When we talk about teamwork, we generally talk about the work we do individually that drives the objectives and goals of the entire team. We are not putting personal interests first, but the interests of the entire team.
This is one of the many characteristics of teamwork. In a company where employees work for a salary and have to do repetitive work or a specific job to reach a goal, this is easily applicable, but when within a team, individual goals and objectives are set with the possibility of achieving them effectively through strong work with colleagues, this becomes much more challenging.
Now I'm thinking about the type of work I do as a real estate agent. Although I am an independent worker in my field, I work under a firm, a brand, a franchise, therefore two. I have rules to follow, policies, and guidelines to which I must adjust to carry out a work model that allows us to have results, a model that has been active in the market for more than 50 years, positioning the brand as number one in the world for more than a decade.
Now the question is: if my achievements depend on my work, that is to say: if I work and work well, I get results; if I don't work or don't do the job well, unfortunately I don't get the expected results, this means that everything depends on me. But in teamwork this same situation involves my team, that is to say: if I do my job well, it benefits me and expands my possibilities with teamwork. Can I explain a little more?
In this real estate business, in this company in which I am a partner: if I do my job very well of acquiring the property, it means that I will be able to sell it easily, in some way I ensure a part of the sales commission, if in this case I am the one who sells the property, I also have the percentage of sale from the seller. This means that if I do my part well of acquiring a property at a good price and in the best conditions, any teammate who sells that property gets their part of the commission. Some are good at acquiring properties and others are good at selling, many others are good at both.
And this work model allows us to make teamwork key because if I do my job of attracting clients well, the entire team, the entire Network, whether national or international, benefits from my work. If I always do my job well, more and more members of the Network will want to work with me, more colleagues will have a client waiting for my attracted properties, my sales possibilities multiply exponentially if I only do one part of the entire job in the best way.
I explain all this to put you in context of the reason why I am reflecting on teamwork, all of this implies many other aspects, such as relationships, empathy, connection, accompaniment, training and many other aspects. Generally in our work team we encourage each other since we do it under the premise that if my partner improves, that benefits me, helping my partner benefits me directly and indirectly. If I train my colleagues about my products they have more tools to be able to sell, when they sell they have greater motivation and all of that benefits me and benefits them too, we can all achieve our personal goals and our goal as a team.
This makes us work to develop ourselves humanly in the best possible way, we are encouraged to have a job with ethics and many other values that represent us so that many other colleagues and clients choose us when looking for someone trustworthy and who does their job well.
All this leads me to think that teamwork is not simply aligning ourselves with the team's objectives. Based on my work experience, teamwork goes much further and at the end of the day it becomes a style, a life experience. We bring teamwork to the table, the possibility that everyone benefits under the premise of "win-win", thus allowing anyone who wants to do business with people on our team to do so in complete confidence and security.
What do you think, what experience do you have about teamwork? I would like to read your comments
