Welcome to your one-stop destination for all things related to team collaboration! Here you will find all relevant information about collaborating on a team level and beyond, from the fundamental traits of collaborative teams to the benefits and challenges of collaborative work. The Team Collaboration Hub provides the theoretical foundation, applicable insights, advice drawn from a variety of real-life professional settings, as well as tools and resources to help make team collaboration more productive and efficient.
Team collaboration fundamentals
What you’ll learn:
These are the pillars on which healthy and productive team collaboration is built. Here you will learn about the nature of a collaborative environment, different models and types of collaboration, the pitfalls of doing it wrong, and the benefits of doing it right. We dive deep into the defining elements and characteristics of highly collaborative teams and provide different perspectives and approaches to team collaboration.
8 Resources:
- What is team collaboration and why it matters?
- Key elements of team collaboration
- Benefits of team collaboration
- Teamwork vs. collaboration: Key differences
- Types of team collaboration
- Defining traits of productive teams
- Collaboration as a skill
- Pros and cons of collaborative work
How to enable team collaboration
What you’ll learn:
This section provides experiential insights into the set-up of collaborative teams. It covers everything from the prerequisites to quality collaboration, common obstacles and challenges in the collaborative process, and the paths towards overcoming them. We also dive deep into the different roles on collaborative teams and the different collective characters that teams assume over time, the importance of communication for quality collaboration, as well as how to assess and measure that quality.
9 Resources:
- Prerequisites for team collaboration
- What makes teams perform poorly?
- Best practices for productive team collaboration
- Obstacles to successful collaboration
- Resolving conflicts in teams
- The function of team roles in the collaborative process
- Different types of teams and how they collaborate
- Team collaboration strategies
- Communication on collaborative teams
How to improve team collaboration
What you’ll learn:
Team collaboration is an active and evolving process that requires plenty of fine-tuning to get the best possible results. This section provides an overview of different techniques and strategies that help teams perform and collaborate better. From promoting collaboration to increasing team efficiency, we draw on countless professional experiences to provide actionable advice to help teams optimize their collaborative process.
7 Resources:
- How to improve team collaboration
- Measuring the efficiency of collaborative teams
- Increasing team efficiency
- How to foster teamwork and collaboration
- Creating a healthy collaborative environment
- Promoting collaboration on a team level
- How technology improves team collaboration
Remote team collaboration
What you’ll learn:
The growing wave of remote work has been further accelerated by the events of 2020, irreversibly altering the nature of modern work. This section focuses on the specific nature of remote teams and how it applies to the collaborative process. We address everything from the psychological aspects of remote work to the technology that enables remote collaboration, with an abundance of tips and best practices to ensure a high-performing team collaboration.
10 Resources:
- How to establish a collaborative remote team
- Adapting to a remote setting
- Best practices for remote team collaboration
- Challenges of remote team collaboration
- How to improve remote team collaboration
- Tools for remote team collaboration
- How to promote collaboration in a remote setting
- How to make the most of remote meetings
- How to manage a productive remote team
- Work-life balance on remote teams