Teamwork

Teamwork Unit 1.05

TeamworkJoint Action between two or more people to reach a common goal

Each person:Contributes with different skillsExpresses interests and opinions

Health care teams work together to benefit the patient

Teamwork is the joint action between two or more people to reach a common goal. Every member of a team plays a vital role. Each person contributes to the team through their distinct set of skills. While every member of the team may hold different interests and opinions, those differences are what make teamwork so affective, especially in healthcare. In the healthcare field it takes a team of dedicated professionals working together to improve the patients health and well-being. For example, in the ER you may have a trauma team consisting of a doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists and radiology technicians all working together to help a victim of a motor vehicle accident to survive. Have you ever heard of the saying A team is only as strong as its weakest link. How do you think that relates to healthcare? Post your response to this question on edmodo following the presentation.

2 TogetherEveryoneAccomplishesMore

Remember team stand for: together everyone accomplishes more3Stages of Team BuildingForming

Storming

Norming

Performing

Adjourning

The Forming Storming Norming Performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, who maintained that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow, to face up to challenges, to tackle problems, to find solutions, to plan work, and to deliver results. 4FormingAwareness Stage

Team Meets to gather information and form goals

Little regard to others values or views

In the first stages of team building, the forming of the team takes place. The individual's behavior is driven by a desire to be accepted by the others, and avoid controversy or conflict. Serious issues and feelings are avoided, and people focus on being busy with routines, such as team organization, who does what, when to meet, etc. But individuals are also gathering information and impressions - about each other, and about the scope of the task and how to approach it. This is a comfortable stage to be in, but the avoidance of conflict and threat means that not much actually gets done.

The team meets and learns about the opportunities and challenges, and then agrees on goals and begins to tackle the tasks. Team members tend to behave quite independently. They may be motivated but are usually relatively uninformed of the issues and objectives of the team. Team members are usually on their best behavior but very focused on themselves.

The forming stage of any team is important because, in this stage, the members of the team get to know one another, exchange some personal information, and make new friends. This is also a good opportunity to see how each member of the team works as an individual and how they respond to pressure.5StormingConflict Stage

Need to be patient

Listen and accept ideas from the team

More regards to others values and views

Every group will next enter the storming stage in which different ideas compete for consideration. The team addresses issues such as what problems they are really supposed to solve, how they will function independently and together and what leadership model they will accept. Team members open up to each other and confront each other's ideas and perspectives. In some cases storming can be resolved quickly. In others, the team never leaves this stage. The maturity of some team members usually determines whether the team will ever move out of this stage. Some team members will focus on minutiae to evade real issues.The storming stage is necessary to the growth of the team. It can be contentious, unpleasant and even painful to members of the team who are averse to conflict. Tolerance of each team member and their differences should be emphasized. Without tolerance and patience the team will fail. This phase can become destructive to the team and will lower motivation if allowed to get out of control. Some teams will never develop past this stage.Supervisors of the team during this phase may be more accessible, but tend to remain directive in their guidance of decision-making and professional behavior. The team members will therefore resolve their differences and members will be able to participate with one another more comfortably. The ideal is that they will not feel that they are being judged, and will therefore share their opinions and views.

6NormingCo-operation stage

Confidence and Trust develop

Clarification of purpose and objectives

Preparation of detail plans

The team manages to have one goal and come to a mutual plan for the team at this stage. Some may have to give up their own ideas and agree with others in order to make the team function. In this stage, all team members take the responsibility and have the ambition to work for the success of the team's goals.7PerformingProductivity stage

Team members are flexible

Everyones skills are utilized

Work as a team

It is possible for some teams to reach the performing stage. These high-performing teams are able to function as a unit as they find ways to get the job done smoothly and effectively without inappropriate conflict or the need for external supervision. By this time, they are motivated and knowledgeable. The team members are now competent, autonomous and able to handle the decision-making process without supervision. Dissent is expected and allowed as long as it is channeled through means acceptable to the team.Supervisors of the team during this phase are almost always participative. The team will make most of the necessary decisions. Even the most high-performing teams will revert to earlier stages in certain circumstances. Many long-standing teams go through these cycles many times as they react to changing circumstances. For example, a change in leadership may cause the team to revert to storming as the new people challenge the existing norms and dynamics of the team.

8AdjourningCompletion Stage

Reflect of success and challenges

This involves completing the task and breaking up the team and evaluating the outcome of the teams efforts.9Remember the Titanshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJaz3sinEs&feature=related

Watch the following YouTube video that demonstrates the stages of teamwork. Be sure you identify the example of each stage on your worksheet.10SummaryTeamwork: Individuals coming together to reach a common goal

5 stages:FormingStormingNormingPerformingAdjourning

Teams are formed because they can achieve far more than their individual members can on their own, and while being part of a high-performing team can be fun, it can take patience and professionalism to get to that stage.Effective team leaders can accelerate that process and reduce the difficulties that team members experience by understanding what they need to do as their team moves through the stages from forming to storming, norming , performing and effective evaluation during the adjourning stage.

At this time answer the questions in your packet about teamwork, be sure to go onto edmodo and answer the question from the beginning of the presentation about teamwork11