Table 1.

Team-building Strategies

Teambuilding Strategies
• Study team organized according to roles
• Conducted group formation activities to foster collaborative partnerships
• Emphasized group process to ensure group outcomes
• Multiple communication modes
• Scheduled conference calls for all team members and site-specific team members
• Quarterly newsletter included study updates and celebrations of personal and professional achievements
• Face-to-face meetings
• Initial grant-funding celebration
• Scheduled during attendance at national professional meetings (e.g., COG)
• Team approach to planning and preparing dissemination outcomes
• Team opportunities for involvement in qualitative analysis