05 Sep Become a Real Team with the Right People
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Description
What is a real team? How do you move past being a random group of people into becoming a real team that works together to achieve a common goal? In academia, you may join or be assigned to an existing team and have very little to say about who is on the team. Is the team bonded, stable and does it have shared accountability and interdependence amongst the members?
In this Team Science Seminar Series event, we will discuss one of the key conditions of the Six Conditions Framework (Real Team) and provide tools and approaches, such as role clarification and role overlap to improve team functioning. This session addresses considerations in selecting team members with a diversity of expertise, styles and backgrounds. We will also provide tools that can create an interactive team launch.
This is the second session of the series. Scroll down to register!
Learning Objectives
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Gain a better understanding of what a “real team” means.
- Identify three different considerations when assembling a team.
- Utilize a role clarity tool to improve team functioning.
- Create a team launch using three common objectives.
About the Speakers
Brenda K. Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics in the University of Washington (UW) School of Nursing and co-lead of the ITHS Team Science Module. Dr. Zierler conducts interdisciplinary research that advances the fields of interprofessional collaborative practice, team science, implementation science, and quality improvement to improve team and patient outcomes. Dr. Zierler teaches Team Science and Leadership in the PhD program and Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Informatics in the undergraduate nursing program. Her primary appointment is in the UW School of Nursing but she holds three adjunct appointments – two in the UW School of Medicine (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery & Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education) and one in the UW School of Public Health (Department of Health Systems and Population Health).
Jennifer Sprecher is Director of Strategy Development and Deployment with the School of Nursing. Ms. Sprecher works with organizations to achieve excellence through Strategy development, Lean Project Management, balanced scorecards, change management, benchmarking, team problem solving, team and leadership coaching.
Ms. Sprecher is a strong team facilitator, called upon to facilitate high-level teams where interaction and reaching objectives are critical. Sample facilitations include strategic planning, building collaborations, designing and developing new services, products and processes, implementing process improvements, implementing research studies and creating new research centers. She has worked extensively in the past few years within the arena of team science and applying team concepts to innovative development and research teams.
Before the UW School of Nursing, Ms. Sprecher focused exclusively on health research in the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, also within the University of WA. Prior to the UW, she spent 7 years as Executive Director of the Washington State Quality Award (WSQA), a Baldrige-based non-profit organization. With a background in Industrial Engineering, Ms. Sprecher has been working with process improvement for over 25 years using continuous process improvement methods including Lean, Lean-Sigma, Plan Do Check Act and 6S (5S workplace organization combined with Safety) and Total Quality Management. Ms. Sprecher has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s of Science in Management Systems, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an International Coaching Federation ACC certified Leadership Coach.
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