...Jessica Krugman UNV103 June 4, 2016 Keith Rogers Collaboration and Communication Journal Entry The group collaboration that I was involved in that most comes to mind, would have to be my involvement in a group of people that organize and plan events for people who are in recovery from substance abuse. We are involved in every aspect of these events from planning, to acquiring funding, and to setting up and executing the event. The group effort had a positive impact on the amount of time it took to complete the required tasks. When people work well in groups and complete certain tasks that are delegated to them, it makes the overall project easier for everyone. To have good collaboration you must have good communication and interpersonal skills. Someone who is shy or a loner may struggle in a group setting, whereas someone who is a good communicator and is good at giving as well as receiving input, whether it is positive or negative, will thrive in group projects. Effective communication is essential in collaboration; ineffective communication can ruin a group project. Different learning and intelligence style could have varying effects on collaboration. Some could be good, others could be bad. For instance, people with different styles could be use for completing different/different styles of tasks. However, it could also negatively impact the collaboration if people with the same styles, but different ideas butt heads over how certain things should be done. I think that the...
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...GM 591 Final Paper Communication and Collaboration In Today’s Air Force: The 561st Network Operations Squadron A Case Study 1. Introduction The 561st Network Operating Squadron, with about 200 personnel divided between military, government civilians, and contract personnel, operates one of the two primary network nodes for the Air Force data network. The dynamic of the organization is defined by the relationship between the military, nominally in charge but highly transient with constant rotations and deployments, and the Operations and Maintenance (O & M) contractors, who have the knowledge base and the continuity but are on edge due to contract issues and tenuous job security. Added to that tumultuous mix is my small contract of twelve people who are implementing a methodology of best practices for managing a complex Information Technology (IT) organization. This methodology, known as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), provides a framework of processes that give shape and order to an IT operation. These three teams, the military, the O & M contractors, and the ITIL improvement team work together to provide network services for the greater Air Force, striving to maintain network availability while keeping the data secure from intrusion or compromise. 2. Problem Statement In the last four or five years collaborative computing and social networking have rapidly increased both in the business environment and in people’s personal lives....
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...GEN 200 Communication & Collaboration University of Phoenix Wonder Gee 08/21/2011 Communication and Collaboration Strategy In today’s ever changing world it is imperative that we focus on how we communicate amongst others and how we collaborate to achieve a common goal or a multitude of goals. For some it is known from the moment they speak their first words how well they will be as communicators and for others it takes practice and effort to become skilled communicators and collaborators. It has been found that your learning style identifies your mind’s particular way of taking in and processing information while your personality type indicates how you react to people and situations. (Gardner, 1991) When you are trying to develop a strategy for team communication, you must first account for the learning and personality styles of each of your team. Each member has his or her own distinct quality and brings new challenges and opportunities to the table. For example, when you put a Thinker, Organizer, and Giver together, they will work great together in an online environment. The use of e-mail for them allows organization and structure. The thinker will analyze the situation, while the organizer will establish a timeframe for completion, and the giver will offer assistance to the others. The organizer communicates best by making notes of information to be shared and summarizing ideas once they have been shared. The information along with deadlines...
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...Visual-Spatial. Organizer. The best way to communicate with an organizer is by making notes of information to be shared. By summarizing ideas once they have been communicated. Information must be displayed in a visual format in an orderly fashion. Deadlines need to be given in advance. So the organizer has time to organize and plan their responses. The organizer has to have an agenda and requires minutes to capture information that is discussed. Using visual/spatial techniques of highlighting or color coding notes with related topics in the same color. The meeting should close with next steps and an action plan. Organizers are responsible, prompt, and want to see results. They are detail oriented and do not like to leave tasks unfinished. They are committed and accountable. Verbal Linguistic. Visual. Giver. Givers like to explain concepts and new material. Very persuasive with ability to tie different variables or concepts together. Givers are open and often talk out loud to think aloud. They must have specific goals and objectives defined in order to contribute effectively. It is best for givers to be facilitators of the meeting. They enjoy a teaching or leadership role where others can benefit from their participation. They are best able to retain information that is shared, taught, given to others. In order to learn they retain more in a group setting. The giver should be the facilitator of the meeting. Verbal learners are often visual as well, as facilitator possibly using...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper Vicky Davis GEN/200 Aug 23, 2010 Axia College of University of Phoenix Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper Communication and collaboration is a major key to any learning assessments. Every person has different styles of learning three of the learning styles are visual-spatial, body-kinesthetic and verbal linguistic. Each person has a different type of personality to help develop communication and collaboration effectively. Three types of personality types are thinker, organizer, and giver. Developing strategy and combining learning style and personality style will ensure that the communication and collaboration of each learning assessment is effective. A person with a visual/spatial learning style and an organizer for personality style would work well together. An organizer communicates by making notes, scheduling dates, and formatting in an orderly fashion. Information that has been communicated can be summarized, and displayed in a visual format, this way the organizer with have time to plan and organize his or her response. An organizer must have an agenda and be able to schedule time accordingly to discuss the information captured. By using visual/spatial techniques such as highlighting or color coding each note for related topics, the next step would be easy to make and action can be made. An organizer like to be responsible, prompt and want to see results, they are very detail oriented, committed, accountable...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper Gen/200 Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper Communication plays a very important role in our life. If one were not able to communicate effectively, it would be very difficult for them interact with others, learn, and express their feelings. One of the bigger challenges one may face, is how big of a role personality styles play when it comes to communicating to a group of people. A few of the personality types that will be covered in this material include: giver, thinker, and organizer. Also covered will be the following learning styles: verbal linguistic, intrapersonal, and personal (Axia, 2007). The success of a team environment is determined by the ability of these styles being able to work together. Verbal-linguistic individuals usually love learning new languages, reading, and writing. They are usually very effective at being able to communicate through speech, and are very good at teaching others and explaining things. They are usually best taught through lectures, writing, and reading. A person who possesses interpersonal intelligence, are usually good at relating to and understanding the views of others. They usually communicate well to others in a group setting, and like to ask lots of questions. These individuals enjoy the feedback that they get from questions, and learn easily in a group environment. The final intelligence I will cover is intrapersonal. Intrapersonal individuals in a lot of ways...
