Advantages of Working in a Team

Working in a team has various advantages over working independently. Working in a team helps bring out ideas of different members and diversified opinions can be given. Here are some advantages of working in teams.

1) Teams can arrive at better decisions as compared to individuals, because more people are able to provide their opinions on a certain issue or task.

2) Develop Skills:  Being a part of a team helps individual team members to develop their interpersonal skills such as speaking and listening, as well as working with and motivating others. These skills are usually appreciated by the employers.

3) Increase in Productivity and Performance: Groups working together can achieve more as compared to people that are working on their own. Teams have a broader range of skills as each member may possess a specific quality or skill, which may be of use to the other team members in order to complete the given task.

4) Increase in Efficiency

5) Knowing more about yourself: Being a part of team helps its members to identify what their strengths and weaknesses are, and it provides them an opportunity to work on them and improve them as a whole, which would be beneficial for the entire team.

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