December 9th, 2008 by Robin Green

In both schools and workplaces, LMSs can aid in the cultivation of teamwork skills. Through an LMS, team members can perform collaborate projects, assigning roles within the team. Team members can brainstorm, plan, do project summaries, maintain logs, and provide a final report using an LMS.

Ultimately, however, good teamwork is something that needs to be practiced in a real-world environment. Online collaboration shouldn’t do the job alone. Empowering people is more about attitude and behavior towards staff and students than processes and tools. Teamwork is strengthened by respecting, encouraging, stimulating and caring for people–not dictating to them. Creating an atmosphere of mutual respect is essential in building a successful team.

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December 9th, 2008 by Robin Green

While “teamwork” has become somewhat of a buzzword in the corporate world, companies often make only a superficial effort to actually create a trusting team environment. Many managers using a learning management system continue to foster competitive work environments, believing that the strongest will rise to the surface.

As Tim Bryce writes, “The intent is to turn a heterogeneous working environment into a homogeneous environment whereby everyone is working in a concerted effort towards common goals. But do corporate managers truly understand teamwork? Not necessarily.” This becomes another obstacle to corporate homogenous efforts–the managers themselves often possess weak teamwork skills, and instilling these skills in others becomes difficult and unlikely.

A learning management system can be used not only to assign teams and individual tasks, but can organize teamwork skill training. Teamwork courses hosted on a learning management system can be an effective tool in performing these functions. Remember, both trainers and trainees benefit largely from team-building learning systems.

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