Facilitators to Effective Team Performance

This document discusses the facilitators of effective team performance, including strong and reliable leadership, diversity, effective communication, skilled conflict management, and adaptability. It emphasizes the importance of these factors in promoting excellent team performance and provides examples and strategies for implementing them. The document also highlights the impact of cultural diversity and effective communication on team performance.

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Facilitators to Effective Team Performance
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Facilitators to Effective Team Performance
Facilitator of an effective team performance includes strong and reliable leadership,
diversity, effective communication, skilled conflict management and ability to adapt. Effective
leadership is a fundamental aspect of effective team performance. A leader should neither
provide much nor less authority to the team. The leader should be available and approachable.
The leader should also listen to the grievances of the team members and value their output.
Furthermore, effective leadership involves the ability to appreciate individual contributions and
quickly deal with problems as they arise among the group members.
Even though the team members may have defined roles and responsibilities, flexibility is
a significant facilitator of effective team performance. It is vital for the team members to
acknowledge the fact that tasks and roles are not rigid. The team members who are willing to
cross their positions and work collaboratively with their colleagues are likely to promote
effective team performance when compared to group members who are rigid in their area of
specialization.
Diversity is also a significant facilitator of effective group performance. The members of the
team should empress diversity in thoughts, skills, and experience (Akron, Feinblit, Hareli &
Tzafrir, 2016). Impressing diversity among the tea members generates new and inventive
strategies for completion of tasks assigned. A team is always effective when it impresses new
solutions to the available problems.

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The graph below illustrates the impact of cultural diversity on performance.
Retrieved from: (Tröster, Mehra, & van Knippenberg, 2014).
Effective communication also plays a significant role in promoting excellent team
performance (Channon, Davis, Goode, & May, 2017). Interaction among the team members and
their leaders call for effective communication. Communication should be made quick and
friendly to avoid differences within the organization.
Lastly, skilled conflict management plays a significant role in promoting excellent team
performance. Conflict should not be discouraged within the team members as it is the origin of
new and innovative ideas. However, the leader of the group should ensure the conflict level
maintains individual respect among the team members.
From an individual perspective, including the patient as a team member is fundamental. The
strategies set in the group should aim at meeting the patients’ preferences (Lamb, et, al., 2013).

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Patients’ inclusion is fundamental as their response plays a vital role in identifying areas that
need development.
I will solve team conflict by compromising the ideas from the conflicting parties
(Wallensteen, 2018). This will make both parties to feel appreciated in decision making. The
ideas of the conflicting parties can be combined to form a more useful solution.
A student nurse can be supported in a diversity of ways. Firstly, including members who
impress diversity will ensure the student to be culturally competent in the nursing practice.
Additionally, the student will be able to interact with the patient who is the group member thus
developing patient engagement skills. Furthermore, the student will be able to build an effective
patient-nurse relationship.
Even though all the characteristics of a team are significant, effective communication is
the most important characteristic. Members who empress effective communication maintain
harmony within their discussions thus leading to excellent group performance. Effective
communication also eases the work of the leader. Furthermore, collaboration arises from
effective communication which leads to the development of new and innovative ideas.

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The figure below illustrates the advantageous impacts of effective communication among
the team members.
Retrieved from: (Heathfield, 2019).

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Heathfield, S. (2019). Teams that get these factors right experience success [online]. Retrieved
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Lamb, B. W., Taylor, C., Lamb, J. N., Strickland, S. L., Vincent, C., Green, J. S. A., & Sevdalis,
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Wallensteen, P. (2018). Understanding conflict resolution. SAGE Publications Limited.