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Staying Productive when working with a Team

Published on December 13, 2009 in Business Tips, HowTo, Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: Productivity, staying productive, team members role, teamwork, working with a team.

Working with a team, big or small, can be a lot of fun. Of course, this can lead to disaster if your productivity begins to slip. Just because you are working with others does not mean that you should be passing off your work. Along with this, you need to make sure that you never fade into the background. For a team to be successful, no matter what the project, everybody needs to do their part and pull their weight.

Here are five tips for staying productive when working with a team:

1. Know your role. Before you ever get started every team member will probably be assigned a particular responsibility. You need to know your role and take it very seriously. This goes along with doing your part. If you concentrate on your part of the job everything else will begin to fall into place. This subject has already been debated in a recent post and we have seen how one can improve team performance by simply knowing its role.

2. Do not be afraid to ask team members for help. Many people think that this is a sign of weakness ? nothing could be further from the truth. It often times takes help from another to not only complete your job, but to stay productive while doing so.

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Improve team performance by simply knowing your role

Published on November 19, 2009 in Business Tips, HowTo, Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: build effective team, effective team, employee profile, employee role, improve performance, perfect team, Productivity, team member role, teamwork.

?Nobody?s perfect, but a team can be ?. Because this is my favorite saying about teamwork and because this is perfectly true, I was thinking to provide it more attention.

Let?s take a quick view over the teamwork definition (provided by Wikipedia): ?Teamwork is a joint action by two or more people, in which each person contributes with different skills and express his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group in order to achieve common goals?.

The fact that every human being is unique is a well known fact. Every employee has its personality, has specific skills and has always something new to learn. Let?s face it: nobody?s perfect and nobody knows everything. Continue reading ‘Improve team performance by simply knowing your role’