Team Dynamics

With these tools of good leadership, team training and development, excellent communication, and a good salary with benefits, then the expectation of participation and positive feedback should be the norm. A good positive dynamic will develop, and the team will work to support itself. Eventually, a team like this one could become a work-family that could be deployed for specialty care (such as head bleeds and gunshot wounds) as the institution needs it to be deployed. This is provided that this kind of work-family already vetted its concerns and could adapt to those needs. These work-families rely less on the leader to hold everyone accountable and allows the unit to relax together and venture off into creative endeavors for the future. That article is for another time.

Dr. Bitetto is chief for the section of Hospital Medicine at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pa.