With the advent of technology, the facilitator's role tends to get tremendously underestimated. Its important to note that its totally the facilitator's job to ensure that the focus of the group remains collaboration and not competition. Frequent regrouping, giving everyone an opportunity to win and to collaborate with everyone, ensures that the participants focus more on working with each other and doing it more efficiently. Soon enough, competition is just a side story, cuz you may win this time, but you may just lose the next time round. I just wish "competition" is never regarded as a bad word, cuz removing competition from a classroom could mean doing away with a lot of tempo.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Competition vs Collaboration
Having been a professional trainer for a very long time, I see competition to be a very important tool to make training effective. I cant emphasise this enough. As it turns out, many people believe that competition in the classroom kills the threads of collaboration. I for one dont believe this to be true, being a big believer in the principles of collaborative decision making.
With the advent of technology, the facilitator's role tends to get tremendously underestimated. Its important to note that its totally the facilitator's job to ensure that the focus of the group remains collaboration and not competition. Frequent regrouping, giving everyone an opportunity to win and to collaborate with everyone, ensures that the participants focus more on working with each other and doing it more efficiently. Soon enough, competition is just a side story, cuz you may win this time, but you may just lose the next time round. I just wish "competition" is never regarded as a bad word, cuz removing competition from a classroom could mean doing away with a lot of tempo.
With the advent of technology, the facilitator's role tends to get tremendously underestimated. Its important to note that its totally the facilitator's job to ensure that the focus of the group remains collaboration and not competition. Frequent regrouping, giving everyone an opportunity to win and to collaborate with everyone, ensures that the participants focus more on working with each other and doing it more efficiently. Soon enough, competition is just a side story, cuz you may win this time, but you may just lose the next time round. I just wish "competition" is never regarded as a bad word, cuz removing competition from a classroom could mean doing away with a lot of tempo.
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