multidisciplinary collaboration
Working with people from other disciplines by learning their language and methods and establishing shared starting points for the joint work.
How hrmforce measures this
- Assessment method
- Assessment centre · rho 0.29 (SD 0.09)
- hrmforce instrument
- 360 Feedback, Competency Check
- Competency (50-framework)
- Collaborate
- Trainability
- medium
- Demand outlook 2026 to 2030
- rising
Multiple exercises, multiple assessors, dimension-wise scoring.
Behavioural anchors
| Level | Behaviour at this level |
|---|---|
| N1 Guided | Asks a colleague from another discipline what technical terms mean and summarises the answer back to them. works under supervision and follows instruction · routine, one variable at a time · own task |
| N3 Proficient | Maps the issue with specialists from different disciplines and formulates a joint approach with a clear division of roles. sets own approach and seeks input proactively · several variables, some ambiguity · own team or process |
| N5 Leading | Sets up lasting forms of collaboration between disciplines and settles conflicts between professional standards on the basis of the organisational interest. sets the standard and the policy · strategic, under high uncertainty · organisation, value chain or profession |
N2 and N4 are deliberately not anchored. Raters place them between the anchors, following the O*NET convention.
Underlying skills
These skills inherit the assessment route and the behavioural anchors of this construct.
| T | Skill | Definition | Demand outlook 2026 to 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| V | Learning the vocabulary of other disciplines Cross-disciplinary vocabulary | Learning the terms and abbreviations of another discipline and using them in joint consultation. | rising |
| V | Recording shared starting points Shared terms of reference | Recording the goal, boundaries and definitions of the joint work in advance with the disciplines involved. | rising |
| V | Preparing a multidisciplinary meeting MDT meeting prep | Circulating the agenda, documents and central question for a meeting of several disciplines in good time. | stable |
| V | Explaining own expertise to non-specialists Explaining to non-experts | Explaining own expertise so that colleagues without that background can base decisions on it. | rising |
| V | Weighing conflicting professional advice Weighing expert advice | Setting out the arguments side by side when professional advice conflicts and proposing a joint choice. | rising |
| V | Working with external specialists Working with consultants | Agreeing with hired specialists on delivery, access to information and moments of handover. | stable |
| V | Delimiting interfaces between disciplines Interface definition | Recording where the work of one discipline stops and that of another begins. | stable |
| V | Discussing a case with other disciplines Case conferencing | Bringing a concrete case to colleagues from other disciplines and processing their analysis in the follow-up. | rising |