Understand How To Manage A Team
Eleanor J. Sullivan and Gayle Garland define in their book that a team is a group of people with complementary skills, share common objectives and function in a harmonious, coordinated, purposeful manner, who are mutually accountable for the achievement of the goals. 1. 1.1 The key features of effective team performance are: common purpose, goals, diversity of skills and personality, communication and collaboration, trust and commitment.
1.2 Common purpose- individuals must understand and commit to their team's purpose, if not the team will fail, the work won't be done properly and no achievements will be accomplished. At my work place it is very important that each individual has the same purpose and working as a team we can deliver a high-quality patient care. Goals- team members have to understand and accept the process of achieving a goal to deliver the expected results. Example: a patient lost weight in the last two months, our goal is to reduce the weight lost. I explained to my team to achieve that goal we all have to work together and I have to contact the GP who will refer to dietician, chef has to fortified the food and the rest of us we have to monitor, supervise and assist as necessary the patient at meals time. Diversity of skills and personality- to bring different people together who can offer skills and perspectives it will help bring balance to the team in terms of tasks, people, risks, rules. At my work place each individual from our team has different skills which are: handling and resolving things in a better and quicker way, entertaining and communicating with patient, good clinical skills, mental nursing skills, good observer and at details. And all this skills together make us to be a better team. Strong communication and collaboration- effective communication between team members, from the manager to the team sets the foundation for a collaboration, improve the work to be done properly without mistakes.
1.2 Common purpose- individuals must understand and commit to their team's purpose, if not the team will fail, the work won't be done properly and no achievements will be accomplished. At my work place it is very important that each individual has the same purpose and working as a team we can deliver a high-quality patient care. Goals- team members have to understand and accept the process of achieving a goal to deliver the expected results. Example: a patient lost weight in the last two months, our goal is to reduce the weight lost. I explained to my team to achieve that goal we all have to work together and I have to contact the GP who will refer to dietician, chef has to fortified the food and the rest of us we have to monitor, supervise and assist as necessary the patient at meals time. Diversity of skills and personality- to bring different people together who can offer skills and perspectives it will help bring balance to the team in terms of tasks, people, risks, rules. At my work place each individual from our team has different skills which are: handling and resolving things in a better and quicker way, entertaining and communicating with patient, good clinical skills, mental nursing skills, good observer and at details. And all this skills together make us to be a better team. Strong communication and collaboration- effective communication between team members, from the manager to the team sets the foundation for a collaboration, improve the work to be done properly without mistakes.