Working as a team
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This branch covers collaboration in producing a document, divided by the teamwork challenge: shared authorship, project leadership, communication across disciplines and cultures, geographical separation, generational differences and difficult conversations. Role-specific relationships, project planning, staff management, review-comment resolution and collaboration software sit outside this branch.
- Collaborative writing — leadership, kickoff, calendar, storyline, scientific decisions, divided drafting, a consistent voice and closing review
- Leading a project team as the medical writer — credibility and trust, stewardship of time, motivation, working relationships and early conflict resolution
- Communicating across disciplines and cultures — communication styles, regional expectations, author input, clear emails and requests
- A team spread across countries and time zones — international collaboration, scheduling and handing a document between time zones
- Working across generations — cohort descriptions and their limits, technology, workplace tensions, diplomacy and relationships across age groups
- Planning a difficult conversation — situations for robust dialogue, its five moves and a worked conversation about delayed tables