No one can be succeed alone and you cannot be a great leader without great people to lead

These words sum up Living Tours' approach to innovation: you are only as good as your team. And for teamwork to flourish, people need to feel valued and listened to.

Not only hat, they want also to have fun.  A sense of fun is hugely underrated in business. But the fact is that we are much more involved and we work much better together when we are having fun.

Do you want work as a team to make the dream work? Here are five golden rules for getting the maximum of your work together, with collaborations and partnerships:

1. Cultivate new views

It´s easy to leaders to develop a tunnel vision when leading a team. Ignoring ideas is a common mistake, although we are aware that organizations are more innovative when employees play an active role in decision making.

Teamwork means encouraging people to share their views and opinions; even "negative" things that can be hard to say. Instead of micro-managing, managers, leaders, bosses should listen carefully and hand over the reins whenever possible.

Often, this process involves understanding the value of other people's perspectives as well.

2. Give voice to the issues that matter

Since work overlaps with our personal lives, it makes sense to work as a team on the issues that matter most to you as a group.

To enjoy that sense of belonging that makes a good job a great one, however, you need to come together around a purpose or key cause that everyone on the team is passionate about.

For teamwork to be authentic to its members, it must be rooted in inclusion and belief. Questions that go to the heart of what's important to people in any business give voice and meaning to that team.

3. Hero - the specialties of your team members

Everyone has different skills – and the job as a manager, leader, boss is to put them in the spotlight. For a team to work together and happy, each person needs to have a sense of self-worth and self-respect. Research shows that if employees are able to truly show who they are within a team, they will be much happier and more productive as a result.

As a team, it's good to get inside yourself, with a real sense of what each person does and what they have to offer.

4. Build a community sense solid as a rock

In the end, a great team is about learning from other people. The degrees will only take you to a certain level: you also need to be open-minded and play well with others.

So community is the key: if you don't have a cohesive support network around you, you're unlikely to succeed in a common goal. This includes listening to and being an active ally of anyone facing discrimination, as well as bringing as many different voices to the table as possible.

It's also about opening the door to the next generation of talent. Newcomers bring life and vitality to the workplace community and with the right support and freedoms they challenged us to be the best team possible.

5. Have a oto f fun along the way

Fun often hits the bottom of the pile when it comes to business priorities: buried below the most critical values like profit, productivity and KPIs.

But while all these goals are really important, they are much harder to achieve if your team isn't feeling it. Don't enjoy an afterthought - put it in the center of the stage and the results will soon speak for themselves.

Studies show that people who perceive support from the manager, the leader, the boss for fun will be more likely to feel comfortable with disrupting status—which, in turn, will enhance the customer experience.

Also, when it comes to that, work and play are the same thing. If you can learn to have fun at work and connect with the people around you, it's amazing how far your team will go.

Try it and see - that tableside dance is dying to happen.