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Project Design >> Forming multidisciplinary teams

e. Team functioning

Effective team functioning will be crucial if your project is to achieve its objectives. However, there are likely to be differing interests, opinions and interpretations of key terms amongst team members. These will need to be managed to reach a consensus position. This can take some time to work through.

To support your team to develop into an effectively functioning unit, it helps to spend time early on clarifying and reaching agreement on:

  • the particular roles and responsibilities of all members; and
  • the basic processes that will underpin your working together.
 
 
  The following resources contain useful insights into the role of teamwork:
  • Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning, Donald R. Clark.  Click here for HTML version.

  • Cultures for improving patient safety through learning: the role of teamwork, J Firth-Cozens.  View PDF now. (File size: 184Kb)

  • Facilitating multidiscipinary teams: a powerpoint presentation, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians.  View powerpoint now. (File size: 212Kb)
  
 
 

 
  Some useful tips on promoting effective team functioning in the conduct of meetings, ground rules for team members, and negotiation and conflict resolution are contained in Easy Guide to Clinical Practice Improvement: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals, NSW Health, 2002, pp.17-18,
  http://www.racp.edu.au/bp/resources/cpi_easyguide.pdf

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  "Investment in team development processes (including leadership) should return significant benefits throughout the project. We are in no doubt that if participants had better understood their roles and the value they contribute, and had agreed to ways in which they could/wanted to work together at the start, more rapid progress would have been possible."

Monash University Consortium, Final Report
  
 
 

 
  Belbin team roles describe a pattern of behaviour that characterises one person's behaviour in relationship to another in facilitating the progress of a team.

The value of Belbin team-role theory lies in enabling an individual or team to benefit from self-knowledge and adjust according to the demands being made by the external situation.
http://www.belbin.com/belbin-team-roles.htm 		 
 
 

 

     

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