Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Symptoms of Team Dysfunction and Interventions to Address Dysfunction

• ​Description: Introduces Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which describes common dysfunctions of teams and tools to improve team dynamics.

Creating & Assembling Teams

• Description: Introduces participants to the differences between a group and a team, the benefits of interprofessional collaboration, and applying team functions to project design

Effective Teams

• Description: Introduces and explores the five functions (and corresponding dysfunctions) of a team, as well as communication styles and how to apply these tools and concepts in a team setting

Effective Team Leadership

• Description: Identifies and describes the top frustrations of teams, differentiates between management and leadership, discusses leadership characteristics, and introduces team charters

Team Science Basics

• Description: Introduces participants to foundational concepts within team science: the importance of interprofessional collaboration in a contemporary research setting, principles of good team communication, and positive team behaviors.

Effective Team Leadership

• Description: Identifies and describes the top frustrations of teams, differentiates between management and leadership, discusses leadership characteristics, and introduces team charters.

 Conflict Management

• Description: Helps participants understand potential sources of conflict and typical styles of conflict management, and introduces tools to manage conflict and make it more constructive.

Team Science in Acute Care Research

• Description: This workshop was customized for the Acute Care Research Council (ACRC). Participants were introduced to basic concepts of team science, such as Tuckman's Team Development Model, recognizing and reconciling different perspectives, and developing shared mental models.

Team Effectiveness: Communication is the Key

• Description: Demonstrates methods to communicate in positive, productive ways, particularly related to email communications; and introduces key concepts and techniques for having "Crucial Conversations" from the book by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Roppe.

Appreciative Inquiry & Team Charters

• Description: Introduces key principles of appreciative inquiry and how to apply them in a team setting; introduces team charters and ties them to the process of appreciative inquiry.

Cultural Competency/Diversity in Teams Workshop