<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Enhance Your Interdisciplinary and Team Science Skills</b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br>Reports abound from professional societies, the Academies, government agencies, and researchers calling attention to the fact that science is increasingly an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international endeavor. In short, science has become a “team sport.”<br><br>Team science is increasingly common in the 21st century to develop convergent solutions to complex problems. Collaboration is no longer limited to sharing ideas with the biologist in the lab next door. The questions confronting science often require teams that may include a mix of computer and information scientists, physical and social scientists, mathematicians, ethicists, policy and management experts, as well as community stakeholders and citizen scientists. Adding to this complexity, teams span programs within organizations, cross organization boundaries to form institutional consortia, and often include international partners.<br><br>There is a real and present need to better prepare scientists for success in this new collaborative environment. <br><br>The American Institute of Biological Sciences has responded to this call with a program for scientists, educators, and individuals who work with or participate in scientific teams. This intensive, two-day, interactive, professional development course was developed by scientists and other experts focusing on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of scientific teams.<br><br><i>Nothing teaches collaboration like practicing collaboration. </i>This is not a course that asks you to learn in isolation. It is a microcosm of scientific collaboration, with extensive hands-on learning as part of a scientific team, with scientific case studies and examples.<br><br><b>Who should attend?</b><br><ul><li>Research program/lab directors</li><li>Scientists and faculty engaged in collaborative projects</li><li>Researchers and faculty working at the interface of different fields and/or scientific approaches</li><li>Graduate students and postdocs looking to augment research planning and communication skills</li><li>Groups interested in planning successful research proposals and interdisciplinary research teams</li><li>Academic, government, and industry scientists</li></ul>This course is designed for anyone involved in collaborative scientific endeavors. Team leaders will find the course especially helpful. Because participants will work on “real-world” team science concerns, we encourage multiple members of a team to attend together.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Participants will develop and hone the skills needed to:</b><br><ul><li>Explain interdisciplinary team science and characteristics of effective scientific teams</li><li>Describe how teams work</li><li>Improve team communication and trust</li><li>Resolve individual and team conflicts</li><li>Recognize competencies and characteristics of effective team leadership</li><li>Create effective teams and team culture</li><li>Develop a shared vision, mission, plan, and key performance indicators for a scientific team</li><li>Identify and assess the right mix of competencies and people needed for a scientific team</li><li>Use team tools and processes such as quality improvement cycle and knowledge mapping</li></ul>Participants also have ongoing free access to a course folder packed with resources like course presentation slides, exercises to use with teams, templates, articles, and links to surveys and assessments, videos, websites, and other information. <br><br><b>Dates: </b>April 5-6, 2021<br><b>Location: </b>Online<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Learn more and register at: </b><a href="https://www.aibs.org/news/2021/210106-team-science.html#subheader" target="_blank">https://www.aibs.org/news/2021/210106-team-science.html#subheader</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We look forward to seeing you online!<br></div><div dir="ltr">___________________<br><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D.<br>Public Policy Director<br>American Institute of Biological Sciences</font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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