TEAM BUILDING: PART 2 OF 3: Boosting team engagement with storytelling methods
- Craig, Maxine
•This article has been double-blind peer reviewed
Team members' emotional wellbeing plays a significant role in the efficacy of team performance. Stories and narratives can help teams bond and work to shared goals
Abstract
Boosting team engagement with storytelling methods. This three-part series on team building discusses the research evidence on creating and maintaining effective teams and how to apply it to practice.
Part 1 looked at team development and strategy and how to balance task, individual and team. This second article examines more deeply the vital work of relationship building and maintenance as part of team development. In particular, it focuses on storytelling in everyday leadership practice and how it can help leaders improve how they connect with, and through, their teams. It considers how research from the non-clinical fields of organisation development, human resources and improvement can support the practice of building healthcare teams and the delivery of good care.