Course - Interdisciplinary teamwork in practice - IØ6520
Interdisciplinary teamwork in practice
Assessments and mandatory activities may be changed until September 20th.
About
About the course
Course content
Well-functioning interdisciplinary teamwork is an effective and efficient way to solve complex problems within both the public and private sectors. The aim of the course is to build cross-disciplinary collaboration skills in the form of knowledge and skills that candidates can apply in the teams the candidate is part of, in their own business. In all teamwork there are disagreements and differences. This is reinforced in interdisciplinary teams, where the team members speak from different disciplines and working methods. In well-functioning teamwork, disagreements and differences are handled so that resource potential is unleashed. Knowledge of what happens when people come together in a team, and what are the prerequisites for well-functioning interdisciplinary teamwork, is central to the subject. The course provides training in practical collaboration skills and increased insight into how the skills can be used in different types of teams in your own business.
Theme:
Different types/teams and ways of working
Interdisciplinarity in the team - how to utilize the interdisciplinary potential found in the team?
Group process and group dynamics: The path to the best solutions is not just about the end result, but the process along the way
Team management
Digital collaboration - what is important to think about when working together digitally?
Psychological security in teams
Communication and feedback in teams
Learning outcome
Knowledge
The candidate can:
- reproduce key group theoretical concepts and explain the prerequisites for good interdisciplinary teamwork
- identify and describe challenges and opportunities in different types of teamwork
- explain how one's own and others' patterns of action and demeanor affect cooperation, and know structures for giving and receiving feedback
- identify management functions in interdisciplinary teams
Skills
The candidate can:
- apply methods for interdisciplinary teamwork that facilitate the involvement of team members in different types of teamwork
- apply basic group theory to analyze and reflect on situations that occur in teams, and take measures to improve cooperation
- give and receive both positive and negative feedback
- clearly communicate your own and recognize others' professional expertise, and handle professional disagreements and differences in the team.
General competence
he candidate can:
- understand the value of communicating challenges and prerequisites for interdisciplinary teams in your own business
- meet people from other fields with openness and curiosity
Learning methods and activities
The course is carried out with a digital start-up meeting and two compulsory, physical sessions over two days with both a theoretical and practical focus. Great emphasis is placed on active forms of learning such as reflection, exercises and discussion related to both experiences gained in the course and experiences from one's own everyday working life. A central form of learning in the subject is experiential learning through participation in groups and teams. The candidates are organized into teams that work together, and through this explore and challenge their own and others' ways of being in the team. The groups must write an assignment together, and in that context the groups must meet digitally at least once during their work process. Completed digital collaboration must be documented. A group assignment is included as part of the final assessment.
Attendance at digital start-up meetings and physical gatherings, participation in digital teamwork, and submission of written assignments are expected. Expected workload is around 200 hours.
We must have a minimum number of participants for a course to be started. If there are too few applicants, the course may be changed to guided self-study, postponed or cancelled. The course is part of NTNU's further education offer, and has a course fee. See NTNU Videre's websites.
Compulsory assignments
- Participation on seminars
- Mandatory assignments between the sessions
Further on evaluation
The final grade consists of two parts, both of which must be passed in order to pass the course. Compulsory activities must be approved before the final individual assignment.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Technology Management and Digital Transformation (MTDO)
Recommended previous knowledge
Experience with teamwork from working life.
Course materials
Taught in Norwegian. Please find more information on the Norwegian page.
Subject areas
- Organization and Leadership
- Industrial Economics and Technology Management
Contact information
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Department with academic responsibility
Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management