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Collaboration
Working together to meet complex challenges.
Team
A unit of two or more people who share a mission and the responsibility for working to achieve their goal.
Virtual Team
A team where members work in different locations and interact through one or more electronic channels.
Participative Management
Advantages and disadvantages of Teamwork
Advantages:
1. Increasing information and knowledge
2. Increased diversity of views
3. Increased acceptance of a solution
4. Higher performance levels
Disadvantages:
1. Groupthink
2. Hidden Agendas
3. Cost
Groupthink
Occurs when peer pressures cause individual team members to withhold contrary or unpopular opinions and to go along with the decisions they don't really believe in.
Hidden Agenda
Private counterproductive motives, such as a desire to take control of the group, to undermine some else on the team, or to pursue an incompatible goal.
Traits of an effective team
Include:
-clear objective
-shared sense of purpose
-full engagement from all team members
-procedures for reaching decisions by consensus
-right mix of creative and technical talents for the tasks at hand
Two common reasons for lack of teamwork
1. Lack of trust
2. poor communication
Guidelines for effective collaboration
1. Select collaborators carefully
2. Agree on project goals before you start
3. Give your team time to bond before diving in
4. Clarify individual responsibilities
5. Establish clear processes
6. Avoid writing as a group
7. Make sure tools are ready and compatible across the team
8. Check to see how things are going along the way
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