Question

Collaboration is a buzz word at many companies and academic institutions these days. Yet many employees remain leery of working in groups.

1) What are the biggest challenges to effective collaboration?

2) How can these challenges be overcome?

Answer 1

Ans: 1 -

Explanation:

Challenges to collaboration:

Miscommunication:

The biggest obstacles comes in way when working in collaboration is miscommunication, When members of team fails to communicate in proper way there will be problem in team and that will lead to confusion and conflicts between team members. The whole efforts and energy will get wasted in team due to miscommunication.

Synchronization:

When it comes to collaboration between different team or department which use different technique or process there will be synchronization problem with those department as one department people will know the process but other will not understand it effectively in that case collaboration will fail between department.

Decision making:

When person who lead the team fails to take decision in certain important situation the collaboration will fail instantly in team, when leader don’t know which path to take or no way to take at that time collaboration will fail.

Negativity:

When there are certain people who don’t have confidence and always end up talking negatively on situation or problem and tell that there will be no result from this process or collaboration. There are always one or two people in every team that will negatively demoralize whole team about failing.

Ans: 2 -

How to overcome this challenges:

• There are certain way to tackle miscommunication in team when collaborating, make sure if anyone has doubt in any topic or process. Manager must ensure that there is clear flow of communication in team and no one gets confused in any situation or at time. Make sure that everyone in team is well aware about goal and process.
• In order to make sure there is better amount of synchronization between departments is to use process that is well understood by every department and is common to use in between all department at a time.
• Make sure the decision process is less complicated for manager and involve different members in decision making and ask for various idea from those members as well. Take time in decision making and take inputs of staff members also.
• Manager or leader must have to be positive when there is presence of negative element in team and create positive atmosphere among staff members. Give team member and those negative person suggestion and advice to stay motivated in any situation and never lose hope in any situation.