Personal & Professional Growth: Evaluating Teamwork in Healthcare

This report explores the crucial aspects of personal and professional development, emphasizing the significance of teamwork within the health and social care sector. It evaluates the effectiveness of personal contributions, including skills, knowledge, communication, and reflective practice, while also addressing the limitations of individual work roles and their impact on collaborative efforts. The report analyzes how one's role can minimize barriers to effective teamwork, such as poor communication and unclear goals, and suggests improvements to enhance personal contributions to a team's collective effectiveness. The importance of communication skills and active listening is highlighted as essential for achieving team objectives and fostering a smooth working environment. References to relevant literature support the analysis and recommendations provided in the report.

Personal and Professional
Development
Task 4

Introduction
Increase in core competencies according to objectives which
determines a way to can be stated as a personal development.
Professional development is related to the essentials of the
profession, so a person has to increase essentials core skills which
helps in their profession.
A personal development plan can helps employee's to increase their
core values which helps in their qualitative work. Team working is a
need in health and social care sector to increase the effectiveness of
the work.

Evaluate the effectiveness of
personal contributions
The contribution when working with others in health and social
care practice can be personal and professional. The personal
contribution of a professional in the field can be:
 Skills
 Knowledge
 Ability to understand effectively
 communicate with efficiency
 Reflective practice

Explain how the limits of own work
role impacts on work with others
The limitations of own work roles can impact the working with
others.
In the work place teams have to work together and working
limitations of a person can affect the efficiency of the whole team.
The objective of the team should be clearly stated in order to have a
smooth working without any disruptions.
The limitations of a person hamper the efficiency of all the other
members as it slows down the process further.
The impact of authority can also be seen on the work of the others as
it might restrict them to perform a task.

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The seniors having authority over the subordinates may abuse the
power and disrupt the working while exploiting the powers for
own use.
On other hand the seniors might not have the authority to permit
the activity which might result in further stopping the process.
The support of the team members is crucial to perform in the team
and work together.
The members might also play informal roles in the organisation
which can affect the performance in the organisation.

Analyse own role in minimising
barriers to effective teamwork
In an organisation, effective team work is the key to successful
working. The efficiency and productivity can only be increased
through removing the barriers in the working of the team. The
barriers present are:
 Poor communication
 Unclear goals
 Managerial involvement
 Ego

How to improve personal
contributions to the collective
effectiveness of a team
Personal contribution are the non concessional contributions so that
they can choose to make the after tax income. It is what you do that
will make a effective group into completing their objectives. The
team members have to do the work with the effectiveness as well as
capacity of a team so that they can accomplish the goals and
objectives which is administered by an authorised personnel. The
team members have to build a good communication skills so that
they can do their work smoothly. The workers having a ability to
listen as well as speak carefully so that they can attain the maximum
value in any team work and that can involve a wide range of skills.

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