The Impact of Teamwork and Appreciation on Project Management

The Power of Positive Mindset

Your approach might be one of providing constructive criticism as feedback for your team. But adding constructive before criticism doesn’t make it any less harsh. Recent developments have proven that there may be better ways to recognize employees contributions, even making observations palatable. According to a study, everybody has a positive image of themselves and then with critical feedback, managers put a clear mirror in front of them. This method backfires because we take in the information we want to hear more than information we don't.

The study documents the pole results, whereby over 35% of employees attribute lack of recognition of their work to dwindle their productivity levels. The most straightforward path to recognizing employees is appreciation. The report concludes that appreciating crew can reflect enormously in their dedication and loyalty to the organization, in turn creating a type of stress that's good for you - for high-pressure projects and looming deadlines.

Many project managers don’t feel the need of inculcating appreciation into their daily project management routine. I, on the flip side, beg to differ.?Providing quality time and investing resources to spur personal development speaks volumes to employees, who for more than half of their tenure feel overlooked and invisible.

Appreciation Yields Remarkable Outcome in the Workplace

• Meting out collective appreciation for the team as a whole boosts engagement, building a culture conducive to teamwork and well-being.
• When employees know that the work they put in is appreciated and recognized, they feel that their work matters and makes a difference in the larger scheme of things. This in turn pushes them to sustain and improve their performance.
• Happiness is contagious. Frowns and mortal problems are lost amidst cheer and celebration. Similarly, kindling a bright culture of appreciation has a domino effect where other team leaders and colleagues are likely to partake in this habit of fostering appreciative feedback.
• According to a survey, 66% of employees leave their job because of a lack of appreciation. This is why the “A” word in the workplace becomes paramount to build staff loyalty.

Teamwork & Appreciation are Indeed Indispensable to the Modern PMO

Ticking solo projects off the to-do list is so gratifying that seldom we realize that teamwork is just as important as personal accomplishments at the workplace. The project managers of today give little to no importance to teamwork and team building activities. But a enormous part of creating an active culture and practicing appreciation is teamwork. A fall in teamwork leads to poor performance and productivity in the organization and the PMO cannot afford any tardy hands on deck.

Teamwork instills in the workforce a heightened sense of direction, the ability to create workable plans and solutions, and the magical experience of belonging. Under-acknowledged team building and planning sessions result in low morale, negative motivation and falling behind in meeting daily objectives. Fuelling collective action, teams equip individuals to work cooperatively and achieve a common mutual goal more rapidly than as a one-man army.

Endowing team members with a higher level of emotional security, self-confidence and the ability to plan and decide with others effectively, indeed speeds up the crafting of workable agendas. In contrast, the absence of teamwork can result in occupational failure, discontentment, low morale and poor productivity, jeopardizing the very bedrock of the organization. Employees, who undermine idea about teamwork, usually fall back in delivering the expected results and in achieving the organization goals. The output of team performance is, in effect, much larger than that of individual performance, especially when the tasks call for a wider repository of knowledge, judgment and opinion.

Espousing teamwork facilitates the PMO in gaining a competitive edge over other firms as it charges new ideas, backing them with concrete strategies and effort. The results of teamwork are highly focused, targeted and productive division of labour, which ultimately apply to all the members and also produces tangible metrics-driven results. Without teamwork, organizational progress retards, slowing down multiple functions with it. A failure in directing teamwork on the other hand can have hazardous effects on both team spirit and the finances and resources of the organization. This is where we connect the dots back to ‘appreciation’.

A growing body of literature contests that a positive and direct relationship exists between project teamwork and project success, thus project managers must mobilize the pack to escalate project completion. It is paramount for project team leaders to realize the urgency and contribution of project teamwork toward achieving transparency and streamlining complex processes. Appreciation and recognition is only a tiny orb in today’s stressful and fast-paced workplace. Employee wellness, the need to belong and job satisfaction has risen, and rightly, to the top of project management concerns. It's time we translated those concerns to reality by putting into place a rewarding mechanism for employee appreciation and teamwork, simultaneously bearing witness to a culture of organizational excellence.?