Evaluating Collaboration with Aggie

This year I have collaborated on a YCN brief with Aggie. I was a little apprehensive at the idea of collaborating with anyone after doing a poor job of it last year. I didn't speak up enough and felt like I was comparing my work to my partners to whole time and started to devalue my work and contribution to the brief. However, I know Aggie is a hard worker and we've becomes good friends and I'd be confident enough to voice my opinions with her. Our work has become similar in some areas because of our digital process and we thought our work would compliment each others. We were both super excited!

Doing this brief has shown me that collaborating can actually be good and some great work can come from it. Aggie has been a great partner. We met up to discuss the project regularly and kept each other on all the developments regarding our separate role. Our strong communication skills helped us to produce a strong submission where we are both confident and proud of the work we produced. This was also important for the key decision making. Although we had separate roles on we worked on practically, both our opinions and suggestions were what made it the project it became.

Last year my partner and I failed to allocate separate roles and as a result, my contribution to the project got lost. Aggie and I did a good job at separating our jobs and practical elements, yet managed to bring them together in the end. I think this was a key part to what I believe was a successful collaboration.

For these reasons I feel that I have improved on my collaborative and communication skills a lot this past year. I have a more positive idea about collaborating as until now, all my collaborative projects did't go that well. I'm so happy and proud of the work we produced and the professionalism of the final outcomes. We did good!