Importance Of Efficiency In Teamwork

Efficiency in teamwork is complex and does not always come with ease, a lot of work and group problem solving is essential to any good team. Many people think tasks are quite simple from the exterior but when looking closely at a task it is apparent that there are many details that go into the success of a surgery, flying a plane, designing a building, etc. Nobody can do it alone, together, it takes time and effort to make quick decisions and communicate to get the job done correctly. It is hard, and does not always work out. When constructing a building, there is a large process that involves calculations, designs, adjustments to clients needs, planning, and then building to code and hoping the whole thing doesn't come crashing down. To create

If each member is aware of each other's strengths and weaknesses they will be able to rapidly adjust and decide how to move forward. Superspecialization plays a large role in making sure someone knows the exact things they should be doing and can do it exceptionally well in a quick enough manner with room for improvisation. Nowadays, most professionals have very specific tasks they are in charge of and duties they are responsible for. Specifically, in surgery, there are many specific jobs that require specialists, they know the most about the task and have studied that specific area of the body. Sometimes, however, they don't even get it right every time, “there are degrees of complexity though, and medicine and other fields like it have grown so far beyond the usual kind that avoiding daily mistakes is proving impossible even for our most specialized” (Gawande 30). Many things still go wrong, mainly due to negligence and treating tasks as if they are more simple than they are. When working as a team, checklists can be a helpful aid in protecting against forgetting important details, “they remind us of the minimum necessary steps and make them explicit” (Gawande 36). In hospitals, nurses are put in charge of making sure everything is going according to plan on the most basic necessary level and they work to continually check up on the patient.

Lyons writes, “when people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose… with a resulting improvement in mental health” (Junger 49). Those who work and feel a sense of purpose are more likely to succeed. They not only will have better mental health but this will impact their work ethic and increase their incentive to help others. If an an entire team feels they have purpose in an operation, they will have strong determination and be able to work well with one another and be able to communicate. In Tribe, Junger explains it is human nature that “humans are so strongly wired to help one another and enjoy such enormous social benefits from doing so” (55). Humans have always had the urge to help others and this leads to people automatically working together to help others for their well being, especially during extreme times of need. Crisis tends to be a bonding experience and it brings people together in the most peculiar way to work on a common goal. “Crisis had an immediate status-leveling effect on the nascent community of survivors it had created. A sense of brotherhood… lower and upper class, collaborated in the collective efforts to obtain immediate necessities and survive” (Junger 54). When a team works together during a crisis, hierarchy seems to completely disappear and all that matters is that the team collectively works to accomplish their goal. Strangely, this teamwork creates closeness. A