Collaboration Strategies
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Supporting Collaboration through Active Listening & Resolving Differences through Collaboration
Learning is a process that involves the efforts of parents, teachers, and learners. To facilitate these meaningful efforts, we need to embrace active listening as a means of supporting collaboration. Active listening involves a close interaction between the three stakeholders through which they can learn from each other. It ensures that either party can reflect on what the other is saying and be able to provide their thought respectfully. The strategy allows learners to air their views about anything and efforts made to address it. Teamwork and effective communication are the key ideas around it as it will enable parents, teachers, and learners to collaborate to ensure the success of the learning exercise.
Resolving differences through collaboration is another important strategy that needs to be emulated. Differences occur in our daily life, and dealing with them might be problematic at times. However, through collaboration, we can be able to understand why a person is putting up a given behavior and what we can do to address the differences. We can come together as a team and formulate solutions on how to tackle the differences. This strategy appreciates the efforts of every team member and respects their respective contributions towards solving a problem. It allows members to sit down, reflect on the issue, and through a collaborative effort, propose ideas on how to handle it.
The working environment might sometimes be challenging to deal with, as it encompasses people with diverse needs and expectations. The strategies identified apply to work as a university professor. The environment includes leaders, fellow professors, parents, and other staff members. There is a need to maintain active listening to avoid deviating any of their expectations and also involve them in finding a solution whenever there is a conflict of interest. The two strategies also supplement each other as active listening can help solve differences through collaborative efforts.
References
Isohätälä, J., Järvenoja, H., & Järvelä, S. (2017). Socially shared regulation of learning and participation in social interaction in collaborative learning. International Journal of Educational Research, 81, 11-24.
Oliveri, M. E., Lawless, R., & Molloy, H. (2017). A literature review on collaborative problem solving for college and workforce readiness. ETS Research Report Series, 2017(1), 1-27.