Collaboration
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Why Collaboration?
Why Collaboration?
Objective- Define both collaboration and cooperation with opportunities to demonstrate both concepts in authentic exercises appropriately.
Why does collaboration matter?
Why does collaboration matter?
As the researchers studied the groups, however, they noticed two behaviors that all the good teams generally shared. First, on the good teams, members spoke in roughly the same proportion, a phenomenon the researchers referred to as ‘‘equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.’’ On some teams, everyone spoke during each task; on others, leadership shifted among teammates from assignment to assignment. But in each case, by the end of the day, everyone had spoken roughly the same amount. ‘‘As long as everyone got a chance to talk, the team did well,’’ Woolley said. ‘‘But if only one person or a small group spoke all the time, the collective intelligence declined.’’
Second, the good teams all had high ‘‘average social sensitivity’’ — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues. One of the easiest ways to gauge social sensitivity is to show someone photos of people’s eyes and ask him or her to describe what the people are thinking or feeling — an exam known as the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. People on the more successful teams in Woolley’s experiment scored above average on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. They seemed to know when someone was feeling upset or left out. People on the ineffective teams, in contrast, scored below average. They seemed, as a group, to have less sensitivity toward their colleagues.
In other words, if you are given a choice between the serious-minded Team A or the free-flowing Team B, you should probably opt for Team B. Team A may be filled with smart people, all optimized for peak individual efficiency. But the group’s norms discourage equal speaking; there are few exchanges of the kind of personal information that lets teammates pick up on what people are feeling or leaving unsaid. There’s a good chance the members of Team A will continue to act like individuals once they come together, and there’s little to suggest that, as a group, they will become more collectively intelligent.
In contrast, on Team B, people may speak over one another, go on tangents and socialize instead of remaining focused on the agenda. The team may seem inefficient to a casual observer. But all the team members speak as much as they need to. They are sensitive to one another’s moods and share personal stories and emotions. While Team B might not contain as many individual stars, the sum will be greater than its parts.
-Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and the paper’s senior editor of live journalism. He is the author of ‘‘The Power of Habit’’ and the forthcoming book ‘‘Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business,’’ from which this article is adapted.
Essential Questions
What is a team?
What qualities do you look for in a teammate?
How can you respond to someone not being a good teammate?
Why is it important to work as a team?
How can you use other people’s strengths when working as a team?
What if your team disagrees on something?
What do you do if you are frustrated/upset with something a teammate is doing?
How can you make sure everyone participates and feels a part of the team?
Video Library
Video Library
Collaboration example "The Incredibles"
Cooperation v Collaboration- Red Panda
Cooperation v Collaboration- Encanto
Comparison- Intermediate/Middle
Tim Cook on Collaboration
Teamwork
Discovery on Collaboration
Animated Collaboration Shorts
Simon Sinek on Collaboration
School on Collaboration
Google on Project Aristotle
Virtual Library
Virtual Library
Once there was a river flowing through a forest. The river didn't know it was capable of adventures until a big bear came along. But adventures aren't any fun by yourself, and so enters Froggy, Turtles, Beaver, Racoons, and Duck.
Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary — and finding it in a manner you’d never expect.
This story starts off with a little stone who thinks he will be become something amazing but then soon realizes he had become a dull paper weight. He's on a mission to become something greater and in the process meets scribble and splatter and they all come up a creative way to bring joy to thousands of people.
An English-speaking girl, a Spanish-speaking man, and a Polish-speaking woman might not be able to converse, but when a sparrow trapped in their subway car needs help, their common concern bridges the language barriers between them.
His teacher wants him to work with bossy Bernice, messy Frankie, and Norma (who just sits and picks her nose) on a report about Egyptian mummies. After a frustrating school day with his “team,” RJ goes home to find only one cookie left in the jar - and his mom makes him share it with his sister! With the help of his coach, RJ learns that working as a team and sharing are skills needed not just on the soccer field, but in school and at home too!
Filled with inspiring quotes, this richly illustrated fable tells a delightful story of three kids who go on a journey to a new playground and take a stand for what they believe. The story is a metaphor for anyone looking to make a change or wondering how to pursue their dreams. And the message is simple: relationships – real, human relationships – really, really matter. The stronger our relationships, the stronger the bonds of trust and cooperation, the more we can accomplish and the more joy and fulfillment we get from our work and personal lives.
Worldwide bestseller — the author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams - and provides practical tools to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance.
Resource List
Resource List
Good teamwork tip of the week
Good teamwork tip of the week
https://characterlab.org/tips-of-the-week/
Other Sites
Other Sites
The Optimism Company
The Optimism Company
We are here to inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that, together, each of us can change our world for the better
PBLWORKS
PBLWORKS
Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects.
Collaboration Quotes
Collaboration Quotes
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much"
Helen Keller
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
Charles Darwin
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
Michael Jordan
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."
Phil Jackson
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
Andrew Carnegie
"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."
Vesta M. Kelly
"There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat."
Keith Richards
"The ability of a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people pull together as a team."
Simon Sinek
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
Stephen Hawking
Collaboration Prompts for Writing
Collaboration Prompts for Writing
Learning to work well with others is an important skill because it is something we use all the time. Come up with your own set of group ground rules that identify how you should work well with others.
Make a list of all the times and examples you might need to work with others. Then, talk with a partner and add to your list.
Imagine you are in a science lab group. How can you show that you are working well with others.
How can you tell if a group is working well together? What do you see and hear?
Being a team player is someone who works well to do their fair share of the work and supports the other members of the team, too. give an example of a time you were a team player during an activity, sport , or group project. What did you do and why was it important to be a team player?
Give an example of collaboration and describe it.
Give an example of cooperation and describe it.
What is the difference between collaboration and cooperation?
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