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| Before You Start | |
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| Planning Your Collaboration | |
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| Why Teamwork? | |
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| Understanding Collaboration Methods | |
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| Alternating Collaboration Methods | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Project Management | |
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| Why Do You Need a Project Manager? | |
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| Task Schedules: Publicize deadlines and responsibilities | |
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| Meeting Minutes: Build accountability and consensus | |
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| Meeting Agenda: Keep discussions on track | |
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| Email Reminders & Notifications: Step in when problems occur | |
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| Other Documents the Project Manager May Produce | |
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| Starting the Process with a "Straw" Document | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Getting Started with a Team Charter | |
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| An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: The Team Charter | |
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| Team Goals: What constitutes success? | |
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| Measurable Goals: How can you measure success? | |
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| Personal Goals: What do individuals want out of the project? | |
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| Individual Commitment: How much effort will each individual invest? | |
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| Other Information: What other individual factors might affect performance? | |
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| Irreconcilable Differences: How will the team resolve impasses? | |
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| Late Work: How will the team handle missed deadlines? | |
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| Unacceptable Work: How will the team handle poor quality contributions? | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Getting Started with the Task Schedule | |
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| Identify Major Tasks | |
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| Assign the Roles to Individuals: Motivation vs. experience | |
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| Schedule the Tasks | |
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| Balance the Workload | |
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| Technology and Tools for Task Schedules | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Writing Together | |
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| Constructive Conflict | |
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| Creating a Constructive Infrastructure for Your Team: Five key strategies | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Revising with Others | |
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| Developing a Culture Where Constructive Feedback is Encouraged | |
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| Two Types of Revision: Feedback vs. Direct Revision | |
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| Before You Start: Ground Rules for Revision | |
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| Providing Effective Feedback and Making Good Revisions | |
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| Listening to Feedback and Negotiating Revision | |
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| Technology for Collaborative Revising | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Communication Styles and Team Diversity | |
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| The Benefits of Diverse Teams | |
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| How Differences in Communication Norms Can Cause | |
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| Interpersonal Conflict | |
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| Understanding Norms | |
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| Competitive and Considerate Conversational Norms | |
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| Self-promoting vs. Self-deprecating Speech | |
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| Action-oriented vs. Holistic Problem-Solving Styles | |
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| Gender and Communication Norms | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Trouble-shooting: What to do when there are problems in the team | |
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| Problems with Showing Up and Turning in Work | |
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| A teammate misses a meeting | |
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| A teammate misses a deadline | |
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| A teammate turns in incomplete work | |
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| A teammate turns in poor quality work | |
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| A teammate disappears completely | |
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| Problems with Personal Interactions | |
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| My team doesn't trust me to do good work | |
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| My team isn't listening to me-or is taking a direction I disagree with | |
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| Other team members are not committed to a high-quality product | |
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| My teammates do and say things I find disturbing or demeaning | |
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| My teammates criticize my work excessively | |
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| Problems with Revision | |
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| Team members are not open to revisions to their work-or team members ignore the suggestions I make for revision | |
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| My team is destroying my work | |
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| Team members are not giving adequate feedback | |
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| I am unsure of how to give good feedback to team members | |
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| Exercises | |