We’ve gathered resources to help your team collaborate, including templates, guidance, methods and research.\u00a0 We will update this section regularly.\u00a0 If you don’t find what you need or if you have resources you’d like to share with other CoRE-ers, please let us know.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
There are numerous factors that influence the formation, composition, operations, and success (or not) of teams. Below are a number of resources to help address these factors:<\/p>\n
Team Collaboration Resources More resources to help your team define how they will work together and to do so effectively include:<\/p>\n Collaboration and Responsible Conduct of Research Challenging Team Members Stages of Team Development Team Skills and Dynamics Working with Other Disciplines Communication and Collaboration Online Tools to Foster Team Development and Productivity\u00a0 Academic research included here delves into team science, facilitating interdisciplinary teams, and challenges to collaboration:<\/p>\n The Role of Land Trusts in Landscape-Scale Collaborative Initiatives<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Chapter 6: Challenges of Collaboration<\/a>\u00a0by Margaret Macdonald<\/p>\n The CITRA Research-Practice Consensus-Workshop Model: Exploring a New Method of Research Translation in Aging<\/a>\u00a0by Myra Sabir et al.<\/p>\n Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science<\/a>\u00a0by Nancy J. Cooke and Margaret L. Hilton (Free PDF available to download)<\/p>\n Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research and Education: A Practical Guide<\/a>\u00a0by Edward G. Derrick et al.<\/p>\n What makes for success in collaborative science? Focusing less on the science and more on the scientists<\/a>\u00a0by Jessica L. Bolin and Curt. C. Grimm<\/p>\n Measuring Collaboration Among Grant Partners<\/a>\u00a0by Bruce B. Frey et al.<\/p>\n Collaboration & Team Science: A Field Guide<\/a>\u00a0by L. Michelle Bennett et al.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t There are many resources available to help you communicate about your research scholarship, both here at UNH as well as more broadly.<\/p>\n UNH Communications and Public Affairs resources<\/b><\/p>\n UNH Academic Technology resources<\/b><\/p>\n Social Media Alt(ernative) Metrics Trends in Scholarly Communications As with building strong teams, there are resources to assist in building strong organizations.<\/p>\n Strategic Planning The NOAA Coastal Services Center provides a preplanning workbook to help organizations collect and share information:\u00a0Preparing to Write Your Strategic Plan<\/a><\/p>\n Logic Models There are numerous logic model templates. One example can be found\u00a0here<\/a>; additional templates and explanations can be viewed and downloaded\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A copy of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide can be downloaded\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Positioning a Center for Success Strengthening Institutes and Centers Emotional Intelligence is “your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.” (Bradberry and Greaves) Learn more about\u00a0Emotional Intelligence and how it relates to successfully achieving your professional objectives:\u00a0<\/p>\n Emotional Intelligence Presentation<\/a>\u00a0by Pat McCabe (UNH HR Partner)<\/p>\n How to Manage Work Relationships that Push Your Buttons by Daniel Goleman:\u00a0https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/how-manage-work-relationships-push-your-buttons-daniel-goleman\/<\/a><\/p>\n How to Save a Meeting That’s Gotten Tense by Joseph Grenny:\u00a0https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/12\/how-to-save-a-meeting-thats-gotten-tense<\/a><\/p>\n Your Brain is Hooked on Being Right by Judith E. Glaser:\u00a0https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/02\/break-your-addiction-to-being<\/a><\/p>\n Learn to Respond, Not React! by Marshall Goldsmith:\u00a0http:\/\/www.marshallgoldsmith.com\/articles\/learn-to-respond-not-react\/<\/a><\/p>\n How Successful People Stay Calm by Travis Bradberry:\u00a0https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/travisbradberry\/2014\/02\/06\/how-successful-people-stay-calm\/#5757296c2f79<\/a><\/p>\n Travis Bradberry’s blog:\u00a0http:\/\/www.talentsmart.com\/articles\/<\/a><\/p>\n Brene Brown on Blame:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RZWf2_2L2v8<\/a><\/p>\n Brene Brown on Empathy:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t We probably have all experienced bad meetings – but hopefully some great ones, too! Bad meetings can eliminate enthusiasm and engagement. The resources below can help you organize your meetings so that they are productive, efficient, and appreciated (if not\u00a0enjoyed).<\/p>\n Learn more about evaluation rationale, types of evaluations, and addressing the evaluation requirements in your proposal:<\/p>\n Building Evaluation into Your Collaborative Research Presentation by Eleanor Jaffee (Evaluation Program Director, UNH Carsey School of Public Policy)<\/p>\n Building Evaluation into your Collaborative Research Presentation – Zoom Recording<\/a><\/p>\n Building Evaluation into your Collaborative Research Presentation – PowerPoint Only<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t Learn more about working with UNH’s Corporate and Foundation relations team as well as foundations for which UNH has developed institution-wide strategies to increase proposal competitiveness.