Improving Healthcare Team Performance

"Great leadership starts with deep personal reflection. This new addition to the leadership library will help create the conditions for sustainable change and transformation. It blends theory with practical how-to tools."
– Hugh MacLeod, CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Improving Healthcare Team Performance is a practical handbook that provides the knowledge, tools, and techniques required to develop a team-based culture within a healthcare environment that will result in exceptional patient care. Most importantly, the authors emphasize that effective teamwork goes far beyond team dynamics—and provide strategies for fulfilling each of the 7 Requirements that differentiate high-performance healthcare teams from the rest.

As healthcare leaders strive to ensure patient safety and a high quality of patient care amid the challenges of shrinking resources, less-than-optimally-functioning teams, and low staff morale, this book recognizes those challenges and offers actionable steps to improve performance by

Depicting clearly what constitutes a high performing, patient-focused team

Offering targeted solutions, including team development exercises complete with facilitator's guides and handouts, tips and recommendations, and a step-by-step approach for effecting necessary change at every level of the organization

Providing a set of online development tools to help the reader quickly and easily apply the knowledge gained

Designed for leaders working in any healthcare environment, Improving Healthcare Team Performance not only provides specifics on how to develop high-functioning teams, but also offers guidance on common healthcare leadership challenges along with the tools to create needed change.