Often, these dominating individuals will try to impose their pet solution and do not allow any other individual within the group to criticize the solution. These solutions are usually accepted by the group who wish to either avoid the competitive individual or accommodate the solution because the conflict does not appear to be one that can be resolved in a collaborative or compromising fashion. Failing to plan adequately how to implement and evaluate the chosen solution This pitfall occurs when groups have spent all of their energies exploring the various positions and concerns related to the problem. After a long or difficult discussion of positions and concerns, group members become too tired to engage in an active discussion of how to evaluate and implement the solution. The evaluation of the solution needs to be based on a set of pre-determined criteria developed by the group.
Implementation needs to be planned, managed, and monitored.
There needs to be resources available and applied to implement the solution. Without taking the time to properly evaluate and implement the solution, the entire process of developing a solution is useless. Teamworks is a project of the Team Engineering Collaboratory .