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TEAMWORK - WORKING TOGETHER FOR SUCCESS
Marian Baltazar
Class of 1980, University of the Philippines College of Manila
AB Political Science
The importance of teamwork cannot be discounted, for it holds very true, like the saying of Henry Ford,
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” It actually
highlights the importance o...f working together as a team. When individuals have a common taste, preference,
liking and attitude, they get together and form a team. They work together for a common goal and that is the
sole reason why teams play a very important role in our personal lives as well as in organizations too.
Employees are dependent on his fellow employees to work together and thus they prove to contribute and
work efficiently as well.
In organizations, no employee can work alone; he needs his fellow employee so they can work together and
contribute efficiently. Any employee needs the help of his colleague to accomplish something and come up
with something at its best. This is reason why teamwork is essential to any organizations, for it generates a
better output and it creates a better bonding among employees. Definitely in all organizations, tasks should not
be pending for a long time because there is a certain time frame and targets to be met and it needs to generate
revenues too. A single brain can’t come up with solutions and decisions alone for he needs someone to discuss
his ideas with to arrive at a conclusion.
In a team, every individual gains knowledge from each other. This is very true for each individual in a team has
different ideas and different set of qualities. Not only that, they also get to share their workloads that imbue
levels of specialization for the success of the team. As the saying goes, “Two heads are better than one,” very
well explains the true meaning of what teamwork is. Whether it is in the field of business or in your personal
life, teamwork is of great importance. I am pretty sure that everyone knows how paramount the concept of
teamwork is.
Teamwork and its importance were ingrained in us since our childhood days. Didn’t our parents teach us that
siblings should learn how to work and share with one another? In school, students are taught how to work in a
project together or even win games together. Even in our marriage, the two parties should join hands and learn
how to work as a team in raising their family. More importantly, in our workplaces, where we are expected to
fit in work as a team, all of these connotes that teamwork is essential to our life.
Working together must be very taxing but it surely has its own rewards. What teamwork does is that it builds
one’s personal skills. It doesn’t deal with “wins” alone but in focuses too to each and everyone’s individual
growth as a person per se. So we can ultimately say that teamwork is working together towards a goal, of being
a success.
Questions for discussion:
1. How do you work as a team in your workplace? Describe it.
2. What is the importance of teamwork for you?
3. Have you experienced to work as a team and achieve your goal? How?
4. Do you think you can do without teamwork and just work alone all the time? Why or why not?
5. How frequent do you experience working as a team? Does it give you confidence? Explain your answer.