Effective teamwork

Effective teamwork and group communication are essential to your professional and personal success. In this course you will learn to: make better decisions, be more creative and innovative, manage conflict and work with difficult team members, negotiate for preferred outcomes, improve group communication in virtual environments, develop better overall understanding of human interaction and work more effectively as a team. Our goal is to help you understand these important dynamics of group communication and learn how to put them into practice to improve your overall teamwork.

 In short, effective teamwork in the workplace occurs when team members cooperate to achieve a common goal while delegating and sharing responsibilities to support each other.

 It is well known how important good cooperation is in the team. Teams that are cohesive and work well together are more engaged and productive, according to research by Gallup1.

 Individual employees perform to their highest potential in effective teams because they feel supported in their efforts to accomplish their tasks.

 But achieving this sense of unity is easier said than done. Why? One possibility is that your staff members never see successful teamwork in action. In addition, teams are often comprised of diverse individuals with vastly different experiences in the workplace and the world of work.

 Traits of an effective team include the ability for the team to be productive, for people to truly feel happy in their workplace, to focus on and develop their individual strengths, to be able to communicate, and to have mutual respect among team members.