Assignment 12 - Collaborative Leadership Reflection

Please include name, date, and title at the top. Label your answers so that it is easy to see what question you are answering.

This should be at least two pages, double-spaced. Turn in an MS Word or PDF document.

1. What skills are often required to achieve a team’s shared goal? Explain why those skills are important and how they add value. Don’t just list out skills like “teamwork” and “communication.” That’s too generic and can mean anything. Be specific. Tell me exactly what skills help help support a shared goal, and how.
2. What dispositions (qualities of mind and character) help achieve a shared goal? Why? How do dispositions differ from skills?
3. For your project, describe how these skills were applied as part of the project. Be specific. What skill, and how was it applied.
4. As different people have different strengths and weaknesses, describe how you used this knowledge to better collaborate.
5. What skills and dispositions do you think are the most important for you to improve on as they relate to working on a project? (I’m not looking for technical skills, I’m looking for project skills.) How would you go about doing that?
6. In the case of group projects where the group does not work well together, explain your role in helping to improve the collaboration. What common mistakes to people make that hurt collaboration efforts?