Question

1. Recognizing the difference between cooperation and collaboration, explain where the team actually collaborated to produce the course project.

2. How did your experience with this Social Contract during virtual teamwork in this course impact what you’ll do the next time you work in a team?

3. How did your experience with icebreaker exercise during virtual teamwork in this course impact what you’ll do the next time you work in a team?

Answer 1

Ans 1:

Cooperation : It is helping and assiting people in need. It is demand based assistance scenario and does not involve active discussion/participation.

Collaboration : It is teaming up for a common goal where eaveryone in the team contributes and work collectively for common output.

Ans 2:

Social contact during virtual team work helped in improved engagement and involvement with others . Without social connect, work becomes very task oriented and synergy cannot be achieved.  

Next time when i work in a team, i will connect more with team mates to create a comfort for active exchange of ideas and synergy of work.

Ans 3)

Icebreaking exercise helped in opening up in a new environment . There is social anxiety and pressure whenever an individual moves to a new environment and ice breaking execise is very helpful.

Next time when i am in team , i will increase my involvement in ice breaker since it increases confidence and enhances collaboration with others.