Table 2.

Guiding principles for MSI-PWI partnership development.

1. Ensure transparency across the MSI and PWI by making accessible, via cloud application, all documents.

2. Require equitable institutional commitment and accountability. Hold regularly scheduled meetings, create and review checklist of tasks. Identify and hold team members accountable for task completion. Hold Center-wide meetings quarterly to generate collaborations, share information, and address challenges.

3. Establish transparency during communications. Invite all leadership team members to articulate their needs, challenges experienced while working together, and encourage conflict resolution in real time.

4. Develop mutually agreed upon benchmarks of attainment for scholarly products and dissemination and share on the Center website. Ensure this information is shared in a Center-wide webinar and during regularly scheduled core and research project meetings.

5. Communicate time sensitive deadlines using the calendar function.

6. Frame the challenges and successes associated with team development as normative.

7. Use the stages of group development as analytical framework to assess interactions and to guide formative changes.