Paper Tigers Using Social Norms: A Strategic Workshop Design for Maximising Collaborative Success
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Collaboration is seen as a cornerstone for contemporary success, yet managing its challenges is often overlooked. How can we harness its benefits while mitigating its drawbacks efficiently? This paper introduces a pedagogical pattern that delves into the transformative power of social norms within interactive workshops for participants pursuing individual projects. The pattern emerges from an observation that workshop participants show reluctance to invest mental energy unless immediate returns for their own projects are evident. Through the proposed workshop design, the aim is to strike a delicate balance: leveraging collective resources while avoiding social loafing. Practical experiences with this workshop design yielded positive outcomes. Participants showed more motivation and newfound willingness to actively contribute to interactive formats. Tailored for practitioners, educators, and facilitators in project-based learning, this paper offers a nuanced approach for fostering collaboration without solely relying on conventional group-based projects.
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