards of a successful project and are expected to improve their expertise by contributing to and learning from the lessons of a less successful one.

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Empower Team Members

In an effective team, each member is empowered to deliver on their own commitments and has confidence that, where they depend on the commitments of other team members, that these will also be met.

Effective teamwork provides members with the degree of empowerment they need to meet their commitments. In return, it relies on the integrity and motivation of all team members to:

  • Be prepared to make commitments to others.
  • Clearly define the commitments they undertake.
  • Make every reasonable effort to deliver against those commitments.
  • Communicate honestly as soon as they ...

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