Car batteries typically last about four or five years. Replace your car battery before it dies and leaves you stranded. Unfortunately, car batteries arenât able to tell you when theyâre about to die. Thatâs why they seemingly die at the worst possible time and place, like the side of the highway at night.
Within a team, on the other hand, the members typically realise that the only way to achieve a goal that cannot be realised by one individual is to work together. It is this common purpose that binds and connects. Role awareness. Within any group, each individual is preoccupied with his/her own task and little is known or understood about the tasks of the other group members.
In this article we look at some of the common understandings of teamwork, but we also do something different. We look at the idea that itâs not just your definition of teamwork that counts. Itâs how your team define teamwork that can make all the difference between a definition that works, and one that is irrelevant. Thatâs because when you define teamwork together, itâs more likely to become a shared definition, and one that encourages commitment. With this in mind, the article finishes with a link to our teamwork definition tool, designed to help your team define teamwork.