Team versus Individual Creativity Team creativity is different than individual creativity. For example, a team of creative individuals may not be a creative team if individual creativity is stifled by…

Values of Healthcare Professionals Healthcare delivery involves a diverse and amazing tapestry of highly specialized professions. This makes teamwork in healthcare delivery more challenging than in virtually any other sphere…

Clinical Teams The purpose of a clinical team is to deliver excellent health care to its patients, and so an effective clinical team is one that delivers high quality care….

True Teams The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for colorectal cancer beginning at age 50, using either colonoscopy or one of a few alternative methods. Sam Murphy turned…

What Do Effective Team Leaders Do? One simple but incorrect answer to this question is that effective team leaders make decisions and tell the other team members what to do….

Strong Central Authority John Smith was transported by emergency ambulance to the Emergency Department of County General Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center. He had suffered multiple gunshots to his…

As discussed in Chapter 12 on team sponsors, whole teams generally are evaluated on the basis of: (1) goal achievement, and (2) whether the teams have the characteristics of effective…

Healthcare Teams The previous chapter deals with the healthcare professionals who are found in healthcare teams. Now we turn to the person at the center of each team, namely, the…

A second common source of team conflict relates to disagreements over goals. Such conflict may be due to the absence of a clear vision or clear goals, with individual team…