Teamwork for Small Business Is Way To Success

If you have a group of people working with you – in your office or from home, employed or outsourced – does that mean you have a team? Well that depends how you work together.

Small Businesses need to be build a team, a Small Business Team. A team is defined as a group of people who co-operate in such a manner that it achieves more than the sum total of the individuals achieve each, they are united around a common goal and are accountable to the team for their actions.

Examples of teams are:

• Work Teams
• Sales Teams
• Customer Service Teams
• Virtual Teams

I would suggest that small business owners need to form teams around their small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, too. This will achieve scalability, higher efficiency, more professionalism, in other words to grow your business with less growing pains, like struggling cash-flow, excessive financial and administrative overheads and much more.

In fact keeping business failure at bay, may very well depend on your ability to form these teams, in your office or virtually.

In a modern business context we also call these teams Small Business Communities or Small Business Networks. Even a small business may have different types of networks – as indicated above – you can have your office team, while your small office team member for sales may also belong to a external sales network (team).

As you can see we live not only technologically in a networked world – we live in a world of teams, communities and people networks. The benefits especially for small business and even more business start-up, can not be over emphasized – teams perform functions so important for small business success:

• achieve better work results than individuals,
• are ultimately more scalable and flexible than larger organisations,
• offer a wider range of services and products than individuals,
• offer the opportunity of “brain-storming”,
• motivate each other,
• develop more skills and confidence
• show more commitment to each other.

Whatever you do, employ new staff, hire a consultant, work with an accountant, think my-team, think my-community and think my-network – because you are building your Small Business Team. Do it even before you open your door for business, during the business start-up phase.

So, back to my question for you: Do you work with a Group of people or do you have your own Small Business Team?

4 Responses to “ Teamwork for Small Business Is Way To Success ”

1. richard hazelgrove
   
   Said on June 1st, 2008 at 9:40 am

   Hello
   I agree entirely. The phrase no man is an Island is very true. I tried a short period of being a lone worker and it really was demoralizing.
   richard

2. Teamwork is vital in small business « FavPanel
   
   Said on June 28th, 2009 at 9:51 am

   [...] I formerly thought that teamwork was not really necessary in small business. You know, we start our business alone, as an entrepreneur. Then it should be more about my own decision, strategy, hard-work, etc. But Stefan Töpfer suggests that teamwork is really important in small-business growth. He says that people need to work in team to perform better and complement each other. If the team works well, your business will likely to be success as well. Team has many function, they develop more skill, service, and opportunity to your business. Brain-storming will also be more effective and efficient in teams. If you are still doing many of your business tasks alone, I suggest you read this article. [...]

3. John
   
   Said on September 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm

   Yes I agree, It is the manager’s responsibility to recognize when a group is not developing a healthy relationship. Departmental meetings give the manager the opportunity to examine the team’s progress.

4. Arjun Cat
   
   Said on September 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

   As per my knowledge..Every business is different – Does your business need to pay a fortune each month for a support contract that you only use on very rare occasions?

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