5/26 In your opinion, describe why you think communication is a key component to collaborative practice. Give a few examples and use a personal anecdote to support your view.

I feel that communication is very important for the collaboration process to be successful because not everyone has the same ideas or values. In order for the team to come to a consensus regarding a common goal dialogue needs to happen.  Each person can share their ideas and after listening to everyone’s input a decision can be made by the collaborative team.

Communication isn’t always only verbal, non verbal actions such as facial expressions and body language, sometimes speak louder than words. When I was the director for an after school program we had a meeting about incorporating some new programs into the enrichment time.  One of the team members agreed to go along with the plan the rest of the group had agreed on. However, by her body language I could tell that she wasn’t completely on board.

 Most recently while collaborating with my colleagues about how we should arrange fitness testing, we all had different but similar ideas on how it should be done and though communication we where able to agree on how to complete testing as a department and were successful in doing so.