A Blueprint for Creating High-Performing Teams of Ecologists and Environmental Scientists

Abstract

Although effective teamwork has been widely studied, little of this information is readily accessible to ecologists, environmental scientists, and their collaborators. In this article, we provide a Blueprint, comprised of 10 professional tips to guide ecological and environmental scientists and their teams toward high performance. This Blueprint uses illustrative qualitative survey data and network analysis data from an international ecology-based team which used a values-based approach to influence the structure of their network and interpersonal relationships. In addition, they built trust and achieved their goals of creating an expansive collaborative, allowing for data sharing.