Here is why businesses are not looking for teamwork anymore.

I am an 80s born and I have always grown up to the fact that teamwork pays. It was integrated into our syllabi and we were coached in B-School about the significance of working together.

Now, team player and similar words do not catch recruiters attentions and corporates do not give you any brownie points for boosting your teamwork skills. In fact, the entire concept of working as a team is soon becoming obsolete.

"What corporates need today is "collaboration". This may seem similar to teamwork but it is not.

In teamwork, individuals work together towards a single goal but everyone plays a different role in accomplishing the bigger objectives. They may have their set of opinions and differences but overall as along as all domains perform their respective parts, everything works fine. There is a team leader who controls the team to deliver the respective assignment. She tries to resolve issues and keep everyone on the same platform. If the desired outcome is not achieved the team leader takes the responsibility.

In collaboration, however, everyone is committed to working towards one mutual goal which can also be mutually competing as well. There is virtually no team leader to assign work or arbitrate differences. The members are expected to engage emotionally, respect other person's opinions, and perform coordinated actions. There is no scope to walk away in any situation and personal and professional differences are expected to be resolved. Members are expected to support each other outside their individual periphery and contribute to a collective success.

In nutshell, both are the concepts of working together but teamwork is more about monitoring and controlling the guided individual efforts whereas collaboration involves working together in creative and flexible manner.

Companies today are more dynamic than ever before and changes are so fast that work conditions change overnight and hence the employees or internal stakeholders are expected to work together to achieve the set goals by not only doing that is listed in their domain but also extending an open culture of flexibility and out of box thinking that help to overcome modern day challenges.

I am an 80s born and I have always grown up to the fact that teamwork pays. It was integrated into our syllabi and we were coached in B-School about the significance of working together.

Now, team player and similar words do not catch recruiters attentions and corporates do not give you any brownie points for boosting your teamwork skills. In fact, the entire concept of working as a team is soon becoming obsolete.

"What corporates need today is "collaboration". This may seem similar to teamwork but it is not"

In teamwork, individuals work together towards a single goal but everyone plays a different role in accomplishing the bigger objectives. They may have their set of opinions and differences but overall as along as all domains perform their respective parts, everything works fine. There is a team leader who controls the team to deliver the respective assignment. She tries to resolve issues and keep everyone on the same platform. If the desired outcome is not achieved the team leader takes the responsibility.

In collaboration, however, everyone is committed to working towards one mutual goal which can also be mutually competing as well. There is virtually no team leader to assign work or arbitrate differences. The members are expected to engage emotionally, respect other person's opinions, and perform coordinated actions. There is no scope to walk away in any situation and personal and professional differences are expected to be resolved. Members are expected to support each other outside their individual periphery and contribute to a collective success.

In nutshell, both are the concepts of working together but teamwork is more about monitoring and controlling the guided individual efforts whereas collaboration involves working together in creative and flexible manner.

Companies today are more dynamic than ever before and changes are so fast that work conditions change overnight and hence the employees or internal stakeholders are expected to work together to achieve the set goals by not only doing that is listed in their domain but also extending an open culture of flexibility and out of box thinking that help to overcome modern day challenges.