Team-Building
Creating and providing upkeep for team cohesion and continuity can be a tricky thing in the modern workplace. There are a number of things that must be dealt with. There are also a number of factors that contribute to teams becoming shaky or even dysfunctional. While choosing the overall topic of team-building can lead to the casting of a very wide net in terms of overall topics, this report shall focus on a few things in particular. They will include the betterment of overall management practices, the elements that are inherent to a good team environment, the avoidance of conflicts before they start, ways to improve communication and strategies that can be used to avoid conflicts in general. While creating and upholding proper team dynamics is not rocket science, there are some important tactics and ideas that should be utilized and employed and not everyone knows (or cares to know) what those things are.
Analysis
The assignment being completed with this report gives a basic set of parameters. Essentially, the author is to act as a consultant that is reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a healthcare corporation. While not obvious to some, the fact that this is a healthcare corporation ups the stakes significantly when it comes to the efficacy, ethics and motives of the people involved. Most for-profit businesses are focused on the bottom line. While there are no huge ethical quandaries for most of those businesses, there are some fields that are inherently chaotic and potentially troublesome when it comes to what business...
Indeed, if a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) wants to up his hourly rate a bit, there is not really anyone endangered by that and the market (and his performance) will dictate if that rate will stick. However, healthcare is a whole different story because quality of life and, sometimes, life as its exists can hang in the balance. Much the same thing pertains to industries like those that involve food, energy and other necessities. Beyond that, healthcare is perceived by many to be a fundamental human right. As such, decisions that surround the healthcare industry are obviously going to be harder and more important to properly manage than with other industries where the implications are not nearly as massive (SCU, 2016).
Even so, the general facets of team-building and managing/avoiding conflict are not all that different. The one big difference is that there are real people with real lives that are on the end of the proverbial chain and are thus being affected by the actions or inactions that are brought about by how well a team does or does not work together. As suggested by the assignment, barriers can emerge when it comes to completing work and working together. Those barriers should be identified and eliminated as much as is reasonable or possible when they are discovered. A good tip to help foster and propagate this desired end is to make it clear that there is an "open door" policy with management and that there should be a free flow of communication among all team members. If one or more thing is hindering that, people…
