Think about an online collaboration that you were involved with and reflect on the ways that things went wrong in the collaboration.
In the discussion forum below, describe the situation. Now give a solution that you could have used / or did use to solve the conflict.
Reflect on whether it was successful or not.
Once you completed the activity, then click on the button below to continue.
The conflict occured within the employment environment. The objective of the collaboration was staff development on subject content. One group member's language was unsuitable to the situation , whereby other members felt intimidated. The entire collaboration was futile.
In our group one team member,who ha a strong background in design, became overly dominant in the decision making process,dismissing others ideas and imposing her own vision. This led to frustration and resentment among the rest of us who felt our contribution were undervalued, to solve the problem we decided to take a break and reconvene the next day before the next meeting, I suggested that we establish clear roles and responsibilities for each team member ensuring that everyone's strength were utilized and valued
To address the issue, I suggested that we set up a weekly check-in meeting via video call to make sure everyone was on the same page. We also used a shared Google Doc where we listed specific tasks, deadlines, and who was responsible for each task. This helped keep everyone accountable.
Additionally, I reached out individually to members who hadn’t been responding or contributing as expected, offering assistance and asking if there were any challenges preventing them from completing their work.
I remember when i was in high school ,i was in group whereby ideas of other group members were not taken into consideration and also some members were not participating .
it was an online class on teams ...of course we"re multiracial so the easy way to accommodate everyone was communicating in english ..how the lecturer said one can express themselves in the own language and that was the worst decision ever because the class was just chaotic half of the class was not bilingual the first person to asked a question spoke in Tswana i understood the question most did not and second one spoke in Xhosa the others complained they didn't understand her..all of that could've been avoided by just communicating english