Collaboration Matrix

People collaborate to broaden their viewpoints, expand their range of knowledge, share resources, and enhance skills.

Use this map to…

  • Get new ways to organize with others.

  • Improve group or partnership functioning.

  • Get new perspectives about participants.

  • Create plans and records for later user.

Work settings use collaboration to innovate.

Educators use collaboration to improve student motivation and involvement .

Goals

+ Phases

  1. Begin

  2. Explore

  3. Sustain

  4. Master

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    1. Take-Turns: One person speaking at a time and pausing long enough for the other to start.

    2. Listen: Learn that talking with someone facilitates future conversations and grows social capital.

    3. Comprehend: Make sure they understand what the others said.

    4. Recite: Make sure they know highlights of each other’s stories.

    1. Reminisce: Think about the events, tasks, comments, outcomes

    2. Ruminate: Imagine what they should have said

    3. Reconsider: Identify differences in skills.

    4. Reassess: Identiy how underlying assumptions, organizational culture, power structures, or societal norms influenced the group's work.

    1. Gossip: Talk with one another without progressing beyond talk.

    2. Polite Opposition: Ask others what they think without it having an impact on their own thinking.

    3. Feedback Seeking: Ask questions, spontaneously solicit feedback.

    4. Project Finding: Recognize opportunities to engage with others that contribute to solving organizational problems.

    1. Disequilibrium: Lack balance between too much and too little confidence.

    2. Egocentrism: Think their own is the best way.

    3. Self-definition: Identify their expertise and resources.

    4. Leadership: Lead multidisciplinary teams by managing time, setting standards and direction, inviting ideas different from their own.

    1. Promote Selves: Proclaim own accomplishments and innovations while denigrating those of others.

    2. Win Moments: Win moments by making others lose.

    3. Accumulate: Recognize that making anybody lose makes everybody lose. Respect others’ opinions because they have discovered the human resources (varied talents) of the group.

    4. Enhance: Help members learn from each other, using whole world as a resource carried into daily actions.

    1. Reticent: Some members feel unworthy to participate.

    2. Cat fight: Try to dominate others' thinking.

    3. Divide Labor: Tasks allocated to those best suited to them.

    4. Synergy: The group creates more than any member imagined.

    1. Outsider: Act as if there are no relevant conventions.

    2. Stereotype: Impose habitual ways of acting from a different context regardless of its relevance to the current situation.

    3. Enact: Know what each person in the group is supposed to do.

    4. Facilitate: Create new ways to interact within the situation that make effective use of all the participants.

    1. Task oriented: Identify tasks and timelines.

    2. Rule oriented: Identify group rules.

    3. Consensus building: Identify how the group will decide on the what the milestones will be and whether they are achieved.

    4. Crowdsourcing Enlist the services of a large number of people

    1. Minutes: What went on.

    2. Highlights: What milestones were achieved.

    3. Appraisals: Assessment of results.

    4. Potential Improvements: Changes to make based on results