I think team work is a group of people maybe or it could just be you and another person but it is pulling together. Bringing there facts together and putting there best into it to get what ever they are trying to achieve . Putting there minds together for a better and bright idea.
I think you can improve team work by giving it your all and not just letting one person do it . Don’t always think a person in your group is trying to take over, or have a problem with someone that’s trying to help you out in the long run.
I believe in team work it brings people together and the job is getting done in a timely manner . Sometimes one person cant always think of everything so that’s were team work come in. Always give it your best in team work or without it . Always try to be ahead.
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The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Teamwork
- A colleague ignored my recommendation but immediately followed the same suggestion when it came from my boss. After a pattern of being ignored and my credentials questioned by that particular team, I was very disheartened and wanted to escape my job. Not being taken seriously is not something I know how to cope with. Especially since I take my work very seriously.
- Be part of a team of a friends personal initiative at a social/community issue. And the frustrating part, as it often is, was having to be the only one to be asking questions at clarifying the purposed, vision, mission, the desired outcomes in a way that can be measured and communicated to the team, stakeholders and larger audience in order to be able to have a grand strategy in place before you get started. For me, this is where the seed and the harvest is and this is where more time, effort and reflection should go. You should be able to conceptually and intuitively see the end from the beginning both as individuals and as a team. You need to have a good picture of the purpose of and picture of the building and how you will go about bringing it to reality before you start laying the breaks or even working on the technical drawings. Unfortunately, its rare that I find people who find themselves in this situation in most of the team settings that I find myself in.
- Coordinate a project that is 10% of a grade that could take about 2 hours to do but instead will take 6-8 hours, because there are 6 people in the team having 6 schedules, and we all want to do excellent work, but it will take much more time than necessary
- Dealing with a promotion at work. I am supervising a few people now whereas I was simply part of a team before. the frustration comes in from the inheritence of one “problem” employee whom has worked at my plant for 6 years, seen numerous conflict situations with various people, and been counselled repeatedly without real change.
- Dealing with incompetent co-workers – I don’t have the power to fire this person, but I find it hard to see my team and our strategy failing because of one person. It was frustrating because I wanted my manager to see the issues and draw her own conclusions, but not outwardly suggest that I believed we should just let this person go.
- During my previous internships, I was in a team of experienced analysts. I was given a task which needed contribution from all my team members. They did not prioritize my task as they had rough problems to solve. This was a challenge for me to learn how to get things done when you have a team which is not ready to contribute. After a week I emailed my concerns and everybody responded and helped me finish my tasks.
- Explaining to a teammate why they need to be responsible for their schedule and that it ultimately is their job to know their schedule. She never said that she and I had a miscommunication and if we did then she was sorry. This frustrated me because she went on to point out that this could have been easily avoid had I made sure she had gotten a schedule and followed up with her on the scheduling request.
- I am a nurse and this week I had to do a night shift in which I was in charge of 27 patients. I was alone during the shift. There is a team of nurses that can be called in case of need for help. I agreed with one of them that she would come at four unless I needed her earlier. Eventually she came at 4:45 by that time I had done most of the work by myself. Later on I was told I should have waited, but how can you wait when someone asks you for help? I asked some patients (when not urgent) to wait until 4. Also had an emergency, a confused patient and administrative work (which for me was not priority – just paper work- but that is a another long discussion). In retrospective I should have simply called for help, but somehow it felt that if I could managed by myself it should try. I also trusted the other girl to be at 4 in my unit, she wasn’t, but then again she probably had a lot of work. However I wasn’t able to empathise with her (something I can do very well with my clients) nor with my other colleagues who had left the unit looking like a battle field and with many unfinished tasks that increased considerably my own work load (again, I am sure they had a tough afternoon themselves). I guess that what really frustrates me is the fact that I was not able to control my feelings of anger, frustration, self-righteously (this one is the worse), which prevented me to find a (so simple) solution and probably hurt other people’s feelings (my boss told me off for not having done certain things and I justified myself by half throwing them under the bus – not nice at all. I feel so bad about it that I don’t even want to go back to work and face these people). I really really hate not being nice with others and realise that stress is not for me, because currently it gets the worse out of me. I hate working during the night. I dislike Having a boss who instead of building tries to destroy (although I am learning to resist her strikes). I do not appreciate useless paper work (red tape). Also starting to have the feeling that probably authority is an issue for me. Unless I admire the person/s, and for me to admire someone that someone has to implement their authority more in the form of guidance, teaching and setting an example. I prefer working in environments when your opinion and creativity is worth something, even if it is a discussion of it being wrong (and it would be a long one, because I tend to have very strong opinions). Also enjoy working in a place where criticism is positive. I like when innovation comes before old ways and short term patching. However I understand that all starts with me…
- I couldn’t take a break at work today because I was working with two new employees who couldn’t handle the customer volume. I was frustrated because I always “take one for the team.” I hate that my boss puts me in this positon and I resent myself for sacrificing all 50 minutes of breaks that I am entitled to.
- I few weeks ago all teams at work had finished their projects – so it was time to brainstorm and make up new ideas for upcoming projects – and of course building new teams. Instantly people have gotten together without having an project idea or a really bad one. I instead took much time thinking of the best possible project. As soon as I was done everybody already had a team and an idea of the next project – eventhough the team set up was horrible and the ideas were worse. I had an amazing idea, perfectly crafted for the next project, but everyone was too scared to leave their team and idea (probably too scared that the others will be offended). In this case the social need for people was so desperate that it stopped a great project from happening.
