Reflection on Leadership and Communication in IPE Team

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Introduction:
The main purpose of the report is to analytically reflect on experiences related to working
within the IPE team. The report will give idea about the leadership quality within the team and
its role in promoting team development. The report will also give insight into the communication
strategies between the team that helped to improve care plan of the patient. The IPE workshop
was about stroke and depression and the key activities for the workshop was about meeting the
case study client Dan, identifying organizations to find support to Dan, develop appropriate care
plan for Dan and evaluate patient centred care via wiki. The IPE team had 10 students. Out of
these, six were nursing students who were in the third year and semester 6 conversion students.
Other members included me, a medical imaging staff and an OT staff. The OT was in his fourth
year and the medical imaging was in the 3rd year semester 1.
Leadership traits of two team members:
Two members of the team who have been identified as leaders in the team include Stefan
(OT) and Chou (nurse). Both had different leadership trait. Stefan has been found to be have the
leadership trait of commitment and innovation. This can be said because she was showing full
interest in all the activities of the workshop and responding well throughout the activities. This is
understood from her response throughout the workshop. She was the most active member of the
team who was self-confident and self-aware regarding important elements of multi-professional
health care team. Her attitude is reflective of leadership trait of commitment and Giddens (2018)
argues that effective leaders display commitment and alignment around shared organizational
vision. Stefan revealed commitment around shared goal of completing week 1 activities with the
group. During the activity 2 related to effective team work, her response revealed she has good

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awareness about factors that affects team functioning. During the activity 3 activity for week 1
too, her response revealed that she had good understanding about interaction between
professional ethics and rights of patients. Hence, her knowledge related to effective relationship
building skill and the interest in identifying innovative strategies to influence care outcomes is a
positive aspects of her leadership skills.
The other member Chou is found to share leadership within the team as he was found to
be a good communicator. His communication style during activity 2 related to discussion of
Dan’s care plan was unlike any other members. This is said because while giving response, he
was addressing to everyone. In addition, his communication style demonstrated that he favoured
getting more idea from his team members instead of communicating his beliefs and opinion to
others. Boies, Fiset and Gill (2015) supports that communication styles of a leader has direct
impact on team outcomes. Effective leaders focus on taking feedback from team during
communication to ensure that team goal is achieved. Similar type of communication style was
displayed by Chou too.
Evaluation of leadership quality and its impact on team development:
Leadership plays a vital in affecting team performance and accelerated team performance
is achieved when leaders create a positive vibes within the team and empower people at their
greatest potential. Such leaders are always prepared to challenge any issues with confidence.
Transformational and inspirational leadership displays such leadership qualities and they
motivate employees to take greater responsibility for the work (Scott et al., 2018). This
leadership quality was displayed by Chou too. By commending his team members for their
response to Dan’s case scenario and motivating them to find more idea for the betterment of