It took a team of three 2.5 months to finally feel like a team. What teamwork really comes down to is looking at the goal of the team and working backwards…together.

The goal of a team is to make the team work in the end - where everyone is happy. The objective is to deliver results. Every single person wants the team to deliver results when solving a problem.

Now come the barriers in working in a team. Barriers are forces such as ego, ignorance, envy, veto, assertion, arrogance and countless other character traits that make the experience challenging.

Some teams work much better than others due to having less barriers for compliance. It’s not about liking a person. Liking a person’s personality doesn’t define whether you will reach your objective as a group.

The most important lesson I have learnt is acceptance. If you don’t accept people for who they are due to their circumstances, their environment, their mentality and their work ethics, you will end up with emotion thoughts of anger and contempt. I also learnt that you can always learn more about yourself when you are faced with situations that you despise. You learn about your strengths and weaknesses and you learn to bend. Bending is important — not to an extent of passivity but as far as accepting that plans will not always go your way, even if you believe that they should highly be considered and executed in that direction.

There are endless directions to go for solving a problem; it’s up to each team member for acknowledging that as a fact and its existence in every individual’s mentality — this can take some time. It is all valid — there is no right or wrong. Solve the problem, agree on it, and you’re a team.