The Community and Collaboration Core’s Team Science trainings offer collaborative learning and practical tips on building effective multidisciplinary, translational science teams.
Overview
Working across disciplines brings both opportunities and challenges, at times leading to gaps in understanding and conflict that can hinder innovation. This seminar offers actionable strategies to strengthen collaboration by improving cognitive and affective integration—building shared understanding, trust, and respect among diverse experts. We’ll discuss the importance of channeling disagreements into productive debate and deliberation, turning conflict into a driver of creativity and team success.
Objectives
- Understand the sources and types of conflict that arise in interdependent work relationships and teams;
- Learn how to identify and bridge differences in perspectives, values, and priorities that drive conflict;
- Apply evidence-based strategies to manage and express conflict productively to strengthen trust, collaboration, and team performance.
What is Team Science?
The concept of Team Science answers the question, “How do groups, particularly interdisciplinary groups, move through a process together?” Advances in translational research are increasingly dependent on teams of individuals with different perspectives and skills working collaboratively towards a common goal. How team members collaborate and communicate continues to evolve, particularly in environments rich in knowledge. Collaboration among teams goes beyond traditional boundaries, accommodating an increasingly blended and dispersed workforce.
Target Audience
Team Science trainings are appropriate for any Johns Hopkins or ICTR partner researcher interested in improving their ability to lead or work within interdisciplinary research teams effectively. Interdisciplinary research teams can look like many things. It might be cross-school collaborations (e.g., Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Education, or Business), collaborations across different department or fields of study, or collaborations with different types of organizations and institutions (e.g., community-academic partnerships). Whether you are starting a new team or seeking to enhance the effectiveness of your current team, this workshop will provide you with insights and tools to apply in your work.