TeamHealth360 - Boosting Healthy Team Communication to Support New Communities of Health

Taking colleagues on a journey with you can create a bond and communicate values that go way beyond the subject matter of a lecture or workshop. Who you really are, what you have learned along the way and how you have grown is key in gaining a following. Be real and open and tell your story to become a stronger leader in health care and inspire others.

12 rules to keep on top of complex issues by pulling together streams of information and allow things to converge rather than get out of hand. In health care there are so many silos and border lines of responsibility that allow small bits of vital information to be lost that inform and help the "system" work. Patients and colleagues all depend on the detail as well as big picture thinking. Complex issues become more complex when loose ends are lost and levels of responsibility get blurred.

Balancing traits provides a chance to bring friend a great leadership style for collaboration especially when empathy and connection mixed with a modest and welcoming personality. Communities and colleagues and our patients need this inclusive understanding to feel safe to contribute and be heard.

What can we learn from social media ? How can it inform health care professionals as well as adding value to posts by others. Transforming health messaging and motivational positive messaging. Working inter-professionally is now vital to help patients navigate their care and offer options that help them achieve the best outcome they can. Shortening the patient journey helps save money but more importantly saves a patient suffering more than necessary. Patients reaching a dead end due to poor interprofessional working leaves them helpless and lost. This cannot be allowed to happen.

What do your audience want from their time spent with you? A clear takeaway message? Knowing your limits....and hearing questions and answering them or even returning the questions to gain clarity.

Sharing and learning with others is a key to development and taking your health professional leadership role forwards. Challenging others and asking questions whilst making others feel comfortable and open is also a key skill beyond the facts and knowledge being imparted.

Example of assessing Sciatica and communication with your patient. Nice Guidelines informed process and management is incorporated into this approach. Adapting tests and applying knowledge with and evidence base is Leadership at the heart of health professionals care delivery. Expressing what you do and more importantly think is key to working inter-professionally and and making a greater impact on patient wellbeing and progress. Silos of care reduce options for patients and ultimately could impact adversely on their care pathways.

A mix of personality types brings different qualities to a team of health professionals. Personalities can clash or be put to good use depending on how people are managed and valued. Making use of these traits can produce better overall outcomes by playing to peoples strengths. Interprofessional working means this area of leadership personality has to also overcome barriers as well as silos of professional style.

Coaching for health professionals can be even more useful when your coach has experience working in the healthcare field. Sharing experiences and acting as a role model is useful to provide real life examples and share challenges that were pivotal in developing the coach. Challenges occur in differing and similar ways between professionals and professions. Avoiding silos is key.

What process would help you develop most effectively in your health professional leadership journey? How does coaching vary from mentoring ? Why is reflection time so important? Guidance or a sounding board ? Coaching and mentoring can be mixed in differing ways to suit the individual. Covid19 2020 has made a huge difference to the need for interprofessional working and collaboration. Upping your communication and leadership skills has become key to reaching the community and delivering even more engaged healthcare that so many need.