Leading Teams in Health and Social Care

Leading Teams in Health
and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Role of leadership in leading teams.................................................................................................1
Role and importance of leadership when leading teams within the Health and Social Service
Care Environment...................................................................................................................1
Value of using theoretical models....................................................................................................2
Analysis of theoretical models...............................................................................................3
Healthcare leadership model..................................................................................................5
Leadership styles....................................................................................................................5
The stages of team development and plan to motivate team members to achieve objectives.........6
Tuckman’s Team Development Model..................................................................................6
Nine Belbin Team Roles........................................................................................................7
Motivation..............................................................................................................................9
Mayo’s Motivation Theory.....................................................................................................9
Maslow's need Hierarchy theory............................................................................................9
Recommendations for open communication to support team development..................................10
Potential barriers to communication:....................................................................................10
Examples to conflict resolution approach:...........................................................................11
Expectation of staff with 6 C's:............................................................................................11
Report summary and conclusion....................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is basically an art of motivating and directing other people in order to guide them
to act toward achievement of common goals thus, plays a vital role in team formation and
directing members to meet overall organisational goals and needs in an effective manner (Dimas,
Renato and Rebelo, 2016). The current assignment is based on Hannah who started working as a
nursery nurse and later on decided to work as social care after witnessing the care and
compassion in health care filed. Apart from this, Hannah is now a part of team development and
also oversees building of new care support thus, needs to get better understanding about
management and leadership theories.
Therefore, the main aim of current investigation comprises of developing and setting out
better understanding about leadership and team management theories. Further, the main purpose
and objective of current investigation comprises of evaluating about the main roles of leadership
in leading effective team development along with facilitating and leading out an effective
communication and motivation for employees and team members to effective manage a team in
order to boost their performance and efficiency level. Further, emphasis on working with CQC
and local authorities is also lead out along with meeting compliments and developing effective
training strategy for health care workers.
Role of leadership in leading teams
Role and importance of leadership when leading teams within the Health and Social Service Care
Environment
Leadership is defined as a process of encouraging and motivating individual and group
towards achieving a common goal or objective. In simple terms leadership involves directing
colleagues, individual and workers to meet strategic objectives of organisation for the benefit of
company and customers (Kelly, 2018). Leader is an individual who commands a group or
individuals towards accomplishing common objective. Leader inspires and motivate with
dedication and passion which is positive characteristics of a leader. While if it is talked about
negative characteristic a leader, lacks of accountability and inefficient ability to delegate are
some of the negative characteristics of a leader. According to the analysis of present case study it
has been identified that Hannah is required to involve in the process of designing and planning a
new facility in order to provide efficient support to 30 individual with dementia in a specialist
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