Description
Share strategies for creating connection, trust, communication, and a common center identity among researchers and staff distributed across institutions.
Questions to consider:
• What has helped people think of themselves as members of the STC rather than simply members of their home institution or research group?
• What activities successfully build relationships across institutions?
• How do you engage people who participate only peripherally in center activities?
• What practices help maintain center culture as students, postdocs, faculty, and staff turn over?
• How do you integrate new members into an established center?
• How do you create meaningful scientific collaboration across institutions rather than simply funding parallel projects?
• How do you recognize and measure collaboration?
• How do you bring less-engaged investigators back into the center?
• What approaches have failed?