Question

Why are collaboration and teamwork important and why is it important that you can demonstrate these skills?

Are collaboration and teamwork the same?

Why is it difficult sometimes for teams to reach their potential and achieve their goals?

To what extent do you believe that each team member is responsible for others’ success and failures?

How important is the role of the manager in ensuring that teams function well?

Explain why it is important that you develop effective teamwork and collaboration skills and the extent you think teamwork and collaboration skills differ

Examine yourself as a team member and/or collaborator. Be sure to include the following:

Identify your three top strengths and provide examples of how your strengths have helped (or could help) your team and/or collaboration

Examine factors that make collaboration and/or teamwork more difficult for you

Identify two areas where you may need to improve and assess how those may impact a team or team environment

Include strategies for how you could address your identified weaknesses to minimize their negative impact

Analyze what you can personally gain from being an effective team member and/or collaborator

Establish a set of five personal ground rules that you will use to ensure you are a productive and responsible collaborator and/or team member and explain why these are important (hint: think about your responses to the previous bullets as you formulate your list)

Assess how what you have learned will enable you, in the role of a manager, to build and manage effective and successful teams.

Answer 1

Answering the first question as per Chegg Guidelines:

1. In current times, all companies have become advocate of collaboration and teamwork. Any project of the company is allocated to a team and not an individual. Hence it is important that the workplace is an advocate of collaboration and teamwork. Collaboration and teamwork facilitate a group of people to collectively think about a project and how its objectives can be met. Different minds assess a problem with different perspectives and hence, innovative problem solving gets facilitated. Decision making also quite comprehensive if taken in a collaborative manner and by a team.

The intent of collaboration and teamwork is same. The fundamental difference is that teamwork happens when 2 or more people come together to fulfil a task or objective. Collaboration is teamwork on a higher level. Collaboration happens when a team works together and shares idea with each other to fulfil a common objective.

The skills which are important for teamwork and collaboration are as follows:

• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Problem solving skills

It is important that an individual portrays these skills so that he is able to adjust in a team and is able to collaborate with different team members. This facilitates problem solving and helps in maintaining synergy at the workplace.