Empowering Team Success: Crafting Effective Collaboration

Working in Science brings many challenges on various levels: Researchers want to be merged effectively into a functioning team; processes and documentation have to be defined and organised for the limited timespan of a project; team members often change in research projects, newcomers need to be onboarded and integrated quickly into the team. All this with the aim of getting the research project successfully over the finishing line.

The workshop therefore aims to bridge the gap between aspects of team building (people) and the practical organisation of collaboration, including the digitalisation of collaboration (processes).
During the workshop, participants will learn and try helpful methods that they can use to effectively set up, organise and lead a research team. During the follow-up coaching session, the participants can then reflect on their experience when putting the methods into practice and can set their goals for the upcoming months.
 

The WORKSHOP will cover the following:

• A special kind of thing - what makes research projects so challenging?
• What is a team actually about? - The principle of theme-centred interaction (TCI) according to Ruth Cohen

The people:

• The „Me“: creating clarity and commitment through role definition
• The „We“: Growing together successfully as a team
• The team culture & the team charter

The ‘organisation’ / the project: processes, standards & rules

• What should we agree on? Standards, processes and rules for working together
• Ideas from the agile world: Distributing tasks with KANBAN
• Documentation based on the stakeholder analysis
• Making meetings effective and productive
• The communication plan: Who communicates when, where and with whom about which topic?

The ‘organisation’ / the project: the tool:

• What do we need to digitise all of this? Collection of ideas and development of a requirements profile for a tool for digital collaboration

FOLLOW-UP COACHING (online):
In the follow-up coaching, participants can reflect in a retrospective (start - stop - continue): What worked, what didn't? What comes next? This process is designed to be open and primarily based on input from the participants.

Learning Objectives:

• The participants will have learned methods and structures which will help organise their project team more effectively.
• They will have already tried these out in exercises based on the challenges in their team and will have understood which methods will serve them best.
• They will have put together their own personal ‘tool box’ that they can then try out in everyday life.
• They will also have a requirements profile for a digital tool, which can then serve as a basis for the selection of such a tool.