Collaboration
In reviewing my portfolio this week, I’ve decided that I’m actually not that great at collaborating. I think I’m too easily impatient and/or too social when I’m working with others. I find it hard to get the right balance and so my tendency is to feel that I don’t get a lot done when I collaborate, at least in the style of what I think optimal collaboration ought to be. My preference is usually to share ideas, plan what needs to be done and then divide the work up to do. I’m not very good at writing with others or actually doing the work right along side others. I wonder if anybody is? I find it hard to balance being nice with getting my own thoughts or opinions across, having my voice heard. I tend to give too much to being nice, or if I don’t I often end up feeling as though I was too pushy. I think this is something that I really need to work on developing more.
With my increased interest in learning to use blogging to collaborate this will be an interesting undertaking to see what, if any difference this technology as a tool can make to my ability to collaborate. The challenge will be, can I find ways to get better at collaborating by making better use of the technology? Will blogging help me? Will commenting on other blogs lead to better collaboration? Or, are these completely separate things? I wonder what others think about this. If you’re reading this perhaps you’d comment on your own ability to collaborate effectively with others and what difference technology is making for you? Does blogging help? What can I learn from you about how to be better at collaborating?
