To successfully provide health care, organizations rely on their employees to work collaboratively in teams. Administrators must understand the function and dynamics of these teams to better lead them. For this Discussion, you examine conditions to optimize team performance in the workplace.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources.
• Analyze conditions for optimal team performance and consider real world examples of what health care leaders can do to promote this. Note: If you do not have health care experience, draw on your own professional experiences and apply them to the health care environment.

Post a cohesive response to the following:

Analyze conditions for optimal team performance. Include two real world examples of what health care leaders can do to promote this. Defend or argue your analysis.

Learning sources

orkowski, N. (2016). Organizational behavior, theory, and design in health care (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

• Chapter 15, “Overview of Group Dynamics”
• Chapter 16, “Groups”
• Chapter 17, “Work Teams and Team Building”

Columbus Regional Hospital: Where a Focus On Safety Promotes Interdisciplinary Teamwork

http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/ImprovementStories/ColumbusRegionalSafetyPromotesInterdisciplinaryTeamwork.aspx

TeamSTEPPS 

   https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/index.html