How to Build Teamwork and Minimize Conflict

How to build teamwork and cooperation.

Teamwork and co-operation are essential in an organization which aims to be effective and efficient, and not likely to be divided by conflicting factions. The best teamwork usually comes from having a shared vision or goal, so that leaders and members are all committed to the same objectives and understand their roles in achieving those objectives. Important behaviors in achieving teamwork and minimizing potential conflict include a commitment by team members to:

• share information by keeping people in the group up-to-date with current issues
• express positive expectations about each other
• empower each other - publicly crediting colleagues who have performed well and encouraging each other to achieve results
• team-build - by promoting good morale and protecting the group's reputation with outsiders
• resolve potential conflict - by bringing differences of opinion into the open and facilitating resolution of conflicts