Teamwork and Collaboration
What are the benefits, as stated by Millar, of working as part of a
team or in collaboration? Do you agree or disagree?
What does Millar state as the risks of a collaboration? Do you agree or disagree?
What do you think Millar means by a ‘proactive approach to collaboration’?
Within a team, people have many different skills. Teamwork and collaboration often means an outcome which could not have been achieved by one person, but it is much more than the outcome for the people involved. Collaboration relies on the best qualities of all parties to offer the potential for mutual development by sharing skills to engage, create, and understand in order to progress through a collaborative process. Listening to and learning each other’s language to engage and support each other fully in the consultation process where ideas are challenged, amplified and disciplines merge.
I agree that speaking to and working with people of different disciplines in co-creative exchanges and projects is valuable not only with an outcome that can benefit a community or organisation, but what is learned through each personal experience of the process of consultation, experimentation, risk taking, problem solving, enhances each person’s own development. Teamwork, being sociable, sharing, experiencing each phase to produce a collective outcome, can develop friendships, trust and bring happiness, purpose and positivity to all involved.
Millar states that the risks of collaboration can lead to loss of control and there is a need for compromise, in which existing positions may need to be adjusted, in un-forseen ways. There may be contrary or alternate views, which may lead to an investigation into new pathways. There is a need for flexibility, a letting go of ownership in order to move forward. Millar, L. (2013).
I agree with these points, but also importantly that a co-creative group must meet to put together their team with roles and responsibilities made clear. That the structure of the collaboration is analysed and skills and abilities are identified.
A pro-active approach to collaboration I believe is coming together with purpose to seek new horizons and be innovative with ideas to push towards future thinking. By working together through multi-disciplinary collaboration with great skills and practices, groups can push boundaries and enforce change or create projects which would not have been possible working alone.
Millar, L. (2013). Collaboration: A creative journey or a means to an end? In Felcey, H., Kettle, A., & Ravetz, A. (Eds.). Collaboration through craft. London:Bloomsbury pp.22-30.
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