What is teamwork and what are the processes in achieving it.

1. THE NATURE OF DYNAMIC TEAMSHIP
• Characteristics of Teamwork
• Teamwork Processes
• Interprofessional Teamwork

2. CHARACTERISTICS OF TEAM DYNAMICS
1. Good communication
2. Individual talent
3. Team sense of belonging
4. Strong leadership
5. Clear structure
6. Achievable goals
7. Feedback
8. Positive attitude
9. Solution – focused teams

3. 1. Good communication.
- Each member of the team should be able to communicate efficiently and
openly with other members of the team. Interpersonal skills are as useful as
writing skills in this context, as flexible teams are expected to switch between
collaborating online and off-.
2. Individual talent.
- Each member should bring their own experience, ambition, and specialist
skills to the table, particularly when working on a high-performance team.
Unique talent drive overall performance and help to cement a member’s place
place within the group.

4. 3. Team sense of belonging
- Understanding where you fit into wider team and how your skills
interact with those of others will help create social bonds and build
trust and order within the group.
4. Strong leadership
- there’s a big difference between managers and leaders. The person
in charge should be able to inspire their team, communicate the
company’s vision, and encourage individuals toward a shared goal.

5. 5. Clear structure
- A simple and well-understood hierarchy is an important feature of
effective teamwork. Knowing the structure of the team helps with
decision-making and conflict resolution.
6. Achievable goals
- Unrealistic targets can be like kryptonite to great teamwork. If
people sense that success is impossible, enthusiasm for the work
can fall by the wayside. When negative feelings are shared by
teammates, they can become compounded, causing collaboration
to suffer.

6. 7. Feedback
- Team needs feedback to learn and grow, and leaders who rarely offer it can
unwittingly foster a competitive workplace environment in which teamwork
may struggle to flourish.
8. Positive attitude
- Confidence is infectious – as long as there’s not too much of it – and a positive
outlook can quickly spread throughout the team. Great teamwork comes
about when leaders and workers believe in the mission of the business and
want to see it succeed.
9. Solution – focused teams
- Nobody can predict the future, but great teamwork allow groups to adapt to
challenging new conditions, and to remain focused on solutions rather than
dwelling on problems.

7. TEAMWORK PROCESSES
Teamwork processes are interpersonal activities between team members
that contribute to task accomplishment but do not directly involve task
accomplishment itself.
Teamwork processes are a summation of transition processes, action
processes, and interpersonal processes.
Transition processes: teamwork activities based on preparation for
future activities.
Action processes: paying attention to goal-related information
and making sure those goals are reached.
Interpersonal processes: manner in which team members manage
their relationships throughout the action and transition processes.

8. INTER PROFESSIONAL TEAMWORK
• refers to a type of collaboration which involves professionals working closely
together collectively and interdependently. Contrary to other forms of
collaborative work, where contributions are parallel or sequential,
interprofessionalism implies a high level of communication, mutual
planning, collective decisions and shared responsibilities. To facilitate a
comprehensive approach to patients' problems, each professional must take
everyone's contribution into consideration

9. 3 “LOGICS” OF INETERPROFESSIONAL TEAMWORK
1. Assimilation
- showed that in the context of the workplace, professional boundaries may change or even
disappear to accommodate organisational imperatives.
2. Segregation
- As opposed to assimilation, the logic of segregation points to the division of professional roles
and the establishment of professional boundaries. Instead of being blurred and overridden, the
experience of interprofessional teamwork actively encouraged boundaries between professions.
Clear professional boundaries and roles were important to make individuals feel secure in their
work, set limits and avoid “professional generalisation”.
3. Integration
- the complementarity of the professional roles, how they enhance or strengthen each other.

10. “ALONE WE CAN DO SO
LITTLE; TOGETHER WE
CAN DO SO MUCH”