Collaboration And Personal Responsibility

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Collaboration is affected by many factors such as diversity, attitude, learning and work styles. If the collaborative group does not have diversity, the views and ideas of each of the members would be too similar and make it more difficult for them to generate good solutions or ideas. Diversity within a collaboration offers different views from a variety of cultures. Attitudes can also affect collaboration because each person has different views and will see things in a different way. A positive or negative attitude will affect a person’s performance and learning ability. Everybody has different strengths and learning styles, when brought together it can make the collaborative team stronger. Diversity in work styles will give you more options to determine which ideas or views will be more effective. Within each person you will see unique strengths and weaknesses derived from their culture in addition to their individuality. The factors that affect collaboration also strengthen the team’s productivity and responsiveness to changing conditions. Personal responsibility means to be accountable and responsible to carry your obligation and duty either personally or in a group. It also means that you accept that when something goes wrong, you are the only one to blame. If you do not have personal responsibility then you will not do tasks to the best of your ability or put in the required effort needed to accomplish your goal. Not having personal responsibility can have negative effects on the outcome of your project and can cause resentment or even hostility from the other group members. A person who has good personal responsibility will be on time, will work hard, participate equally in activities, and show initiative. If you are not participating or putting in equal effort to accomplishing the task, then the rest of the group members will have to
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