Home » Resources » Phase 1: The beginnings Phase 1: The beginings Course InformationBecoming 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 the Myers Briggs 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 Find your own strengths Putting a team together 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