What Are The Advantages Of Working In A Team Essay

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In many aspects of my life it has often been required to work as part of a team. Whether it be work, school, or another type of team it is important to be a team player. Sometimes I don’t mind working on a team, but most of the time I prefer to do projects and things like that on my own. I like to take responsibility for my own work and do things my own way. But working as a team has its advantages too. Depending on the situation, a team of people can come up with more ideas when brainstorming and there are more people involved to delegate assignment and tasks to and also more people to be responsible for the outcome, positive or negative. I remember a time in school when we had to do a project with a team of classmates. We were supposed to come up with an idea for a business and set up everything about the business such as the name, type of business, how it would be managed and so on. I guess because we got an A in the end the project was a success. There were four students in the group and we were able to get many different ideas about what type of business we should have and what the names would be. Each person was able to…show more content…
This was just a project for a class in college so there was no harm done. I could imagine that if this were real life and we had to design a business we were all investing in the outcome might have been drastically different. The individuals would have probably cared more and made a better effort to have things done their way. Working as part of a team is a fact of life and will be required from time to time. I think the best thing to do is speak up and be involved with what is happening but listen to the other members of the team as well. Remember that without a team, you might have missed out on some great ideas you may not have come up with yourself. Also realize you can’t control everything because it is a group effort, not an individual one. After all, there is no I in

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