Individual work..

Well, there are instances wherein individualism is better than working with a team. But also, the opposite is true at times. Working alone and working with a team has their pros and cons. It will really depend on the situation and environment and who you will be working with. Working alone removes biases, diversified opinions and emotional breakdowns of having to ply with a team. Also, it gives you better control and management yourself on the goal at hand. But working with a team brings camaraderie and lightens the workload for the people. Also, there is a lot more to pick up and learn from working with a team as you get to observe how your teammates do the job. Really, it depends. One must know when to work alone and when to assess working with a team instead.

Sometimes we do need a team to make a project work more effectively. But back when I was in college, I preferred to work alone. I remember a team project that I had to work on by myself because I was teamed up with unreliable people. Even the team leader wasn't doing anything to speed up what needs to be done. The due date for project submission was only a week away and yet we still didn't have anything. The other team mates reasoned out that they were busy with other stuffs. Well, they seemed to have forgotten that I may be busy living my life too! I didn't want to be dragged down along with them with a very bad grade from our professor, a person who expected nothing less. So, I thought of only one thing that I could do. Like you, I did everything from the scratch.Had to go sleepless for a few days just to finish everything and have it ready before the due date. Though some of my team mates didn't give me their share for the expenses, I just focused on the fact that my efforts were not wasted. The project earned a very high grade :)

I am one who generally prefers to work on my own. That is true even if the people who would be my teammates are my friends. I just prefer being off doing the stuff on my own rather than having to depend on others. javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphMainContent$lbStart','')

I enjoy working as a team member and in a team effort. I think it's great to be able to rely on your team members to get a project completed, but you are right. Sometimes, some team members don't pull their weight and let the other team member do all the work. Oh..it might seem like they are working, but in reality they are not. Many hands make light work, and it's wrong for team members to take advantage of the one team member and expect them to do all the work. When I was in school, I also enjoyed group activities especially when I really didn't understand the assignment, so it was great to have other views and opinions on what the outcome was suppose to produce. There were also times, I wanted to do my own work individually because some students just didn't want to do the activity. They would have rather waited until the last minute before the assignment was due. There are pros and cons to both scenarios and honestly for me it would depend on what the task was as to whether I wanted help with it or not. Case in point, tonight I was going to have my daughter put the dishes away in the dishwasher. Well, Mom got to it first, and said she would rather do it herself because she doesn't like the way my daughter puts them away. My Mom did not want to work as a team and wanted to do it herself.

We all are gifted with unique skills and talents and we will express is when we get an opportunity. I like individual effort and have self confidence about my work. Our efforts, determination and positive attitude will help us to achieve a lot in our life. Most of us will find out our real power while working individually. Team work is also good, but all the team mates must have good understanding and work hard to get success, if some of the team mates are not interested in work as well as have different ideas about the work, it is really hard to get success with the team. Both individual work and team effort is having pros and cons. But working individually will motivate us a lot and encourage us to give our full efforts in our work to show our real talent. In my college days i did both team work and individual projects. I like my own projects a lot than the team work, because while working in the team we are in need to explain our work with others as well as get approval from all the team mates, if some of our team mates don't like our idea, then we don't have the ability to process it. Different kind of people is having different opinion and think the same thing in the different way. If all our team mates are good and approved our idea, then there is no problem in team work, otherwise our ability and creativity is in vain. While working alone, we are not in need to get approval from others and we will give our uttermost in our work to show our real skills. No one can question us about our work and our real talent will be expressed very well in our own work. We can do our work as per our with without any interference and get success with our own ideas and creativity. Our individual work is the real symbol of our own skills and talents and it will give a great pride to us among others. We must be confident about our work and have positive attitudes to get success in our project which tells our own name with a great individual effort.

I had also faced a similar problem once but i approached it differently the things is i work best alone however management decided to put me in charge of a team and from inception it went down hill but what i realized is that as a leader it means lead by example i had to learn to work with people and the had to learn to work together so i laced up my boots tight and layed down d law those who remained got a good performance evaluation and those who couldn't cut it well u can guess it so i hope u get the point

Only believe in what you can do.. then trust what others can do. Sounds to me like you are a great and responsible person there. Take care. Happy holidays.....

Well, if a team or group is not well-organized, I would say that the team members lack the sense of team spirit. In some cases, people just want to get without any labor or paid. I really hate that kind of people. Why is so common people in the view of team work? Probably we should notice that people can discuss about the team task and get motivation under each other's help and supervision.

I agree with you that the concept of individual work and efforts is important for success.