Week 4 - Collaboration

ETHICS – code of behavior generally recognized.

Ethical behaviour

Trustworthy and ethical behaviour in collaboration may relate to:

•        acknowledging discomfort or anger
•        being prepared to fully participate
•        communicating in an open way
•        honesty
•        honouring commitments
•        sensitivity to social, cultural, personal situations and dynamics
•        showing respect
•        understanding of the consequences of actions
•        Kindness – don’t be mean
•        Be flexible and open to ideas

We were asked to add two items to the list (highlighted above) and also split into two groups – essential and secondary, however I have chosen to put them all in the essential group as I believe they are all equally important in collaborating effectively.

A couple of examples of these behaviours are:

•        Be flexible and open to ideas – someone may give there opinions on your design.  Considering some opinions could add value to your design.  Totally dismissing other ideas could jeapordise the success of you final design.
•        Honouring commitments – if you commit to a task in a collaboration project such as layouting out a publication you have both worked on, you need to follow through and actually do it, otherwise the project will not come to fruition and deemed a failure for the whole group/team.

Trust & creative partnerships - GROUP EXERCISE

PART 1: Who’s Got a Dollar?

• Demo

• Silent Reflection

Would you volunteer your money - that is, take risk?

Yes probably if I had it on me.

How did you feel?

Fine, as I didn’t have any money on me, I probably would of for this exercise although I’m not sure what the point of the money exchange was – was it if you gave a good answer you got given the money?

Did you feel a little sheepish?

No as I had a good excuse of not having any money.

What about when the ante was upped to ten dollars?

I probably would of wanted my money back at the end of the exercise or something in return for the money

Twenty?

I probably would not have given $20 as I was unsure if I would get it back?

Did you think the volunteers were foolish?

No, I think they were just taking part in the exercise and doing what was asked of them.

Trust & creative partnerships - GROUP EXERCISE

PART 2: Eye Contact

Ethical Behaviour: We both fully participated in this exercise

Trust: Staring each other in the eyes is difficult with people you hardly know. My first partner looked away over 10 times, I think I looked away a few times too.  It was very uncomfortable.

PART 3: Eye Contact with Touch

Ethical Behaviour: We both fully participated in this exercise

Trust: We were both getting a little more confident with this excercise.  It was still a little uncomfortable as it is unusual to hold hands and stare in each others eyes with people that you hardly know.

PART 4: Proximity – comfortable / closer / further

Ethical Behaviour: We both fully participated in this exercise

Trust: We were both getting a little more confident with this excercise. It was still a little uncomfortable as it is unusual to hold hands and stare in each others eyes with people that you hardly know.  Overall even though there was no real communiction point (conveying a message) I think these exercises brought us together more as a group and to be able to fully participate in group tasks with more confidence and enthusiasm.

PART 5: Blog

•        draw quick icons / diagrams to represent the above exercises

•        comment on your feelings and observations

•        in relation to creative partnerships, address these 2 items for each exercise
1. ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR 2. TRUST

In this video she talks about eye contact being important for interpersonal relationships, it:

• secures attention
• signals nature of the relationship
• shows interest
• regulate the conversation