ABSTRACT
This chapter explores both the disciplines and the members’ personal experiences of their discipline. It focuses on the individual team members, asking them to reflect on and share their own discipline and some of their life history and personal context. The chapter considers the team itself and the attributes that characterize the team. A mechanism to encourage finding common ground as a team is to specify the formal and informal communication strategies of the team. Teams must collectively agree upon required mandatory attendance by all members versus those meetings that are pertinent to specific disciplines only. Informal communication is an important part of the daily interactions of the team members as they work together. Role boundary issues, scope of practice, and accountability have been persistently identified as sources of team conflict in the literature.