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...time. Running head: COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION STRATEGY 1 Communication and Collaboration Strategy Your Name GEN 200 April 26, 2013 Your Instructor's Name COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION STRATEGY 2 Communication and Collaboration Strategy It is not always easy to work together in a team to finish a task, but the outcome is often rewarding. Each group member needs to pay attention to the other group members' personalities and different learning styles, so that we respect where each other are coming from. If each member of the group pays attention to their fellow learners' personality types and learning styles, they can come up with a plan that will help them collaborate with other students by communicating effectively. When I did the Multiple Pathways to Learning and the Personality Spectrum assessments, I found out that I am a Visual-Spatial learner and that my dominant personality type is an Organizer. This helps me be a successful student because it will allow me to come up with the best possible study habits and techniques for me, personally. It is not only useful for me to know my own study habits, but it is important that I learn how I can best interact with the other students and their particular learning styles and personality types. My dominant style of learning is Visual-Spatial, but a group is usually made up of a wide variety of learning styles. Learning styles include the Verbal-Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, and Interpersonal learning...
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...Communication Collaboration Reflection SOC/110 September 15, 2014 Communication Communication at its very basic form started with gestures and grunts. Over the centuries it has taken more paths to communicate with different cultures and backgrounds. Music, pictures, writing, talking, and even sign language have bridged gaps that were once hard to overcome for some people. But body language has always been a constant, you can easily tell if someone is sad, angry or happy about the current situation just based on facial expressions or posture. If a child is excited about a new toy it becomes apparent on their face or the way they stand or lack of standing…turns into jumping around. But this is also a form of communication and if you watch close enough the body will almost always show what the person is thinking or feeling before they every say a word. With technology advancements it has become easier to communicate across vast distances with a touch of a button, first it was the phone and now you can do it from a computer or even your television. Expressing ones feelings or thoughts should seem fairly simple, but how it is expressed may not be how others see it. Listen to a song about someone’s personal loss, do you feel the same way that writer felt when they wrote the song? Chances are that you don’t, but watch the video that goes along with the song and you may start to feel the same as they do, this has become a popular way for artist to express...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper As we know that everyone is unique and different, the same goes for the uniqueness and difference in their learning styles and the role of their personality type, when it comes to learning communicating and collaborating within a team. That is why different strategies for effective communications and collaborations need to be created for groups of individuals with different learning styles and different personality types. According to the book, Becoming a Lifelong Learner (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2007) three of the many different learning styles are: interpersonal, intrapersonal and verbal-linguistic. Beginning with one of the different learning styles, in specific the verbal-linguistic style, a good strategy for effective communications and collaborations with this learner, is to make sure you recognize the different characteristics of this learning style. For example students with this learning style like to write, they enjoy telling stories, they like to read, they express themselves clearly, they are good in negotiating, and like to discuss topics that interest them. Based on this, a verbal-linguistic learner will require assignments that require writing papers, and book reading, just to mention a few. On another learning style like the intrapersonal learner, some of the characteristics of this student are that he needs quiet time to think, this student is interested in self improvement, he understands his thoughts...
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...2007, p. 38). His belief is that every person in the world has at least eight intelligences, although some individuals develop those intelligences more than others. Three of those intelligences are verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Verbal-linguistic is a person’s skill of communicating whether it is through reading, writing, talking, or listening. In a group setting, this type of individual would be able to teach or assist other team members if something is not understood. Their understanding of the language or word meaning comes easily. A person who is strongest in the interpersonal area would be able to collaborate and communicate either in written form or by speaking. This person would have good group communication skills. An individual with a strong strength in intrapersonal intelligence relies on his or her own thinking and has a better grasp of himself or herself in relation to other people. This type of person can think on a higher level. Communicating and collaborating can be difficult if an individual does not understand the dynamics of mixing multiple intelligences or personalities. One strategy to help overcome this is that everyone works on tasks in his or her strong areas. Typically, tasks are easier to complete because the understanding and willingness to put forth more effort is present....
