Following these guidelines while preparing your collaborative documents will not only make your collaboration easier, but it will also help you to maximize the strengths of each of your individual group members. Team members feel comfortable with the project and with each other. No one is either tense or bored. They summarize, paraphrase, or ask questions in order to encourage explanation or elaboration.
Disagreements are polite and friendly.
Team members avoid both formal voting and easy compromises. They have no secrets or ulterior motives. Work assignments are fairly distributed and promptly completed. It displays to those outside the team a distinct identity. The team includes members who emphasize the quality of the document, the setting of objectives, the process of investigating alternatives and building consensus, and the administration of the team.