Team projects are increasingly common in the global workplace and on academic campuses. Executives recognize that innovation happens in cross-functional teams, but employees know the difficulties of coordinating the work of many individuals. Faculty view projects as tools for authentic learning, but students see a number of drawbacks. TeamSpot addresses some primary concerns.
Solution: TeamSpot encourages a better collaboration dynamic that brings new ideas into the group discussion faster than usual. TeamSpot allows greater transparency of parallel work and group editing so everyone is encouraged to contribute equally without unnecessary duplication of effort.
Solution: Everyone has more opportunity to share supporting data, draft content, and/or online references in the midst of formulating their thoughts. This opens the door to interactive discussion and greater buy-in of the end results.
Solution: TeamSpot eliminates the overhead of integrating independently developed sections of the work product. Working in parallel, team members can “divide and conquer” project tasks more efficiently, accelerating their efforts by soliciting input from each other as needed, and when needed.
Solution: Teams can avoid “wars of attrition” that can develop in disjoint online exchanges. By sharing intermediate results and discussing issues in real-time, they can maintain group cohesion and work towards commonly agreed-to goals.
Solution: Because in a TeamSpot each person is able to share content as they develop it, everyone has numerous opportunities to shape aspects of the project, even those they are not personally completing. The end result better reflects the entire group’s effort.