Topic: Team Work Vs Working Independently

In the name Allah the most gracious and MercifulWorthy and respectable teacher and my dear students. Assalam-o-Aliakum and

Good evening.

Today, the topic that I have come up with is “Teamwork Vs Working Independently”.

Andrew Carnegie once said “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results”.

Some people like to work independently, while others would prefer to work in a team. Is it more important to be able to work with a group of people a team or to work in a team independently? Depending upon different personal traits and working environment, people will have different answers to this question. I think being able to work in a team is more is more significant than other thing. To work with others can inspire their spirit and produce twice the result with half of the effort. In my opinion working in a team is more important than doing something independently.

Teamwork improves communication, it isn't just about exchanging information - it is about ideas, feelings, hopes and desires, we find this when we communicate with people we trust and respect. It is also about all those things that make us the individuals that we are. Admittedly, working in groups has many benefits. With your partners, the project can be finished faster. For example, when I studied in university, my group had a project in Wars of world. So we divided it into several parts such as wars in ancient, wars in modern. Then each of us did one part. In that way we could finish it sooner and also do more efficiently. Additionally, when you work in a group, you also have a chance to express your ideas and have the comment from others. It’s the good way to improve your presentation skills and certainly your knowledge also. That is why Henry Ford rightly said “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

The modern society and industry is a complicated system that requires team work, communication and cooperation among individuals and companies. Take a computer for an example, it comprises of hardware, operating system and software, which are manufactured separately by different companies. Not a single company can accomplish a computer system without using products and technologies from other companies. Similarly, in a company, communication and team work is more and more important among workers because a worker cannot do his/ her work properly without interacting with his supervisor and colleagues.

In addition we cannot live in a society independently and we need to communicate with each other, so communication skills are very important to the society. Through team work we can develop and improve this ability.

In business, the people, who are able to work with a group of people in a team, tend to communicate well others. In order to complete a sophisticated task, individual must work together, each sharing a part of the whole task in order to achieve the results. The team must interchange their ideas during each process in the form meetings and discussions. Each one tries his/ her level best to give a better idea to make the process more time-efficient. Skills for each member of team work will perk up. For example, teamwork will advance the communication skill. In addition, work in group will develop the ability of dealing with / different people. Furthermore, team work will pick up the talent of dealing with problems by dissimilar ways. As we can see the skills will improve and also we will see the effect of the competition

Competition between the members of team work is more important to success the work. For instance, work in group will create many/different ideas for the excellent work. As a result, teamwork will finish each part of the work in the best way. Consequently, work in group can make many tasks of work in short time.

There are many advantages of working in a group than working alone. Teamwork provides with a worker a cooperative, enjoyable and friendly work environment. The team can also be helpful in responding to worker’s problems and questions, therefore increases the work efficiency. The team work can also challenge one’s abilities and he/ she can acquire valuable experiences from it.

The ability of working independently does not contradict with the ability to work in a team. For example, in a team environment, I enjoyed being a major contributor to my team. The fact that others depended on my work made me feel like I was doing worthwhile things. For example, I was in charge of the Buisness Research Project. This was my valuable experience, because I came to know how important working in team is. So I learnt these things about teamwork and what makes it successful?

33% - getting along29% - listening21% - setting priorities6% - feeling recognized6% - having everyone agree4% - deciding who's in charge

Although one can complete a work independently with one’s innovation and sometimes can accomplish a perfect work with great complements many reasons show that throughout teamwork really can achieve more one can think of. No wonder, in formula 1 race, team order is the most important thing that every member in a team must obey.

Finaly, the most important quality in a work environment is the ability to work with others in a team. Steven Covey beautifully said “What we want is performance...What we ask for is teams...What we get is confusion!What we want is performance...What we should ask for is performance...What we will get is performance!