The story about team selection in the medical field is fascinating. Because my leadership has taken place in a closed educational setting, it hadn’t occurred to me that team selection could take place in a broad open environment where members may be unknown to each other. I can recognize that it would be a significant challenge to draw effective people together to form a team like the one you have described. Drawing people together with food and drink while presenting the needs your team required allowed for your team to have shared experience from the beginning and come together with a common understanding of the goals or vision for the team. It seems that your idea for mass recruitment in this way was an effective way to establish the start of a strong team.
I was also struck by the number of different paramedical roles required to make a procedure successful. “I tried to facilitate and connect each paramedical staff knowledge and roles towards the same goal and made the team work more efficiently” (Hasegawa, 2018). This need for specific knowledge and perspective to be shared across the expertise of the team would not happen without effective leadership. The importance of ensuring members understand the role each other plays in the process is underscored when placed in a medical setting.
Thank you for sharing this story. Were you able to recruit your whole team from the initial meeting or did you have to individually recruit members to complete your team?
Ryan
Resources
Hasegawa. H (2018) Learning Activity 1- team effectiveness and leadership. Sourced from https://create.twu.ca/papagena163/2018/10/26/learning-activity-1/
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