In hospitals, every study proves that patient care gets better as teamwork gets better. The same goes for the timely precision in an Irish dancing performance, as well as the impact of successful corporate teams. Teamwork isn’t a corporate platitude … it’s a under-valued and under-served necessity!
Why is this?
Because teams that know how to work together, work better.
It’s not about working faster; it’s about collaborating and collecting ideas, building a shared mission and executing it.
It’s also about helpfulness.
Helpfulness is collaboration, it’s the definition of working together. When your employees aren’t competing, but are combining skillsets, the team’s value skyrockets.
But as Dostoyevsky said, “men are not piano keys.”
Culture has to be real. Teamwork can only bloom from a feeling of safety and support — and that has to start with your leadership. You have to trust your people, and then they’ll be able to trust each other.
And together, you’ll be able to build something incredible.
Teamwork benefits all of us.
- As does watching excessive amounts of Riverdance! Its collaboration, in action!
