Working In Teams Improves Performance

When the bottom line is performance, teams are the means to effective use of multiple skills, abilities, and experience. The result is expanded knowledge, shared accountability, and workplace success.

Team-based organizations are 30 to 50 percent more effective and efficient than traditional organizations. Teams outperform individuals acting in an autocratic or hierarchical environment, as illustrated, showing a celebrated evaluation of teamwork conducted by Motorola. After workers received training to work in teams and examined work processes, significant improvements resulted.

EMA’s proven method of transforming organizations–from a hierarchical-based environment to one that uses teams as a foundation for improved business operations–employs an interactive procedure for shared learning.