Team Work/Leadership

An essential quality of an organization and its employees is effective teamwork.  No professional organization can perform its duties or achieve its goals without effective teamwork.  Teamwork helps accomplish difficult tasks and builds social bonds.  Leadership is a quality also needed in an organization so that it will run effectively.  Leadership helps keep the organization focused on its mission and its goals.

Both teamwork and leadership skills were stressed in the Public Administration program.  Many classes required group work to accomplish complex projects.  In addition, informally teaming up helped me, along with other students, study for tests and complete assignments, where individually, it would be almost impossible.  Leadership was also an important skill learned in the Public Administration program.  Leadership skills helped me become more independent, that I can accomplish any task or project on my own, but it also helped me in improving teamwork skills because when working on a project, I know when I should take a lead role in one aspect of a project because of my talents and skills, but I also understand that I should defer to others in another aspect of a project because of their expertise.  These two qualities are important as I move into the professional world as I need both teamwork skills and leadership skills to work with people in performing tasks and accomplishing the goals of the organization.

Example of a Project in Public Administration Requiring Teamwork

The Political Frame - An Organizational Perspective