Session Description: Team cohesion is the felt commitment and real interdependence among team members as they pursue a collective goal. When teams span various social, organizational, epistemic, and financial boundaries, cohesion is stretched and challenged. In today’s session, our presenters will share two tools you can use to facilitate team cohesion across boundaries. Bring your DIY Boundary Spanning Field Notebook for some interactive learning and fun. NEW THIS WEEK: Our growing inventory of tools presented in this series.
Tool 1: The Four Levels of Listening, presented by Anne Heberger Marino. The Four Levels of Listening is a framework that helps build team cohesion by prompting individuals and groups to pay attention to how they listen to each other. Its primary benefit is to help individuals build awareness around how they listen and the results that come from listening in different ways. It is also good for team reflexivity and readiness.
Presenter: Anne Heberger Marino is the Founder of Lean-to Collaborations, a consultancy focused on creating conditions for highly effective collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. Prior to founding her own company, Anne was a senior program director for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for 12 years. Anne has been active in the science of team science community since 2010 and is currently the Membership chair for the International Network for the Society of Team Science (INSciTS). Follow Anne @LeanToCollabs.
Tool 2: The Pressure Cooker, presented by Merel van Goch and Iris van der Tuin. The Pressure Cooker is a group exercise that builds team cohesion through an intensely compressed version of Alan Repko’s interdisciplinary research process. It is also good for facilitating knowledge integration.
Presenters: Merel van Goch is Assistant Professor at Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her work is driven by the motivation to provide people with the optimal circumstances for learning. She uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study interdisciplinary education, and metacognition, creativity and motivation of students in higher education. Iris van der Tuin is Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University and Director of its School of Liberal Arts. As a researcher, Iris contributes to the new and interdisciplinary humanities and to the scholarship of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. She recently initiated the Creative Humanities Academy: an infrastructure for collaboration between academics and creative professionals, and for consultancy on humanities theories, methodologies, and pedagogies. Follow Merel @MerelVG and Iris @IrisvanderTuin.
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