How Collaboration is Different from Teamwork? Although collaboration and teamwork have many things in common, but fundamentally both are different. A professional community takes the characteristics of both to build collaborative teams whose aim is to take mutual responsibility for the learning outcomes of students. By understanding the differences between collaboration and teamwork, you will be in a position to make the most appropriate choice when asking teachers to work together.
Teamwork defines a group of people working together to make one goal, but each individual within the team may be doing a different type of work to help the group as a whole. On the other hand, collaboration is still a group of people working together to make one goal or one project happen, but they work together and feeding off one another. They make decisions together and work jointly rather than separately completing their own tasks. But unlike teamwork, usually collaborative relationship doesn't have a team leader. There are competing goals along with shared goals in collaboration. As a result, •
Collaborators need to be emotionally engaged with each other.
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They need respect for each other's skill on the topic of the collaboration.
• They need the ‘permission’ to negotiate with each other over process, benefits, costs, etc. to ensure coordinated action and resolve any differences or disputes. The above factors can be important in teamwork also, but teams can often still be successful without these characteristics with a good team leader. Collaboration vs. Communication It is important to separate the concepts of communication and collaboration. Communication means that all members of a team are talking to one another, asking questions of one another to make sure