EI-130 Individual Activity 2: When Collaboration Fails

Several team members are collaborating to create a presentation. Keiko has several presentation templates and images on her laptop, but she doesn’t share them with the team because she would rather save them to enhance her own personal presentations.

Keiko has failed to ____________________.

• Communicate effectively

• Be a good team player

• Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines

• Set goals together

Brent notices that Todd worked hard to organize all the books for the school’s book sale, but he doesn’t say anything to thank Todd for his efforts.

Todd has failed to ____________________.

• Remove barriers

• Organize the process

• Recognize team members’ contributions

• Carefully choose team members

Rita is leading a large research project to help her company determine its new marketing strategies. Her team members are confused about their individual responsibilities in completing the project.

Rita failed to ____________________.

• Organize the process

• Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines

• Communicate effectively

• Create a safe environment

Nikki is helping with a project to landscape the entryway to her school. When a team member shares some ideas that will be difficult to achieve, Nikki exclaims, “That’s impossible!” After her remarks, other team members are reluctant to share their ideas.

Nikki failed to ____________________.

• Communicate effectively

• Remove barriers

• Organize the process

• Create a safe environment

Mitzi selected the people to work on a project together with her. Steve and Erik are holding up the project because they have very different work styles and often disagree.

Mitzi failed to ____________________.

• Remove barriers

• Carefully choose team members

• Set goals together

• Be a good team player

McKenzie thinks the ideas presented and accepted by her team members are unoriginal and likely to fail. Instead of sharing her honest opinion, she nods her head in agreement.

McKenzie has failed to ____________________.

• Create a safe environment

• Be a good team player

• Communicate effectively

• Recognize team members’ contributions

Tara notices an error in the database, but she doesn’t bother to correct it or inform any of her team members about it.

Tara has failed to ____________________.

• Remove barriers

• Be a good team player

• Recognize team members’ contributions

• Organize the process

Sabrina has had weeks to write the text for a printed program to be used at an award ceremony at her school. She gives the text to Chen two days before the scheduled ceremony, which doesn’t give him much time to design and print the program.

Sabrina has failed to ____________________.

• Remove barriers

• Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines

• Organize the process

• Set goals together

Brady is sharing complex information to convince other team members why their ideas won’t work. They don’t understand because they are unfamiliar with the technical terms he is using.

Brady has failed to ____________________.

• Communicate effectively

• Set goals together

• Be a good team player

• Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines

After their first meeting to collaborate, all of Brian’s team members involved in the project are not sure what they are trying to achieve as a team.

Brian has failed to ____________________.

• Carefully choose team members

• Create a safe environment

• Set goals together

• Be a good team player