Collaboration is so difficult amongst others because often times, individuals think that he or she's ideas is the best way to go and there is no need for inpiut or compromise. When coming up with an ultimate decision, it is sometimes difficult to not upset someone's feelings about turning ideas down or deciding another's is better in the long run. With a group of 140 women who come from different backgrounds and beliefs, it is extremely difficult to collaborate and come up with a common goal and plan to execute that pleases everyone. I know my biggest struggle as a leader is trusting others to complete tasks successfully. I get nervous that things will not get done as well as if I would have completed them. Having that trust to collaborate towards a common purpose is essential with such a large student organization. Another obstacle collaboration faces is competition and compromise between one another. Every one wants to have the best idea and ultimately the idea that is chosen. Compromise can also be difficult to reach when their are too many individual goals that may not be able to achieve with the common goal. When members input their ideas and they do not get chosen, it is discouraging for them to speak up in the chapter again in fear of additional rejection.
Recently, our chapter has not struggled too much with collaboration and has been making strong, unified decisions as a whole. I know as an executive board, we all have made it an expectation that no matter what decision is made during our meetings, we all leave supporting the decision and each other with what was decided. We have spent several hours on issues that pertain to our chapter and try to collaborate on the best course of action for our chapter. I think it helps that chapter members are always asked for their inputs and opinions when issues arise pertaining to the chapter because they feel involved in the process.
In order for a chapter to be successful, it is vital for collaboration to be present and utilized by all executive board and chapter members.
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