3171 Lead And Manage A Team Within A Health And Social Care Setting

To start with it is sensible to gain an understanding of the definition of Leader versus Manager and the positions which these key roles occupy within Health and Social care.

510 Lead and manage a team within a health and social care or children and young people's setting

As a worker when you use the technique of reflective practice you have the opportunity to learn from your experience through practice,

Wheelan (2013) identifies the four stages of team development and provides detailed explanation of how a group transforms itself from a stage one group of uncertainty into a successful, highly productive stage four team. This requires work and a thorough understanding of the many internal/external influences that can occur during each stage. A team member or leader who is well versed in these stages and who can evolve with each stage will be better equipped to deal with possible obstacles that can hinder group progress and implement practices to help the group successfully work through a

strategies and information to ensure that one is able to uphold ‘Inclusive practice’ which is a vital part

The features of effective team performance are set out in Brian Tuckman’s phases of team development theory, ‘Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing.’ This outlines the phases that a team will go through in order to become effective and reach maturity. At the ‘Forming’ stage of team development individual roles and responsibilities are unclear and each member of the team is concerned to avoid conflict with each other. From this point the team will go through the ‘Storming’ phase which is when they start to conflict as individuals put forward ideas which will be challenged by others in a bid to gain power and position over others. After this the ‘Norming’ phase follows and it is at this point that individual roles are defined and accepted

Working in the health care environment the world needs effective, wise and visionary leaders, leadership matters in every organisation to change the health care environment so it may continue to grow to ensure it gives us better evidence based practice (Evans & M.L, 2015, p 34-50). All health care professionals are required at some point in their position to engage in management or leadership. As an AIN, EN or RN they all have a responsibility to educate, lead and manage within the health care profession (Innis & Berta, 2016, p.2-22). This allows each individual to develop useful and excellent leadership skills and management strategies to be able to educate and lead an exceptional team (Innis & Berta, 2016, p. 2-22). Although our greatest

Working with others really helps to keep a positive outlook on the change. Working together means you can help each other when something may become more challenging. People often adapt to change better if there is good communication. You may find that you will be able to help support your colleagues if they are finding something challenging and vice versa. It is important to remember that to support and work with colleagues effectively you will need to keep a positive outlook.

Learing new activity can improve own knowledge, skills and understanding, learning activities can improve an individual’s knowledge, skills and understanding by providing us with new ideas , such as something we may have never encountered before. Learning activities also gives the severs users new areas of learning, such as topics or courses that they haven’t encountered before or something that they haven’t previously covered, and courses on things that can make the job easier , or even legally required courses that produce great new areas of learning that allows us to perform our job role , such as manual handling or medication training .it also enables us to apply theories or ideas into practice and discovered if they are successful in doing what we intend them to , which in turn is great in developing ourselves confidence .confidence is often the key in making strides with a difficult individual or even with self improvement and with being confidence it allows us to learn at an easier pace , which also develops our skills into more tangible tools that we understand .reflecting on a situation can improve knowledge , skills and understanding reflecting on a situation can improve on individual greatly by providing personal insight on a subject , which leads to better understanding of a topic , we can reflect on how well we performed and I what way our performance could be improved. By reflecting we can examine how effective our practice is by thinking about people’s reactions to us. About how there may have been other outcomes, and how to reach those outcomes, eliminating the bad paths and highlighting the more positives conclusions in hope of reaching them the next time we are face with the same

Tuckman (1965) proposed that when developing teams, groups proceed through four general stages of development, namely: Forming, storming, norming and performing.

Tuckman’s (1965) Team Development Model; Forming is the first step and includes the process of;

Team building is centered on helping other move through different stage of a group development which helps each other strengthens their relationship within the team and other member’s to understand the roles and responsibilities required. (Bierema, L. 2014) Tuckman’s stages use the forming; storming; norming and performing model for group development. This was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. (Bierema, L. 2014) When it comes to the current team I am linked with, we are currently not involved in any of these stages. Since this chapter, I have brought this suggestion my management so start this process. Prior to me starting in this department, current supervisors would do what they felt was correct which can contradict what the correct

Tuckman's theory focuses on the way in which a team tackles a task from the initial formation of the team through to the completion of the project. Tuckman's theory is particularly relevant to team building challenges as the phases are relevant to the completion of any task undertaken by a team but also the development of a team in the grander scheme.

Bruce W Tuckman (1965) developed a model to describe the differing stages of team development. He gave us a way of interpreting the various stages groups pass through into making an effective team. As you can see from the illustration below, teams go

Management as it relates to the health services realm requires a deep understanding of coordinating the delivery of healthcare. One must be able to utilize frameworks to recognize and develop solutions to challenges within managing healthcare. My desire to become a health services manager (HSM) spawns directly from this concept of identifying an issue and being able to present interventions and approaches to improve the overall quality of life for communities.