Team Science

• Collaboration & Team Science: A Field Guide –downloadable guide helps researchers from any field prepare for and work effectively as a member or leader of a research team. Includes illustrative examples, tips, tools, and tactics. Addresses topics including leadership dimensions; fostering trust and psychological safety among team members; engaging with difference and conflict; and recognizing, rewarding, and sharing credit for contributions.
• The CTSA Online Assistance for LEveraging the Science of Collaborative Effort  (COALESCE) - on-line learning resources to enhance skills needed to perform transdisciplinary, team-based translational research project  developed at Northwestern University’s CTSA program (NUCATS).
• Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science – A research-based approach to building and supporting teams from the National Academies. A free PDF version is available, as well as a report brief.
• Science of Team Science (SciTS) Resources – Selected references, training materials, tools, and communication channels relating to Science of Team Science as a field of study in the social sciences.
• NIAID’s Build Your Team – A guide to deciding when and how to build a team, and how to help team members work together most effectively (relevant to collaborations outside of typical NIH-funded fields).
• NIH Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences Team Science Toolkit – A collection of resources and information to support the practice and study of team science. The Team Science Toolkit also offers a knowledge-sharing forum to help team science initiatives achieve maximum effectiveness. (Currently undergoing maintenance; check back soon.)
• The Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute Team Science Toolbox offers an array of team-based interventions throughout the team life cycle
• The Center for Research, Excellence and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS) – An integrated research and training program that aims to foster partnerships and collaborative relationships among campuses. Their website also features team science publications and resources.

• • Using the Stages of Team Development – An explanation of Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development framework: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing (and Termination/Ending, also known as Adjourning).
  •  Team-building using the Tuckman Model and Drucker exercise – An explanation how to apply a team-building technique, the Drucker Exercise, to the Tuckman Model.

Conflict is a normal part of a team's process, and when navigated effectively can actually be a benefit to the team's work. 

This video created by Case Western Reserve CTSC explores potential sources of conflict on interdisciplinary research teams and offers strategies for managing conflict as well as tools to help prevent conflict before it occurs.

How to Handle Conflict in Teams: Lessons from Scientific Collaborations - advice on how to handle conflict in teams from Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

Team Dynamics: Handling Conflict – guide to conflict management from the George Washington University

Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide contains examples of conflict resolution plans.

Tools for Productively Managing Conflict. (Zucker, 2012). This publication contains step by step instructions on how to handle conflict within a team after it has come to the surface.

These resources are especially helpful for team and center leaders who want to explore best practices in management and leadership. The tools provided can also inform the development of Management and Collaboration plans for proposals.

• Collaboration Agreement template This template can be used at the initial member meeting of the project to draft the agreement, allowing all members to contribute.

• The Four Stages of Psychological Safety Behavior Guide – Describes more than 120 behaviors you can use to increase psychological safety in your team and workplace. Free and downloadable. 
• DOE Energy Frontiers Research Centers (EFRC) Good Management Practices – The U.S. Department of Energy has developed and shared suggestions for Good Management Practices based on experience with successful Energy Frontiers Research Centers. This advice can be broadly applied across a variety of research disciplines.
• Seven Norms of Collaboration – Originally created by the Center for Adaptive Schools, these practical tips are ready for immediate implementation to facilitate and/or model effective listening and contributing in a collaborative environment.
• TEDxTalk: Why there's so much conflict at work and what you can do to fix it – This short (15 minute) talk features insights from management consulting on how to resolve team conflict by addressing the structures that underlie it.
• An Ethos of Care – A brief article on how incorporating an ethos of care into collaborative efforts can foster and sustain more equitable relationships among researchers.