COLLABORATION AND TEAM SCIENCE TRAINING
What is Team Science?
Working collaboratively with investigators, staff, and others is a fact of life for researchers in an academic medical center. Creating and operating “effective” teams is becoming more of a challenge as research becomes more interdisciplinary and many teams function across multiple institutions. “Team Science” is the study and application of principles, techniques, and strategies in order to form, develop, lead, and manage groups of individuals who are part of a research project or team.
The CIS is building the expertise and resources to help investigators and teams learn the fundamentals of team science and to support teams as they develop and mature. We offer a range of educational courses, workshops, seminars and presentations that can be customized to particular audiences and incorporated into existing courses or other educational offerings.
Several of our previous workshops are described below, and we have included a library of Team Science readings, presentations, and tools available in the resource section.
To schedule a Team Science consultation or Collaboration Planning session for your team, contact Laura Hildreth at hildrele@uc.edu.
GRADUATE COURSE IN COLLABORATION AND TEAM SCIENCE
The CCTST Center for Improvement Science, in collaboration with the CCTST Translational Workforce Development, is happy to offer a graduate course in Collaboration and Team Science at UC, usually in the Spring Semester.
This course contains 14 weekly sessions that are divided into four blocks. Each block includes three or more sessions that are built around key concepts about collaboration, teams, and team science. The individual sessions provide a deeper dive into specific topics of the block themes.
View the Collaboration and Team Science Course Syllabus from Spring 2023: 23SS Syllabus
REGISTRATION FOR SPRING 2024 WILL BE AVAILABLE AT CATALYST.UC.EDU
RESOURCES FOR VIRTUAL TEAMS
We have created a site especially for teams working in a virtual environment. This site is a repository of information, blogs, vlogs and documents created to help your team successfully collaborate in a virtual environment.
If you have a request for specific information, please let us know. Team Science contact information is available at www.cctst.org/programs/cis
TEAM SCIENCE SERVICES: Workshops, presentations and team consultations
We provide several open registration Team Science Workshops throughout each academic year.
We can also provide customized team science consultations, presentations, and workshops.
For more information, contact Laura Hildreth at hildrele@uc.edu.
TEAM DIVERSITY
We will discuss the concepts of diversity, equity, inclusivity, belonging, culture, cultural competence, awareness, sensitivity, and humility
Identify how cultural humility can guide interactions with diverse team members
Introduce the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
PRESENTERS:
Rebecca Lee, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Jason Blackard, PhD; Professor, College of Medicine
May 16, 2024; 2:00 – 3:00 PM
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For more information, Contact: Laura.Hildreth@uc.edu
Conflict Mitigation for Research Mentors
Strategies to mitigate common sources of discord between mentors and mentees.
Practice applying a conflict mitigation framework to address hypothetical mentoring scenarios.
Become better prepared to navigate common challenges in mentoring.
PRESENTERS:
MK Lamkin, PhD, Associate Professor
Program Director, UC Undergraduate ResearchAngela Mendell, MS, CCRP
Program Manager, Collaboration & Team Science
March 6, 2024; 2:00 – 3:30 PM Via zoom
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Team Science Workshops
Team science basics
The Art and Science of Collaboration: Building Your Toolkit
Creating Impactful and Innovative Team Science Workshops
Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Symptoms of Team Dysfunction and Interventions to Address Dysfunction
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Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Symptoms of Team Dysfunction and Interventions to Address Dysfunction
Description: Introduces Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which describes common dysfunctions of teams and tools to improve team dynamics.
Creating & Assembling Teams
Description: Introduces participants to the differences between a group and a team, the benefits of interprofessional collaboration, and applying team functions to project design
Effective Teams
Description: Introduces and explores the five functions (and corresponding dysfunctions) of a team, as well as communication styles and how to apply these tools and concepts in a team setting
Effective Team Leadership
Description: Identifies and describes the top frustrations of teams, differentiates between management and leadership, discusses leadership characteristics, and introduces team charters
Team Science Basics
Description: Introduces participants to foundational concepts within team science: the importance of interprofessional collaboration in a contemporary research setting, principles of good team communication, and positive team behaviors.