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper Sonya Harriest University of Phoenix GEN 200 Pamela Allen August 5, 2009 Communication and Collaboration Communication is being able to effectively translate information from one person to another. Learning styles is the way a person learn things in a form that they may understand. “ When we communicate, we assume that the person to whom we are speaking perceives,judges, thinks, and reasons the way we do. This is not always the case” (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, S., 2007, p. 298). A personality type is the way a person may think, act or do certain things. The way of resolving conflicts is how a person may handle a certain situation when things get out of control. Collaboration is when two or more people are getting together to discuss a certain problem or issue that may have taken place or going to take place, or to talk about a certain project or function. My communication style is to talk with someone in person, or face-to-face is my first preference of communicating. The next alternative I prefer is, would be over the telephone. The reason I prefer face-to-face is because I am able to express myself and see the other person expressions. The other person and I are able to see each other. I feel as though us seeing each other, we are able to see one another’s facial expression and body language. Talking on the phone, allows each of us to hear one another’s voice and allow you to project the mood you are...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper General Studies 200 Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper To function effectively in a group of individuals you must develop strategies for communicating and collaborating within a group that have different learning styles and personality types. To do so you will need to know your own learning styles and personality types. My top three learning styles in order were: Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Verbal-Linguist. Interpersonal skills are often referred to as possessing people skills. Some skills related to the Interpersonal style are, seeing things from others’ perspectives, cooperating within a group, and communicating verbally and nonverbally. (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2007, Key 2.2 How to put your Multiple Intelligences to work for you.). The one style that sticks out is seeing things from others’ perspectives. I can put myself in others’ shoes. To communicate effectively I know many factors go into making a person who they are; ethnic background, where they live, and how they were raised. When communicating and collaborating within a group I can understand different personalities and I am able to work supportively within in the group. My second learning style was Intrapersonal. The skills related to this style are: evaluating own thinking, being aware of and expressing feelings, understanding self in relation to others, and thinking and reasoning on higher levels. (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2007, Key...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategies for Group Work When working with a group, it is important to utilize strategies that will allow one to communicate effectively with individuals who have different learning styles and personality types. Different personality types do have individual learning styles, so how one communicates with each person will differ. A person who has a verbal/linguistic learning style communicates through language, i.e. listening, reading, writing and speaking. I would communicate with this type of person through presentations, emails, text messaging, and talking on the phone. Someone who learns in this way excels when he/she is actively participating in group discussions. An interpersonal learning style is based on self-awareness, independence and time spent alone. A person who learns in this way would benefit from face-to-face communication, satisfying there need to interact with others. Some people benefit by communicating through faxes and emails. They have a need for independence and learn best on their own. This is evident of someone with and intrapersonal learning style. I would communicate with a person with this learning style through email, faxes, and letters. Since this person would learn more effectively alone, it might be easier for him/her to process information this way. There are also many different personality types to consider when interacting with a group. For example, a thinker is very analytical, thinking outside the box and...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategies Communication and Collaboration Strategies A university professor named Howard Gardner had a theory that there are at least eight intelligences that people perceive to help in solving problems or that provide tools for effective communication between people in a group. Not everyone will possess the same intelligences and this makes each individual different from the other. The eight intelligences are verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, visual-spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical and, naturalistic. (Carter, Bishop, Kravits, 2007). Gardner believed that a person’s intelligences are based on their experiences and challenges throughout his or her life.. Communication and Collaboration of Learning Styles Characteristics of an Intrapersonal Learning Style are that a person is able to evaluate the way they think. They are aware of their own feelings and are able to express their feelings without difficulty. They understand their self in relationship to others and can reason at higher levels than other people. Characteristics of an Interpersonal Learning Style are that a person is able to see things from another person’s perspective. They are able to work well in a group setting and communicate very well verbally and nonverbally. They are very good at maintaining their personal relationships. Characteristics of a Naturalistic Learning Style are that they are very good at connecting with nature. They...
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...Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper 1 Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper Luz Perlera GEN 200 July 2, 2010 J. Laura Chakalian Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper 2 Communication and Collaboration My name is Luz Perlera. I was born in El Salvador in 1987 in the city of San Salvador. Going through personality and pathways to learning I realize I had several parts of me I didn’t know about like how I like my instructor to be, how I learn best and how my pathways to learning are that I am more interpersonal, visual, musical, and naturalistic. The personality spectrum showed me how I like my instructors to be. I realize I expect them to tell me exactly what they want out of me and also to have a safe classroom and make learning active and exiting. According to how i learn the material better, I realize I like it well organize, and something I can do hands-on. In this assignment I learn how other people think of me. It showed me that people see me as loyal, creative, honest, and inventive. I also see myself as sensible, spontaneous, giving, and analytical. The pathways to learning answers showed me how enjoy physical activities and I didn’t know I enjoyed. I realize that when am sitting down I move my hands and feet to take the stress Communication and Collaboration Strategy Paper 3 Out. I did a study on myself with this answer, and ask someone to observe me to see if I move my hands or feet when sitting down and realize I move...
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