What you’ll learn to do: Discuss strategies for working in collaborative projects

Now that we understand the value of teams in the workplace and the risk of conflict, let’s look at how teams working collaboratively manage communication in order to be productive and healthy.

It’s that old saying of “in, out, and across”: team communications come in to the team, go out of the team, and pass between team members. As with all team skills, and all communication skills, there are structures which make communication more successful. We’ll also take a look at some software tools that are designed to facilitate group writing.