Teamwork

“Teamwork coming together is a beginning, keeping together is a progress, working together is success”. Henry Ford.

Teamwork is an intention of different people to work together for specific purpose in order to achieve the same aim. Team works are needed everywhere in all aspects of society. Also, teamwork is made to gather people who are interested in one thing, who have complementary skills, negotiable and who feel responsibility towards each other when doing the tasks that are spread between team members. Saying about the Role concept within teamwork it was firstly used to understand people’s behaviors in the environment. Relating Belbin’s theory of teamwork and team roles there are several types of roles that people in the team belong to. They are divided into three groups: Action makers, Social and Thinking oriented. Personally, every team member is important in the process of team work and the personality of every team member is affected to the team’s effectiveness. According to Belbin’s theory the discussion process of the team work goes through four steps: • Forming; • Storming; • Norming; • Performing.
Our opinion towards this constructive cycle is that if the team passes through all mentioned steps above, then in the end it appears to be successful teamwork. As the topic or issue is formed, then discussed, shared opinions about this formation among each other, negotiated the meanings of every team member and come up with the same opinion and performed together. It is mentioned that teams failures are influenced by diverse hidden agendas. We would like to argue with one point out of five that it is not considered as fail in teamwork. For instance, covering up past errors is not an agenda that brings the team the failure. As far as we understand that there is no success without failures, thereby learning from previous mistakes and being able to cover them up is an irreplaceable skill of leader. We understand it as there is no team without a leader. So, covering up previous mistakes is necessary tool to success in every team work. Also, in Belbin’s theory of team roles the role named Coordinator/Chairman refers to a Leader in the team. The other aspect of team fails is a groupthink, which explains several points and we do agree with all of them, as they are the obstacles that complicates the team work and prevents team members to come to a consensus. Also, other items of groupthink directly influence on team work fails. As if in the team one of member or several of them keep the words and do not open their opinions fully, and if the person is a dissenter it is a mistake to show a pressure so that his opinion matches with the rest. In this issue it is preferably to be able to hear what every member of the team says, thinks and try to negotiate and come to same conclusion without any forces or pressures. We support all the mentioned ways of avoiding groupthink, because they all are profitable towards teamwork and makes the team work stronger and integrated. We are a team which consists of three people. According to our teamwork we shared roles among each other and Nazerke was a Coordinator, Dana was Monitor-Evaluater and Akerke was Plant. Obviously in our team we didn’t have all roles according to Belbin’s theory. But, through the process of team work we realized that the roles that we headed are quite enough Also, as we described above that personality of every member affects on team work and our abilities to hear and share opinions, discuss, negotiate and have a positive groupthink brought us to consensus.