Communication to help our patients and other

communication to help our patients and other
departments. We know that our team works
hard and we appreciate and value each one of
them, so we show them our gratitude by having
small event around the office such as lunches
catered in, raffles for small prizes and casual
Fridays. Small gestures can go along way and
this creates an effective team that keeps
patients and the company striving.
In conclusion, teamwork is an essential part of organizations around the world and
creating teams is helping them become more competitive and productive. A successful team has
a strong leader that cascades pertinent information to their team, keeps active communication,
and ensures that goal deadlines are met in a timely manner. Accepting each member’s strengths
and weaknesses will help determine where that team member fits in best and use their strengths
to full capacity. A diverse team that is important for wider thinking and learning from each
other’s experiences. And having open communication will reduce any misunderstandings or
confusion. Using the Tuckman’s stage theory of Forming, Storming, Norming, performing and
adjourning will help a team building themselves from beginning to end and will to facilitate
phases of team development. With any team there is always added stress to the members
involved in them and do the best job possible but it should not always be about work, therefore,

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we do small events to help our team feel appreciated by providing lunches, little raffles and
casual Fridays. Teamwork in a workplace is not only critical but also pivotal to the success of
the organization.
References
Chad Lin, Craig Standing & Ying-Chieh Liu (2008) A model to develop effective virtual teams

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