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The question was posted by Helen on 20/05/2020 09:13:34

Hi all,
I am wanting my work teams to be self directing, able to cover their own rotas, sick and annual leave, and allocating daily tasks. This is a very different model to the way they currently work - individuals taking direction from a manager or registered nurse.
I would appreciate your guidance on which modules to include to build self directed work teams?
Many thanks, Helen


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Hi Helen

I functioned with a team model for 10 years in my last organization and also created a team culture. For example, in that context you would never hear the word committee. To us committee was a bad word. :) We defined the two this way, a committees is a group of people that get together to make decisions about work that other people will do and a team were groups of people who get together to make decisions about work that they will do. The teams pretty much made all the decisions concerning the team, the work, submitted annual budgets, goals etc.

The model is based on the book The Performance Factor which is structured on six principles of team work. Very simple and straight forward to implement, the guy that replaced me after I left called me six months later to talk about the structure and commented that the place pretty much ran itself.

I have done training on the six principles and used to take our teams through it every year. And having studied leadership and team extensively for many years this is the best material I have used.

If you DM me I can send you a tool to help structure the team or if you want to briefly discuss we can get on a Zoom meeting. [email protected],

All the best.
Paul
20/05/2020Paul
Reinventing organisations illustrated version buurzorg case study. All about self directed teams. Pat
20/05/2020Pat


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