From Management to Leadership: Strategies for Transforming Health, 3rd Edition

Creating Teams

Creating and developing high-performance teams is another key process that today’s leaders must master in order to be effective. “Teams make sense in today’s world for many reasons: the increasing complexity of our work; the changing values of the workforce; the increasing need for immediate organizational response to difficult external marketplace changes and internal challenges; and our desire to create a healthy, satisfying workplace for employees” (Manion, 1997, p. 31). Exemplary leaders understand the concept of the team and determine when a team can do a better job than an individual. Even more important, effective leaders have the skills to facilitate a team’s development. “Health care is a team sport, but all too often ...