Leading Interdisciplinary Teams

Mission-Centered Solutions created Leading Interdisciplinary Teams specifically for managers and leaders who are responsible for decisions concerning public resources, such as infrastructure support, resource planning, technical engineering projects, and public facilities.

This 36- to 38-hour program is designed to prepare the organization's future leaders; it challenges participants to acquire the self awareness, attitudes, and skills to become highly effective organizational supervisors and leaders of interdisciplinary teams. 

Adaptability, flexibility, deliberate decision making, and strong communication skills are cornerstones of the philosophy behind this program.

Who benefits from this program?

• Public resource managers
• Decision team leaders
• Project task force leaders
• Technical or investigative expert team leaders
• Corporate interdisciplinary work teams
• Deputy or assistant leaders

Resource team leaders will find this training invaluable for developing leadership skills that will enable them to bring focus and alignment to work teams saddled with problems that are complex and intertwined in multiple disciplines and fields.

Participants learn and practice communication techniques than enable productive team functioning, as well as learning the best practices for building, motivating, and leading diverse teams. Participants come away with critical insight into their own strengths and weaknesses and an understanding of the human factors that motivate and inspire team members.

The program focuses on the most critical skills needed to address challenges inherent in this field:

• Guiding diverse team members, who often have conflicting interests, to solutions that benefit the team as a whole

• Providing the skills needed for increasing organizational leadership and management responsibilities

• Building Operational Synergy by exerting a positive influence on peers and leaders and contributing to the agency’s overall vision and mission

The program strikes a balance between theory and practice: roughly 50 percent of the time is spent in lecture and discussion (what and why) and 50 percent in classroom and exercises (how).

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