Collaboration Station

 Collaboration Station

Time for some collaboration! Thing 20 is about collaborating which is pretty important in social care. We work with so many other services and within our own teams and so we collaborate all the time in one way or another. This is actually better for everyone, because everyone brings their own skills and role and it makes everything much easier for all concerned. I have worked with addiction services, social work, justice team, advocacy, CPN's doctors, support workers and family members for many people and sometimes all of the mentioned for just one person. Every one has different inputs and there can never be too many people to consider. Every person has their own important people so I never assume, I always ask.

The tasks for this badge of course involve collaboration! I asked for access to the shared Google Doc, contributed to it, I set up a poll on Doodle, just with my own team and we made it a simple 'what cakes should we buy for next team meeting' poll. It was really just for fun and to show my team what I had been doing and how they could use Doodle. I know you want to know the results....it was snowballs and caramel shortcake. Do you agree?

(I did try and contribute to the SSSC doodle poll but it has ended so I couldn't.) 

We do a lot of collaboration as a team because we use Google workspace, so we update sheets weekly and different things like that. That's quite dry though. This was a fun way of collaborating and I think we'll use the poll idea for upcoming development topics and just to practice. Maybe next time we'll get some different results .... 🍩🍰🍯