- I had never in my career had to do budget for a department ever, so when I was informed that I had to do one I was frustrated because I didn’t have an idea where I was to start from. I was also expected to be part of a team to sit in on heads of unit presenting their budgets for staff, which was also a first for me. It was frustrating because it was something I hadn’t been prepared for and probably because I had never headed a unit/department before and did not have training or skills for it.
- I have just moved to a new team at work and I am not receiving the training I need to do my job to the best of my abilty. I am finding myself using the knowledge I already posess from my previous role to adapt to my new role. I am frustrated because I am not confident that the actions I am taking in my new role are the correct ones.
- I’m working on a group project for a capstone course and one of my teammates went ahead and wrote double the required paper length. I don’t mind that he did it, but he wrote it all at about a grade 6 level, meaning I had to spend the next week re-writing and shortening the paper. In the end, it probably took about twice the work it would have for me to write the paper on my own.
- I’ve had to work with a completely new crew within my ministry because the team that I usually bring was unable to go. This is a team of inexperienced individuals for the ministry task that needed to be accomplished, who did not know what to do and I did not have enough time to train. so the job was done in a mediocre way, which ultimately is a representation of me.
- One of my colleague was actually trying to avoid her task and push away the responsibility. I dislike this kind of attitude as I believed that to work in a team, team members must not be too calculative. However, my anger disappear in short while as it is not worth for me to angry against people’s mistake.
- That I cannot change the current make up of the members of my team. That I cannot implement changes that I know would lead to a better running team and would benefit the clients. I feel that the manager of this team does not know all that is required to do a good job and to meet all of our goals.
- The most frustrating thing I had to do this past week was to take a day off work to fix a tecnical problem in my home. It took hours to fix and I lost a whole day of work because of it. It frustrated me because I knew my team had to go deal with all the calls at work and I wasn’t there to help out.
- The most frustrating thing it was when I had to do a team project for the Univeristy and the teacher forced us to build groups of minimum four students. I wanted to start working at the project instaltly because I like to take things easily, to analyse, to collect the information I needed just for have a final result which can be matched with the attendances I fixed from the beggining. Instead of that, my colleagues weren’t in the mood to study and to go to the library,so they postponed the term and the project was done too late. I was not proud of what was done. I felt it could be done ten times better.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do is give feedback on a design proof from our PR department. Our graphic designers are incredibly difficult people to work with, often don’t do what we originally ask, and constantly give us sub-par work. As a graphic designer myself, it is incredibly frustrating to have to “tread lightly” and be sympathetic to their workload or pressure when they consistently treat others coldly and do not work well on a team. I have to sell the incredible mission of the university I love with mediocre marketing materials.
- The most frustrating thing that I have had to do in the past few days was work on a group project in one of my classes and nobody was doing what they were supposed to be doing, and I ended up doing most of the work. My group members were goofing off while I did the work; it frustrated me very much. The reason for a group project is to work together as a team, not just one person doing all the work.
- There was a competition yesterday and with my team, we have greatly procrastinated. One of the objectives were to throw a ball into the bucket and I completely diobeyed the rules. I was frustrated and blamed myself if I was the result of us losing the competition. I worked hard the past few days and if that didnt come together in the end , I felt it was just me to blame.
- This week I was handed an “updated” list of items to find a supplier for that was re-worked for the third time, and not has eight times the number of products in a different priority. After spending three days pulling the notes from the previous list, and running cross reference reports to populate the updated data for the new items, I approached my boss about a game plan to move forward. He interrupted me three words into my sentence, changed the subject three times while talking then made an comment about needing to work on something that makes money and walked out of the room. This was for a new product line that launches in a month and will be visible to our corporate parent company. He has made commitments for products that he has not worked on with me or our suppliers to our internal team. He is “always busy” and never has time to review this project. There is little respect shown for the work and time I am doing, support and encouragement for ideas on how to secure product. He expresses frequently that this isn’t worth his time and treats me as a admin verses the manager that is my role.
- Wasted time listening to a teammate complain about a situation that was clearly a one time problem and didn’t need to be discussed. This was frustrating because: Unnecessary time and effort wasted; don’t think we need to mention every mistake or problem if it’s clearly not ongoing–just brings people and the situation down–if personal, talk with the person directly; think people need to chill out and focus on what really matters, how can we solve the “real/source” problem not the secondary stuff; people should think through things more before they speak… is this really beneficial to the group and to moving forward; or is it something that could be said at a more appropriate time/situation
- When I came to Trivandrum I take a new mobile connection in idea. After taking this connection my problems start they activate my connection after a 20 days battle to customer care and local company people. I found everyone is irresponsible and no bother customer’s inconvenience. After activating I get some relief. That was not end problems start after few days everyone gave me their own opinion and lie with me in every call I made more than 50-60 calls to customer care and did not get any solution after 20 days they generate my bill that was horrible for me I activate 399 plan and they generate my Rs. 2001 bill, I again make some calls and send email to customer support team every time my complain close without any solution. Now thay make my bill Rs. 3500 and barred my outgoing I decide to close that connection and take a new in another trusted company so I can concentrate on work rather than battle with people. that was very frustrating time for me for a month.
- While overseeing a project, one of my co-workers failed to complete her task and it caused other team members to work late to ensure the project was completed on time. This was frustrating because we are all professionals who should be responsible for completing your assigned tasks. I expect all professionals to have a certain level of integrity.