Effective Team Leadership
Description: Identifies and describes the top frustrations of teams, differentiates between management and leadership, discusses leadership characteristics, and introduces team charters.
Conflict Management
Description: Helps participants understand potential sources of conflict and typical styles of conflict management, and introduces tools to manage conflict and make it more constructive.
Team Science in Acute Care Research
Description: This workshop was customized for the Acute Care Research Council (ACRC). Participants were introduced to basic concepts of team science, such as Tuckman's Team Development Model, recognizing and reconciling different perspectives, and developing shared mental models.
Team Effectiveness: Communication is the Key
Description: Demonstrates methods to communicate in positive, productive ways, particularly related to email communications; and introduces key concepts and techniques for having "Crucial Conversations" from the book by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Roppe.
Appreciative Inquiry & Team Charters
Description: Introduces key principles of appreciative inquiry and how to apply them in a team setting; introduces team charters and ties them to the process of appreciative inquiry.
Cultural Competency/Diversity in Teams Workshop
Team Science Presentations and Team Consults
CCTST Grand Rounds: Transdisciplinary Research
Host: CCTST Translational Workforce Development
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Provides an overview of models of transdisciplinary research methodology and a discussion of how to create an environment that supports and promotes this type of research.
Effective Collaboration: An overview of team science and how to use it
Host: CCTST K Club
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Recognize the structure and function of effective teams. Utilize effective communication skills to improve team outcomes. Be aware of team science resources for training and consultation offered by the Cent for Improvement Science. Includes special team building activity, "How to Team Your Dragon".
Watch a video clip from K Club Presentation: How To Team Your Dragon K Club
Survey Data Analysis
Host: CCHMC Pastoral Care Research Team
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Tutorial on Data Analysis; looking at study data from the Pastoral Care Research Team at CCHMC
Team Science Training
Host: UC Staff Success Center
Presenters: Jack Kues, Tanya Ladd, Tina Mahle
Description: Identify opportunities through various perspectives to help the team thrive in its identified & necessary future state. Includes special team building activity, "How to Team Your Dragon".
Purposeful Transdisciplinarity: Moving Collaboration to the Next Level
Host: Collaborative for Research on Acute Neurological Injuries (CRANI)
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Overview of transdisciplinarity: Levels of collaboration; collaboration at the intersection of disciplines; Transdisciplinarity: Defining a NEW Space; Wicked Problems
Interprofessional Practice and Education
Host: UC College of Medicine Faculty Development
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Facilitation skills for IPE faculty facilitators
Leadership: Effectively Managing Teams
Host: UC College of Medicine Faculty Development
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Distinguish between leadership and management activities in a team; Identify different styles of leadership and how they apply to different types of teams; Utilize strategies to promote optimal functioning within teams; Recognize team dysfunction and its causes.
UC Infrastructure Workshop
Host: UC Office of Research
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Introduction to CIS: Promote and expand collaboration; Teach and spread the use of team science principles; Provide consultative services to improve teams; Develop and expand interprofessional social networks; Evaluate CCTST and CIS programs and initiatives; Study aspects of Team Science that impact collaboration and productivity.
Optimizing Team Science Aspects of Grant Submissions
Host: UC Internal Medicine
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: Team Science applications for preparing grant submissions
Creating a Team Science Infrastructure to Promote Research Collaboration
Host: Science of Team Science Conference
Presenter: Jack Kues
Description: As we developed our approach to integrating team science into our CCTST we identified the need for a comprehensive model included multi-level training, team consultations, rewards for successful collaboration and creation of high-functioning teams, mechanisms to overcome institutional barriers to collaboration, and a shift in the institutional research culture that currently accepts dysfunctional and sub-optimal teams as the norm. We have been building a cross-institutional, comprehensive approach to transdisciplinary research to create a sustainable impact on the quality of research teams, collaboration and the culture of our CTSA partners.
