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A Practical Guide for Developing Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Skills

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Editors:
  1. David Gosselin

    1. Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

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  • Develop more effective collaboration using processes and approaches that work
  • Build relationships, promote communication, and integrate expertise using brain-based learning approaches to maximize everyone’s contributions to the team
  • No more trial and error, this practical guide leads to more create, collaborative, and inclusive problem-solving environments

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Collaboration, Connections, and the Collaborative Team Action Model (CTeAM)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Crossdisciplinary Collaboration: Definitions, Systems, and the Brain

      • David Gosselin
      Pages 3-18

    3. What’s the Brain Got to Do with It? Unlocking and Activating the Brain for Better Collaboration

      • Ronald J. Bonnstetter, David Gosselin
      Pages 19-36

    4. Five Key Questions to Facilitate Crossdisciplinary Collaboration

      • David Gosselin
      Pages 37-54

  3. Applications and Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Who is on the Team? Exploring the Diverse Characteristics of Collaborative Teams

      • David Gosselin, Ronald J. Bonnstetter
      Pages 57-81

    3. Communication Practice for Team Science

      • Michael O’Rourke, Marisa A. Rinkus, Edgar Cardenas, Chet McLeskey
      Pages 83-102

    4. Effective Collaborative Decision-Making Includes Stakeholder Analysis and Communication

      • Roderic A. Parnell, Amanda Gangwish
      Pages 103-123

    5. Addressing a University Department Challenge: Applying the CTeAM Key Question Matrix

      • Richard S. Moog, Mark T. Baillie, David Gosselin
      Pages 125-135

    6. EMBeRS Model for Facilitating Crossdisciplinary Learning and Systems Thinking

      • Deana Pennington, Kate Thompson, Shirley Vincent, David Gosselin
      Pages 137-147

    7. Implementing EMBeRS in Graduate Courses

      • Deana Pennington
      Pages 149-159

    8. Application of Model-Based Reasoning Across an Undergraduate Sustainability Science Curriculum

      • Geoffrey Habron
      Pages 161-178

    9. Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Project Outcomes

      • Shirley Vincent, Kate Thompson, Deana Pennington
      Pages 179-193

  4. Correction to: A Practical Guide for Developing Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Skills

    • David Gosselin
    Pages C1-C1
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About this book

Solutions to societal and organizational problems require people from diverse fields of expertise to effectively work in team-based, collaborative environments. To create these environments, we need to address a myth in modern culture that people have natural abilities to collaborate and work together. Collaboration and teamwork are skills. As such, these skills need to be learned and practiced. Commonly, collaboration is learned through trial and error. Team members have little or no training in how to effectively and efficiently harness the diversity of strengths among team members and maximize their contributions to the team. The purpose of this book is to provide a practical, process-oriented guide that, at its most fundamental level, is about building relationships and promoting communication and learning among diverse groups of individuals that results in creative, collaborative, and inclusive problem-solving environments. This volume provides explicit approaches and processes that will help team members more effectively and efficiently create new knowledge and solutions for societal and organizational problems through collective action.

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  • Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

    David Gosselin

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