<\/p>\n Corporate and Foundation Relations PPT<\/a>\u00a0by Nancy Broude (Director, Foundation Relations, UNH)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t Learn more about identifying collaborative funding opportunities, including different search and writing strategies that you might employ.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Although each research project has unique features, certain core issues are common to most of them and can be addressed by collaborators by working through the questions in this\u00a0Sample Partnering Agreement template<\/a>, developed by the NIH Office of the Ombudsman.<\/p>\n\n
<\/strong>This\u00a0Library Guide on Responsible Conduct of Research & Scholarly Activit<\/a>y provides access to a host of resources on collaboration and the responsible conduct of research and scholarly activity.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Some team members may present challenges for the group.\u00a0 These articles provide guidance for managing difficult personalities:<\/p>\n\n
<\/strong>Bringing people together to work on a project seems simple, but forming a strong engaged team takes a little work.\u00a0\u00a0This article\u00a0describes the different stages of team development and provides guidance on how to navigate the rocky ones:<\/p>\n\n
<\/strong>Many drivers of conflict within a team are unseen – goals, roles, and procedures – and are consequently not addressed. There are a number of questions and tools that a team can use to prevent these conflicts, including spending the time to develop a charter that lays out a team’s identity, mission, vision, procedures\/norms, boundaries, and endorsement. A team charter is dynamic as it reflects the growth, maturation, and changes that teams are constantly undergoing, and the charter may be applied in different ways depending on factors such as team size. Ultimately, though, it is intended to provide a common understanding of goals, roles, procedures, etc. to all team members and increase the team’s opportunity to achieve success.<\/p>\n\n
<\/strong>This article\u00a0describes 10 things that can make interdisciplinary collaboration easier and more effective.<\/p>\n\n
<\/strong>Ethical cornerstones lay the foundation for collaboration such that relationships are valued; trust is built; social capital is established; and accountability is defined. To build collaborations and ensure that these cornerstones are solid, teams need productive (and sometimes challenging) communications to assess the values, wants, needs, desires, and progress of the collaboration and to move from individual interests and values to group interests and values.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/strong>This seminar discusses innovative strategies and tools that can be used remotely to foster research teams and hold productive research retreats, while combatting Zoom fatigue.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/b>Social media is another platform for researchers to share findings with broader audiences, attract collaborators, and remove various boundaries for brainstorming and problem-solving.<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Social media can also be another impact measure of one’s research and scholarship (altmetric scores).<\/p>\n\n
<\/strong>Understanding the complexities of the current scholarly communication landscape is important for researchers at all stages of their careers, including developments in open access publishing, researcher profiles, new services in the Scholars’ Repository, and data management for multi-disciplinary research teams.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/b>Strategic plans define the overall mission of a program or center and provide a road map to get there. They can be an effective way to align the efforts of staff and faculty towards agreed upon goals and objectives. Strategic plans are also commonly used to communicate the value of the organization to stakeholders.<\/p>\n
<\/b>Creating a logic model can help clarify the relationships between project goals, objectives, and outcomes, and it can serve as an effective communication tool for team members and stakeholders.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Positioning a Center for Success<\/a>\u00a0by Mark Milutinovich, director of UNH Large Center Development, about what it means to be a center at UNH, strategies for success, and center-level funding mechanisms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/b>UNH has developed guidelines to develop, review, and sun set institutional centers and institutes. The\u00a0UNH Center and Institute Toolkit<\/a>\u00a0includes information about assessing needs, effective management and metrics, and comprehensive reviews.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEmotional Intelligence<\/h5>\n\t\t\t
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