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�Practices for Success in Teams��Thriving Community��

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Diverse Backgrounds and Experience

Communicating Across Disciplines

Large Group Size

Coordinating Between Multiple Teams

Competing Commitments to Other Teams

Coordinating Shared Tasks

Changing Membership Over Time

Individual Motivations

Member Well-Being

Physical and Temporal Separation

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faith-based intentional communities

Successful communities:

have longevity
are productive
promote the well-being and growth of individual members

The principles and practices of intentional communities can enhance the long-term success and thriving of collaborative projects.

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A good way to overcome these barriers is to look at what other types of teams do to maintain their own well-being and productivity. In particular, we are interested in faith-based intentional communities where people live, learn, and work together.

Science teams and health care teams are similar to these ancient and contemporary Christian communities in several important ways. Membership within these communities changes over time as new people join and others leave to pursue new endeavors. Both communities have shared goals, need to navigate budgets and finances, and require people with diverse experiences and expectations to function together towards a common goals.

We have found that sucessful faith-based communities need to have longevity because work takes time and a commitment to sticking with a project for defined a period of time (even when challenges arise) can lead to an enhanced ability to find solutions to complicated problems.

Successful communities are also productive. The outputs of the community are a mark of a healthy community.

Sucessful communities also promote the well-being and growth of their individual members. This is required for the longevity of the group as well as to maximize productivity.

All of these features of sucessful communities are also things that we desire for interdisciplinary teams.

We believe that the principles and practices of intentional faith-based communities can enhance the long-term success and thriving of collaborative projects as well.

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Thriving community provides the environment to better leverage the project, resources and expertise

Thriving Community

Diverse Backgrounds and Experience

Communicating Across Disciplines

Large Group Size

Coordinating Between Multiple Teams

Competing Commitments to Other Teams

Coordinating Shared Tasks

Changing Membership Over Time

Individual Motivations

Member Well-Being

Physical and Temporal Separation

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Thriving Community

Character

practices

Individual

Communal

shapes participation in

form

build

Productive

Support �Well-Being

Safe

Inclusive

Long-Lived

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Our goal is to equip the next generation of team members to implement key practices so they are prepared to contribute and function effectively within interdisciplinary teams.