Trust in Team Collaboration Essay

Trust in Team Collaboration

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Assignment Context

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain strategies for effective interprofessional teamwork and collaboration in health care delivery.
  • Identify leadership behaviors that build trust within teams.
  • Identify leadership behaviors that undermine trust within teams.
  • Describe strategies team members can use to build trust among one another.
• Competency 2: Analyze the implications of working with interprofessional teams in multi–faceted healthcare settings.
  • Explain the consequences of a team that does not trust its leader in terms of patient safety.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations for a nursing professional.
  • Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional.

Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, write 3–4 pages in which you examine factors that build team success.

Overview

Perhaps, the best predictor of team success is its clarity of purpose and the team’s commitment to achieving it. To support that purpose, a team needs a process that moves smoothly from vision and mission to goals and tasks in order to achieve the desired outcomes. The foundation of both purpose and process is leadership.

Any form of collaboration is an inherently human process. The culture of an organization can dramatically affect team efficacy and performance. The glue that holds teams together is trust. Three factors can help build trust in collaborative environments: performance and competence, integrity, and concern for the well–being of others.

Preparation

Search the Capella library for scholarly articles on leadership styles and qualities of effective team leaders. These articles may or may not also discuss the importance of trust within collaborative teams.

Requirements

Examine two critical components for interprofessional team success: leadership and trust. Address the following:

• Identify at least three leadership behaviors that build trust within a team.
• Identify at least three leadership behaviors that undermine trust within a team.
• Explain the consequences of a team that does not trust its leader in terms of patient safety.
• Describe strategies team members can use to build trust among one another in terms of skill, knowledge, and responsibility.
• Describe principles of effective interprofessional team leadership. In other words, what skills and qualities should a good team leader possess? Is there a difference between being a good leader and being an effective leader?

Your completed assignment should be 3–4 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Support your statements and opinions with references to and citations from at least 3 scholarly or professional resources. Be sure to follow APA guidelines for format and style. In addition:

• Include a title page and reference page.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Double–space.

Refer to the Trust in Team Collaboration Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

Note:Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.