Teamwork/Collaboration

Teamwork/Collaboration falls under the Intellectual Toolkit Capacity.

Training in and the practical experience of teamwork teaches the process of innovation, develops leadership, and fosters knowledge of one’s own strengths and appreciation for those of others.

Collaboration defines the 21st-century workplace. Employers rely increasingly on teams—groups of people with different backgrounds and training who tackle projects jointly—and they identify the ability to collaborate with these diverse groups as an essential skill for almost every position. Civic life in an increasingly interdependent world also calls more and more for the ability to collaborate with people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives, build consensus, and compromise for the good of a broader purpose.

Learning Outcomes

  1. As a result of explicit training in teamwork and sustained experiences of collaborating with others, students will be able to identify the characteristics of a well-functioning team.
  2. Students will demonstrate an ability to use the tools and strategies of working successfully with a group or team. This includes, but is not limited to:
    1. An ability to assign and undertake roles and responsibilities amongst members of a team.
    2. An ability to give and receive feedback within their own team and to meaningfully process this and other feedback, such as from additional teams, from an instructor, and/or in self-reflection.
    3. An ability to engage in meaningful group reflection that inspires collective ownership of results.

Courses

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