Phase 2: Launching the Team Know your team Understanding Your Team’s Evolution Understand your team’s and institutions’ strengths and limits Team Planning Option 1: Develop shared vision and goals and a sense of everyone being on the “team” Option 2: Develop a Team Charter Option 3: Develop Ground Rules Develop an Action Plan, even a Gantt Chart with dependencies highlighted along with roles and responsibilities Examine and Align the Motivations of Individuals to the Group Vision Team Building Preparing and Running a Kickoff Meeting Icebreakers Developing Trust Collaborative Agreement “Welcome to my team” Template Language to insert into an offer letter or pre-tenure agreement What to include in review statements or letters of support for promotion or tenure of early career interdisciplinary researchers Other things that foster trust among team members Communicating with the team Create Psychological Safety Develop a Communication Covenant Communicate in a way that encourages collaboration Seven Norms of Collaboration: A Supporting Toolkit Learn to integrate your knowledge with that of others Not everyone uses the same vocabulary or work style Helping others grow in knowledge Collaboration Tools Collect the suite of tools that best support collaboration Space Considerations Design the space that allows individual work, collaboration plus awareness about what is going on
