Team Work

                   

Before writing anything about TEAM WORK I would like to share some words from the Holy books which may increase chances to accept the power of union work

I have 13+ years of commercial experience & I meet many kind of peoples in the corporate industry. I found all they are different from each other by nature.

Some people are working with good manner and associates with their team members. However, some peoples are not to be a part of team as a good member and doing the politics, immoral attitude & other non-required things etc as well as trying to pull down their co-workers and it is bad for the team and it is bad for that individual.

Please read this post with the complete story illustrated below, I am sure this will help you to know the benefits of team work.

Keep this note

We are much more efficient when we are willing to share with each other. And we are better problem solvers when we are working together, not individually.

Islam believes:

The Quran has stated the importance of team work in the following verse: Surely God loves those who struggle for His cause in ranks, as if they were a solid cemented structure. ( 61: 4) This Quranic verse gives the definition of teamwork: working together like a cemented structure.

Hinduism believes:

आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं
समुद्रमाप: प्रविशन्ति यद्वत् |
तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे
स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी || 70||

Once Arjuna asked Krishna: ‘Why Karna is known to be more liberal than me?’

Krishna to answer the question showed Arjuna a mountain of gold and asked him to give it to people in a single day.

Following the instructions, Arjuna went to the mountain and broke the mountain rock by rock to give to the people. He failed; It took him several days to complete it.

Now, same task was allocated to Karna. On the other hand, Karna gave all the people the required tools to break the mountain. He asked people to break the mountain and take whatever they wish. Everyone gathered and hit the mountain. They took away what they want and in few hours the entire mountain is vanished.

Christianity believes:

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

When individuals work together, they can double their strength and get much more done as a team. They also reap the value of having worked in unison, thus creating harmony instead of disorder. Working as one people begins with the efforts of each person, as they work with another person.

Short Teamwork Story

I love this story on teamwork I heard the other day. I think you will agree it is powerful.
A team of about 35 employees had come together for a team building event. They were a young, bright and enthusiastic team.

However, one big problem this team had was they wouldn’t share information or solutions with each other. The leader felt they were too focused on self and not enough on team.

So she started off with a fun team activity that would allow her to teach the importance of each team member working together and sharing more.

She brought the team into the cafeteria. All of the tables and chairs had been stacked and put away. Placed around the room were fun decorations and hundreds of different colored balloons.

Everyone was excited, but not sure what it was all about. In the center of the room was a big box of balloons that had not been blown up yet.

The team leader asked each person to pick a balloon, blow it up and write their name on it. But they were instructed to be careful because the balloon could pop!

A few balloons did indeed pop and those members of the team were given another chance, but were told that if the balloon popped again they were out of the game.

About 30 team members were able to get their name on a balloon without it popping. Those 30 were asked to leave their balloons and exit the room. They were told they had qualified for the second round.

Five minutes later the leader brought the team back into the room and announced that their next challenge was to find the balloon they had left behind with their name on it among the hundreds of other balloons scattered in the large cafeteria. She warned them however to be very careful and not to pop any of the balloons. If they did, they would be disqualified.

While being very careful, but also trying to go as quickly as they could, each team member looked for the balloon with their name. After 15 minutes not one single person was able to find their balloon. The team was told that the second round of the game was over and they were moving onto the third round.

In this next round the leader told the team members to find any balloon in the room with a name on it and give it to the person whose name was on it. Within a couple of minutes every member of the team had their balloon with their own name on it.

The team leader made the following point: “We are much more efficient when we are willing to share with each other. And we are better problem solvers when we are working together, not individually.”

Often times members of teams create obstacles that get in the way of teamwork by solely focusing on their own pursuits and goals. They hoard information, avoid collaboration and distance themselves. It is bad for the team and it is bad for that individual.

Every member of a team should ask themselves on a regular basis what they are doing for the team and can do for the team.

Moral of the story:

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

– Booker T. Washington