Teamwork
"I am a helpful and contributing group and team member, and feel responsible for helping the team reach its goals."
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What is Teamwork?
Teamwork means that in team situations you are committed to contributing to the team’s success. The team could be a work group or a sports team, but it could also refer to your family, marriage, or even a group of friends working on a project together. Teamwork extends to being a good citizen of your community or country, and more broadly to a sense of social responsibility for particular groups of people or even all of humanity. In other words, the person high in teamwork applies a certain way of acting in whatever context they consider themselves committed to the good of the group as a whole. Most commonly, however, this strength refers to your being a dedicated, reliable, and contributing member to your small group or team. Teamwork is closely related to 3 other concepts:
Citizenship: responsibility toward one's community
Loyalty: unwavering trust for a group
Patriotism: loyalty toward one's homeland/nation without hostility toward other nations
Which Virtue Is This Strength?
Teamwork is a strength within the virtue category of justice, one of six virtues that subcategorize the 24 strengths. Justice describes strengths that help you connect in community or group-based situations. The other strengths in Justice are fairness, leadership, and teamwork.
Justice
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Research findings indicate those high in teamwork elicit and experience a higher level of social trust and have a more positive view of others. Learn how to activate this strength and all of your other strengths with your personalized Total 24 Report.
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