1. Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes. Explain aspects of the collaboration that helped the team make progress toward relevant goals or outcomes. Explain aspects of the collaboration that could have been improved.
2. Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources, citing supporting evidence from the literature. Discuss the ways in which the interdisciplinary team did not collaborate effectively. Discuss the negative implications for the human and financial resources of the interdisciplinary team and the organization as a whole. Cite the literature for support.
3. Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team's ability to achieve its goals, citing at least one author from the literature. Identify at least one leadership best practice or strategy that you believe would improve the team's ability to achieve their goals. Identify the strategy and its source or author and provide a brief rationale for your choice of strategy. Cite the literature for support.
4. Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team achieve its goals and work together, citing the work of at least one author. Identify at least one best practice or strategy for interdisciplinary collaboration to help the team achieve its goals and work more effectively together. Identify the strategy, its source, and reasons why you think it will be effective.