Team c value of team collaboration

Successful Collaboration & Team Dynamics

Learning Team CCOM/516

January 8, 2017Professor Kimberly Huebner

The Value of Team Collaboration for Academic Success

Learning teams are an essential life skill• Group assignments are created in collaboration.

• Learning and group work is integrated. (Anuradha, 1995)

• Creativity evolves from prior work and life experience.

• Communication is vital to a learning environment.

Strategies in using conflict resolution as opportunities for learning

• The two major strategies that lead you to focus in using conflict resolution are:• Your goal• The importance of the relationship to you

Conflict management strategy

• Avoiding• Accommodating• Compromising• Competing• Collaborating

Utilizing learning style as an opportunity to strengthen the team dynamic

• Collaboration is key in teams. • Strength of learning styles are used to brainstorm

ideas, structure ideas, and add to the creativity of the group.• Helps is making quality decisions in a group • Brings to the group a wide range of ideas.• Helps team to operate without clouded judgement

Crucial Communication Skills For An Effective Learning Team

• As former Notre Dame coach • Lou Holtz said, “Winning is never accidental. To win consistently you must have a clear plan and intense motivation.”

Crucial Communication Skills For An Effective Learning Team

• Setting clear objectives. • Developing shared goals.• Establishing team norms. • Understanding the stages through which teams progress. • Clarifying expectations. • Planning projects and meeting deadlines.

The purpose of using the Learning Team Charter as a tool to reinforce

team collaboration • Highlights key aspects for an effective written and verbal

communication between team members.• Reviews approach and communication strategies.• Encourages each team member to give input• Helps review the six roles of learning teams imitating,

seeking/giving information or opinions, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing

• Sets group atmosphere

Effective components necessary for team success

• Team building • Diversity training• Open communication• Conflict management training• Resource allocation

Reference• Bennett, T. ((2013), (Spring)). Group work for the good. American Educator,

39(1), 32-37• Beck, J., & Yeager, N. (1996, march). Moving beyond team myths. Training and

Development, 50(3), p51-55.• Chan, J. Y.K., & Bauer, C. F. (2015, March). Journal of research in science

teaching. Effect of peer-led team learning (PLTL) on student achievement, attitude, and self-concept in college general chemistry in randomized and quasi experimental designs., 52(3), p319-346, p28

• DeJanasz−Dowd−Schneider: Interpersonal Skills in Organizations III. Advanced Interpersonal Skills 12. Conflict: Sources and Solutions © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2001

Reference• Design: A Team Approach. Films Media Group, 2010,

fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=18566&xtid=42222.

• Succeeding with teams. (1997). Research Technology Management, 40(4), 56-57. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/213808749?accountid=35812