{"id":74,"date":"2025-08-07T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/chapter\/3-6-teamwork-opportunities-to-succeed\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:19:26","slug":"3-6-teamwork-opportunities-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/chapter\/3-6-teamwork-opportunities-to-succeed\/","title":{"raw":"3.5 Teamwork: Opportunities to Succeed","rendered":"3.5 Teamwork: Opportunities to Succeed"},"content":{"raw":"
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Working in teams to achieve a common objective presents unique opportunities and challenges. We first list ways we can succeed in teams and then provide challenges.<\/p>\n

The following characteristics are seen in effective teams (Whetton & Cameron, 2007):<\/p>\n\n

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  1. Members depend on each other. When team members rely on each other to get the job done, team productivity and efficiency are high.<\/li>\n \t
  2. Members trust one another. Teamwork is more effective when members trust each other.<\/li>\n \t
  3. Members work better together than individually. When team members perform better as a group than alone, collective performance exceeds individual performance.<\/li>\n \t
  4. Members become boosters. When each member is encouraged by other team members to do his or her best, collective results improve.<\/li>\n \t
  5. Team members enjoy being on the team. The more that team members derive satisfaction from being on the team, the more committed they become.<\/li>\n \t
  6. Leadership rotates. Teams function effectively when leadership responsibility is shared over time (p. 497).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nThis section is adapted from\u00a0\u201cWhy Teamwork Works\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Professional and Technical Writing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Suzy Baker (2025, June 01), licensed under a\u00a0Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International<\/a>.\n\n<\/div>","rendered":"
    \n

    Working in teams to achieve a common objective presents unique opportunities and challenges. We first list ways we can succeed in teams and then provide challenges.<\/p>\n

    The following characteristics are seen in effective teams (Whetton & Cameron, 2007):<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Members depend on each other. When team members rely on each other to get the job done, team productivity and efficiency are high.<\/li>\n
    2. Members trust one another. Teamwork is more effective when members trust each other.<\/li>\n
    3. Members work better together than individually. When team members perform better as a group than alone, collective performance exceeds individual performance.<\/li>\n
    4. Members become boosters. When each member is encouraged by other team members to do his or her best, collective results improve.<\/li>\n
    5. Team members enjoy being on the team. The more that team members derive satisfaction from being on the team, the more committed they become.<\/li>\n
    6. Leadership rotates. Teams function effectively when leadership responsibility is shared over time (p. 497).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      This section is adapted from\u00a0\u201cWhy Teamwork Works\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Professional and Technical Writing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Suzy Baker (2025, June 01), licensed under a\u00a0Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-74","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":65,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/65"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/74\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}