In some project teams, lack of synergy can cause problems such as wrong project output and incompetent project result. This occurs when there are gaps between the ideas applied by team members in the tasks assigned to them that do not correspond and agree with other member's tasks that may have relation to their own task. In lack of synergy, the main objectives and goals of a team usually ends distorted due to inability to communicate ideas, thus preventing a team to decide and set one main goal.
Synergy itself is basically teamwork. If teamwork needs the cooperation and support from every team member to become effective, the same goes for synergy. Every member must provide enough support in bringing in his contribution for the team's goal. By doing so, gaps and assumptions between the objectives of tasks performed by every team member can be prevented. Moreover, with synergy, the possibility that undiscovered idea and information can be discovered.
Synergy presents...
Kevin Eikenberry suggests the following on lack of synergy in a team.
Without the willingness to share, a team is just a collection of individuals.
This thing that Eikenberry indicates is a fact. A team is not a team if every member works by himself. To be able to be considered a team, every member must feel that he is valuable in the group. This can happen if they are able to provide their contribution to the team, as well as if their contributions are recognized and became factors in the team's project results and output.
Bibliography
Bradford, a. Effective Teamwork.
Retrieved on May 5, 2005, from the Internet.
Web site: http://www.wit.edu/Academics/HSSM/context/vol3/bradford.html
Eikenberry, K. Nurturing Effective Teamwork.
Retrieved on May 5, 2005, from the Internet.
Web site: http://www.sideroad.com/Team_Building/effective-teamwork.html
