Building High-Performance Teams

Leading and Building High Performance Teams

The high performance organisation is a community of hundreds of disparate groups of people working in teams, throughout its structures and across its geography. For an interesting biological imagery, imagine looking through a microscope at an organisms cell structure and observing the countless amoebic movements, energy and growth formations which then split away and dissolve within the mass, j...

Case study: building high performance teams.

Building Pay Environments to Facilitate High-performance Teams

Because of the complexity of quality improvement, teamwork and collaboration are essential to making quality initiatives successful. To be credible, quality initiatives as well as employee teams must generate measurable, meaningful results to demonstrate that the time and energy expended is worth the effort. Teams must progress beyond the process and training elements of quality to attain organ...

Building high functioning clinical teams through quality improvement initiatives.

BACKGROUND Team-based care has consistently been associated with improved clinical outcomes. However, strategies for promoting and sustaining a team-based approach in family medicine practice are more elusive. METHODS We conducted a longitudinal time series cohort study of 30 primary care providers in seven practices to assess the sequential addition of three different chronic disease managem...

Building Effective Teams

Teams of agents can be made more effective by the introduction of team assistants to accomplish specific tasks. Team assistants may be real or virtual and may be first class team members or only team adjuncts. For example, a team assistant may be created as a virtual, first class team member to serve as team manager to coordinate the actions of team members. The need for a team assistant might ...