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Clinical Psychologist / Consulting Psychologist at Romeika Consulting

Lessons - and teachers - of teamwork and collaboration are everywhere. I entered my #WH1010 classroom to find two of our housekeeping staff taking a quick lunch break. They started to scurry out, and I jokingly invited them to stay if they wanted to learn about teamwork. "Oh we know about teamwork, very important lesson," said one of them. The other nodded in agreement. Time to be the student, not the teacher. "In your experience," I asked, "what's the most important element of teamwork?" Without hesitation, one answered: "Communication. You've gotta be on the same page." The other added, "You have to care for each other." [Mic drop. Class dismissed.] I tried once again to convince them to stay, this time to *teach* about teamwork. They declined: they already had a job to do, and others were counting on them. #leadership #teamwork #collaboration #WH1010 #teamdevelopment

Karen Spierling

Professor of History and Past Director of the Global Commerce Program at Denison University

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Scott Romeika I love this--both for the example of how opportunities for learning from other people are all around us if you are paying attention, and for the conversations it could lead to about the potential payoff if colleges and universities could give more attention to creating a sense of teamwork across (within) our institutions, recognizing the ways that whatever our specific responsibilities, we should all have some common goals. Effective communication is always the key!

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