I was actually planning to merge the reading and lectorial post together but i realised that the topics discussed were so vastly different. Let’s talk collaboration. We had a guest speaker this week and I’d like to deeply apologising for forgetting her name but she is definitely a familiar face. Here are some notes I wrote down and took to very serious consideration:

• Employers are looking for people who “like working collaboratively and enjoy working as part of a team” This is very true for ALL industries. You’re bound to work with other people no matter what job you undertake – two heads are better than one after all and one person can’t single-handedly operate a whole organisation.
• Careers in media mainly consist of collaborative jobs – it is a BASELINE skill set. This should already be a preconceived notion if you are in any way interested in entering the field of Media. Massive productions require people of different abilities and talents in order to produce whatever is needed to be produced. This does not only apply to movie productions but also as radio stations, publications, etc.

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Here is a lame stock image of what “TEAMWORK” looks like!.In a perfect world, all teamwork would look like this – smiles and mutual agreement with one another. But in a REAL world, everything has its pros and cons:

PROS

Having a good leader, feedback – making ideas better, spreading the workload, teaching each other things

CONS

Having a ‘dictator’ in the group, creative differences, lazy team members, conflict, project lacks unity or eventually dies because of no ownership

No matter what group you may be placed in, whether it’s with your friends or not, everyone is going to encounter situations mentioned above. As a part-time perfectionist, I try my best to stick with the pros of teamwork but alas, not everyone is a perfectionist. What you can only do to manage and cope with collaboration is having experience. I guess that’s why universities are big on teamwork, huh? That’s really all I can say and reflect about teamwork. Inside and outside of education, we are constantly interacting with different people of different walks of life and to me, that is what collaboration is about.

lyreca, 2017

👩‍👦‍👦  <– a team!