Learn the essentials of successful group and team work. Find out what makes a team communicate, collaborate and deliver.
Group assessment require more than simply pooling individual contributions together. Find out what teamwork tasks at university involve, which skills they build, and what makes collaboration challenging.
Most teams that struggle haven't planned appropriately. Learn about setting goals, designating roles, establishing ground rules, and keeping a record of what your team decides.
Learn to recognise the roles people fall into in a group, how to include everyone, and how to give feedback without starting conflict, so your team can focus on the work.
Working online means fewer cues and more room for misunderstanding. Learn how to make first contact, choose communication channels everyone can use, run focused meetings, and handle teammates who go quiet.
Small habits decide whether a team works. Use this quick guide and teamwork checklist to learn about what keeps a team on track and what can cause missed messages, misunderstandings and uneven workloads.
Other students are one of your most useful learning resources. Find out how to set up a study group that sharpens your own thinking, and which formal peer networks Monash offers.
Integrity rules still apply when you work in a team. Find out how to credit each other’s work, when working together becomes collusion, and why you should record who wrote what.
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