Director: Aims and Objectives

Being a director is a test of collaboration skills
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Aims: General, broad and strategic e.g. to make a website interactive
Objectives:  Allow aims to be achieved.  They are specific, clearly defined and can be used to evaluate relative success e.g. an objective to support the aim of making a website interactive would be to provide opportunities for users to upload content.

Quiz for Aims and Objectives

Aims and Objectives

 Leadership

Aim: Maintaining a positive work space in the group

• Constructive criticism is allowed
• Receiving and giving feedback in a positive manner
• Involve everyone
• Contribute to ideas
• Understand group members feelings
• Treat with respect
• Ask questions and thoughts before making a decision
• Motivate members
• Assign work that is possible 
• Know members strength and weaknesses 

Aim: Being a good role model and demonstrate leadership suitably

• Manage resources and time
• Check up on everyone if they're on task
• Motivate group members
• Make them committed
• Listen to their ideas
• See what they have to say
• Thoughts before making a decision
• Using members strengths and weaknesses for assigning work
• Produce a high-quality outcome
• Make every group member have a good understanding
• Of what to do
• Theme of issue
• Purpose of issue
• Purpose of explorations and IEA
• Ensure group members are caught up
• Have a plan
• Time-frame
• Check their blogs

Communication

Aim: Efficient collaboration

• Social Media to communicate
• Clear communication
• Giving proper information
• Providing things on time
• Using social media to communicate
• Listen to group members
• What they have to say
• Active listening

Aim: Good understanding of every group member

• Talk to group members
• Relate to them
• Befriend them
• Find out things in common
• Eg. Sports, Gaming, Art
• Ask them what they think they're strengths and weaknesses are

Management

Aim: Produce a high video that gives a message and meets the criteria

• Retouch with advanced editing techniques
• Use a microphone for good audio
• Use a tripod for stability of video
• Have lots of b-roll
• Follow the criteria

Aim: Effectively plan and follow it

• Set time frames
• Set a homework doc
• Remind group members on whatsapp to do their blog

Aim: Have a broad range of research

• Secondary research
• Internal
• External
• Newspapers, magazines
• Internet
• Primary research
• Questionnaire
• Interviews
• Focus Group
• Observation

Collaborative Dispositions

Green Section - What I think I'm good at

1. Active Listener
2. Excellence Controller
3. Energiser
4. Relations Manager

Active Listener
Receptive to others ideas and draws out details and depth through open questions.
(Who, what, why, where, how, when)
“How could the group develop your idea further?”

Excellence Controller
Maintains effective collaboration and high quality outcomes. Motivates group to be better than they thought they could be.
“We can do better than this”

Energiser
Leads from the front with enthusiasm and motivates others. Their personal motivation is infectious.
“Come on let’s stop sitting around talking. Lets try it out”

Relations Manager
Effective reader of peers’ emotions. Resolves conflicts by helping everyone understand each other’s point of view.
“You need to see the problem from the other side”

Blue Section - Important for my role

1. Out-of-the-boxer
2. Reality Maker
3. Polisher

Out of the boxer
Innovative, inventive, creative, original, imaginative, unorthodox, problem solving, spontaneous.

“The first thing that comes into my head is . . .”

Reality Maker
Takes the developing ideas and starts to shape them towards the end product. May also stretch ‘reality’ to fit developing ideas.

“That’s great, but we’ll need some changes to make it work”

Polisher
Refines and finishes the group’s ideas with great attention to detail. Works well under pressure of time.

“That is still not as strong as it could be, let’s practice it again”

Red Section - Need to work on not doing

1. Perfectionist
2. Weightier
3. Blocker

Perfectionist

Never satisfied with their work or the work of others. Have unrealistic standards and every detail must be perfect or the perfectionist becomes negative.

“It’s not right”

Weightier

Are passive and add no value to the work. They may be silent or incapable of contribution. They will also procrastinate, to avoid judgment of their finished tasks.

“ . . .  (silence) . . .”

Blocker
Is critical of everything, but offers no suggests improving the situation. Will use their ‘criticism’ as a reason not to move forward.

“No, it wont work”

Collaborating with Empathy

I can help my group to work positively together

How do you demonstrate the social dispositions?

How do you speak up for your own rights and needs within a group?

How do you show sensitivity to others’ feelings, needs and cultures?

How do you give sensitive feedback to others?

How do you react to feedback from others?

How well do you avoid demonstrating the dysfunctional dispositions?

I can monitor the group and resolve conflict when necessary

How do you demonstrate conflict-resolution dispositions?

Collaborating Effectively

I can demonstrate leadership when appropriate

How do you decide when to lead, when to co-lead and when to follow?

How do you decide when to talk and when to listen?

How can you act as a chair?

How do you manage resources?

How can you ensure that your group makes clear and fair decisions?

How well can you ensure that your group achieves its aim?

I can help my group complete a project by taking on roles and tasks

How do you accept responsibility for your own contribution to group work?

How do you give meaningful feedback to others?

How do you act upon feedback that you receive from others?

How well do you help your group to make decisions?

How do you demonstrate task dispositions?

Creating

I can create a piece of communication for a specific audience

How do you create a relationship with the audience?

How do you elicit a response from the audience?

To what extent do you consider the level of understanding of the audience?

What aspects are included because you have considered the needs of the audience?

How do you control the level of formality?

I can create a piece of communication that achieves its purpose

What is the main purpose and how do you attempt to achieve this?

How accurate is the vocabulary and sentence structure?

How is the style or approach aligned with the purpose?