Collaboration planning
Spending time up-front to discuss your team’s approach to working together can preempt conflict and increase your team’s ability to do high-impact science. I have delivered Collaboration Planning to more than 70 teams and trained over 400 Collaboration Planning facilitators across the US and around the world, making this intervention one of the most widely adopted and implemented team science interventions available. (Want some data? Check out the pub below!)
Watch the Overview video to learn more about Collaboration Planning, then follow the links below to either sign up for the FREE Collaboration Planning Facilitator Training or contact me to hire a trained Collaboration Planning facilitator!
Check out our new publication, Optimizing an Evidence-Based Team Building Intervention for Dissemination: Collaboration Planning 2.0, in JCTS! In this paper, we describe how we revised our original intervention based on participant feedback and share outcomes data for Collaboration Planning sessions at UW-Madison’s CTSA.
Some highlights include:
In our pre-/post-session evaluation data, we saw an increase in participants’ clarity and confidence around all measured team processes… except authorship. We hypothesize that our discussions helped teams identify where they were misaligned around authorship expectations and they left with an intention to discuss these expectations further.
91% of participants found the intervention both valuable and useful, as measured by their willingness to recommend the intervention to a colleague.
Participants indicated plans for future behavior change, including increased attention to team processes.
To-date, more than 400 individuals have completed the Collaboration Planning Facilitator Training, indicating a deep need in the community for tools for effective, accessible team-focused interventions.
How you can implement collaboration planning
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Lead one team through collaboration planning
If you are a team leader who wants to do Collaboration Planning with your team, the abbreviated version of the Collaboration Planning Facilitator Training will give you what you need. Watch the Overview video above to learn more and decide if Collaboration Planning is right for your team!
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Develop a Collaboration Planning Program
The full version of Collaboration Planning Facilitator Training is available for those who want to develop a Collaboration Planning program at their institutions. Watch the Overview video above for more information!
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Hire a Collaboration Planning Facilitator
I am available to lead Collaboration Planning sessions for larger or more complex teams and projects. Contact me for more information.