Phase 1: Gathering the Team Becoming a collaborator Understanding that collaboration changes decision making, power, resources, and credit Assess your own attitudes about being part of a collaboration Understanding yourself by taking a personality test Learn how to best give feedback to others Be a mentor, find a mentor Becoming the leader of a team science collaboration Leading a research team Qualities and skills of a high functioning director Find your own leadership style Putting a team together Team Composition Considerations Putting a team together with both experienced and new collaborators Interviewing Potential New Members Get a Project Manager Assess Teams Transdisciplinary Orientation Understand the normal stages that a team goes through Things to help in the writing of the proposal Stimulate ideas by having everyone participate in an Idea Tree exercise Write up the Collaboration Plan Sample Proposal Paragraph on Team Science
