How to Improve Teamwork Effectiveness

Improving teamwork effectiveness can be achieved by doing the following.  First, each group member must know their roles, responsibilities, and the overall purpose of the task. According to Kevin Eikenberry in his online article, Nurturing Effective Teamwork, he says that once a team leader has established these three things, the group needs to remember them.  Then with the purpose in mind the group can more easily and effectively accomplish the task.[1]

Second, building trust within the members of the group.  In the blog The Executive Search Blog, Christian Pielow posts some thoughts about trust building.  He says, “Until everyone is willing to trust the other members of the team, progress towards team success will be limited.” It is the responsibility of the group leader to help the group build trust.  Once the group begins to develop trust, the group members will be more willing to share thoughts and ideas with each other thus helping teamwork become more effective.[2]

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[1] Kevin Eikenberry, Nurturing Effective Teamwork, http://www.sideroad.com/Team_Building/effective-teamwork.html

[2] Christian Pielow, The Executive Search Blog, https://www.bluesteps.com/blog/5-key-factors-to-building-and-managing-successful-teams.aspx

What can professional blogs do for Businesses?

            A professional blog can help a business grow and become more successful by posting important updates and news of the business, and showing expertise.  Like the Biz Beat Blog from dallasnews.com, http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/tag/dr-pepper-snapple-group/, Karen Robinson-Jacobs posts regularly about news and other important information of Dr Pepper Snapple Group.  A blog provides a way for a business to show expertise rather than using traditional marketing strategies to attract new customers. 

Benefits of Business Blogging

Blogs can help a business grow and become more successful in the following two ways: informing the public and showing expertise.  Blogs provide an excellent way for businesses to inform the public of important updates concerning their companies.  A well-constructed blog will show expertise rather than a company trying to explain why it has expertise.

Blogs become a source of new information regarding a specific business.  They help consumers learn more about the business and alert them of updates within the business.  Like the Biz Beat Blog from dallasnews.com, http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/tag/dr-pepper-snapple-group/, Karen Robinson-Jacobs posts regularly about the news and other important information of Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS).  This information will allow investors, consumers, and the general public to know of DPS’s new products, investments, and future plans.

With a blog, a company can show its expertise instead of using normal marketing strategies to tell consumers it’s an expert.  Blogs display a company’s ideas and advice and allow the consumers who read the blog to develop their own opinions about the company’s ideas.  This is a much better approach when compared with spending large amounts of time and resources to try and force an idea upon consumers.

In the last few years, blogs have become an essential part for an effective business.  Blogs allow businesses to inform and update consumers, and show expertise.  It is clear that a well-constructed blog can and will make a business grow faster and become more successful.