Application of Driscoll's Model

Running head: APPLICATION OF DRISCOLL’S MODEL
APPLICATION OF DRISCOLL’S MODEL
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What:
During the time of placement, I got the opportunity of working with a number of my
classmates as a team for developing health promotion plan on the management of diabetes
among people of the communities. I was quite excited for the project and waiting to work
with my friends. However, our professor allocated the team members randomly and I was
allocated in a team where I was not acquainted with the other members. The professor chose
me as the leader for which I was happy initially. As the days passed, it gradually became
difficult for me to manage the members. The deadline was very near but nice of the members
showed any seriousness in their work. I summoned everyone in the meeting and told him or
her to begin the work. They were trying to suggest me many options but I cut them short
starting that there was no time to listen to all of them. I decided to develop a health education
session in the community about diabetes and discussed the plan with them. They suggested
me driver other tactics but if did not pay any attention to them and strictly told them to follow
my path. I asked them to develop the pitch, the presentation slides, the arrangement of centre
where the sessions would be held and many others. However, when I tried to supervise the
things, I noticed that mistakenly two people have done the presentation whereas no one has
completed the presentation. There was duplication of tasks and each of them blamed each
other. There were conflicts and who clashes among the members were many of them tried to
withdraw themselves from teamwork. Although, we implemented the eviction session, but we
did not score good marks as the pressure found a number of flaws in the approach.
I was quite embarrassed in front of the professor, as I could not meet up his
expectations to lead the team successfully. Moreover, I was also quite confused about why
the health education plan did not bring complete success in the health promotion program. I
felt that the team mates were not at all able to work comfortably in the team and that there
were also not happy with my leadership. At one time, I felt so upset that I thought I would be

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never able to with successfully in a team. However, I tried to control my emotions and
wanted to reflect on the incidences to evaluate what was the the bad and the good part of the
incidences.
So what:
The bad part was that the teamwork entirely failed and even the healthcare promotion
program did not work well. On close evaluation, it was noted that the developing a team
requires to follow a number of steps as that started by Tuckman. As per Tuckman, team
development occurs through stage forming when members are not aware of each other but
come together to work as a team (Casimiro et al. 2015). This is then followed by storming
where conflicts arise but successful resolution to this results in morning when members
becomes stabilise and return harmonious relationship among each other. This is then
followed by performing when members written collaboratively to achieve the goal (Rosen et
al. 2018). Then adjourning phase takes up where after achievement of the goals, members
disperse. While developing our team, we did not file the theory and even did not allow time
to each other to allow completion of each stage successfully (Gafa et al. 2018). The team was
formed in a haphazard manner and none of the members was found to be consistent with each
other. The team work with did not take place efficiently. On the other hand, I realised the
cause of failure of the health promotion program. The Ottawa charter advises professionals to
follow five steps like building effective policy, strengthening community actions, building
supportive actions, developing individual skills and reorienting healthcare services
(Thompson et al. 2018). However, our initiatives did not cover all the five domains and
health education session only helped in making the community members feels emptied and
developing individual skills. Hence, it was half hearted. The only good part was that it helped
us realize we have not developed transiting skills and good health promotion knowledge and
that we needed to work on them.