Ways to Encourage Teamwork in the Office

Ways to Encourage Teamwork in the Office. Have you ever experienced a workplace where people didn’t work very well together?

You know the type; filled with a toxic mess of egos, glory hunters and backstabbers.

But good teamwork doesn’t happen by accident. As a manager, it’s down to you to foster the team spirit that will take your company to the next level. So, how do you encourage teamwork in the office, without resorting to those outdated trust exercises where we all close our eyes and fall into each other’s arms?

Here are 4 ways you can encourage teamwork in your teams.

1. Give everyone clear roles.

Confusion breeds chaos.

When you don’t give people clear responsibilities then there is a real risk that someone will try to seize power.

That can turn your team against each other.

So, make sure that everybody knows what they have to do in the workplace.

When you start a new project, give everybody involved a very clear job description and create a chain of command.

Play to their strengths, but also make sure you mix it up. Give junior members a chance to take ownership of a project and they might really surprise you!

2. Keep to clear, simple objectives.

A team can pull together, burn the midnight oil and overcome all kinds of obstacles, but only if they have clear and transparent goals and targets to hit.

Vagueness can cause issues as members will attempt to guess what they should be doing.

Doubt leads to insecurity and that can be the death of team spirit.

You need short-term and long-term goals, supported by Key Performance Indicators, for every part of your working life.

Hitting targets gives your team and the individual members, confidence that snowballs.

So, keep the targets realistic and build on your progress

3. Give your team an active role in big decisions.

The buck stops with you and you have to make the final call.

But a team will be more invested if they had a say in the basic decisions and

Plus, a 2014 study proved that team members will be less committed if they don’t think their ideas have been listened to… So the answer is obvious.


Let your team get involved! Let them talk, listen to their ideas and incorporate the best concepts into each and every project.