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How To Create A Powerful Collaborative Review Workflow: 5 Strategies

Groups of people can make better decisions and work more efficiently than individuals, as long as everyone is working together, working smart, and striving toward a common goal. Here's how.

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What You'll Learn in This Guide

Collaboration is at the heart of any successful review process. A focus on efficient and equitable teamwork should drive decisions about how you organize a team, distribute assignments, work through a timeline, keep people involved, and assess your outcomes. Every choice around review process set-up and management is an opportunity to increase cooperation and boost results.

In this guide, we share step-by-step advice for creating a process that’s more collaborative and better equipped for sourcing the best submissions, with examples of how software can help.

Benefits of great collaborative review

Whether you are reviewing grant applications, award entries, scholarship applications, or literary submissions, collaborating with a team only has benefits once you have a qualified group and a clear process.

It reduces bias and increases diversity

It provides vital feedback to the submitter

It saves time and resources

It amplifies individual strengths and mitigates weaknesses

It educates reviewers for a stronger process next time

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