Doing things solo is never fun. The opportunity to collaborate is always exciting, and the results are even sweeter when you pull it off!
I remember learning and gaining loads of knowledge and experience when I collaborated both at work and university. My role model when it comes to team work have to be Manchester United Football Club because their achievements have been based on working for and with each other. In good times or bad, the solidarity amongst the players and fans is unbelievable.
Even when teamwork doesn’t quite click, there is a lot to learn from it. My last 2 posts have been on breakdown on communication between teams at work. Now although I may not be able to make them change, I can surely help them realize the impact of their actions. Actually, them screwing up has worked out to be a favourable situation for me.
Tomorrow, a colleague of mine who has been with us for 7 months will present our software for the first time to clients. It’s the first client in her portfolio, and there has been quite an effort in getting prepared. As nervous and anxious as we have been in preparing for the presentations (because of time lost last week), the level of understanding, co-operation, and camaraderie has been as good as it can get. I feel proud to work with certain people who realise the value of their job, and the exciting opportunities that come with it; I hope my noobies do awesomely well in the client presentations this week!
Working in a dynamic team is all about working for each other, and making sure that if your actions affect someone else, then ensuring that those actions are positive and nothing else.
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I totally agree! There is a lot that can be learned when people put their petty Corporate BS aside and come together for the greater good.
At my Former Company, there wasn’t a lot of that – there was mostly people running over others w/ the proverbial bus, pointing fingers, and all of the like in an effort to make themselves look better. It was so mentally exhausting to work in an environment like that!
In my own little peer group though, there wasn’t any of that. If someone was having a tough time figuring something out, we came together and offered some pointers or a fresh look at it. I think it also helped that we all came from different backgrounds too – and so we all looked at the problems very differently.
There’s definitely a sense of pride when someone you helped succeeds – whether it is a project, presentation, or throughout their career.
I think if the other people at Former Company figured that out, it wouldn’t have been such a toxic environment.
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