Introduction

Leading teams is not an academic exercise. At some point in your career, it is likely that you will lead a team. You may even be fortunate enough to be able to choose one. In any case, being able to share your vision or plans through a presentation is highly likely, and is a skill worth developing.

Overview

In this assessment, you will answer the questions presented for a committee kickoff meeting in which you describe your leadership role, team composition, and how to foster collaboration.

Scenario

Imagine that Lynette follows up with you in an e-mail shortly after reading your views on leadership and collaboration.

E-mail From Lynette

Hi,

Thanks for sending me your thoughts on the diversity issue at the Lakeland Clinic. The next step is for you to select a team of professionals who can help you in this project and explain an introduction of the project for a first meeting with them.

I want you to describe an experience to serve as a brief, but substantive introduction for the first meeting with a group of four members who will participate on the committee tasked with addressing the diversity issue.

The presentation should be approximately 5 minutes (use as many slides as required with detailed speaker's notes) so I can understand your approach. Not a lot of time or space, so keep things pretty high level. Do the following:

1. Briefly outline the project goals and highlight 2-3 of the initial priorities to be addressed by the group.
2. Explain the composition of your ideal team and why you chose them. (Note that you will not know the exact personnel yet, but assume we will recruit the people with the desired qualities and characteristics that you outline in the presentation.) Provide brief description of the type of professionals you believe can help define the problem and ultimately make recommendations on how to address it. You will want the group to be diverse and with each member being able to provide a unique perspective.
3. Explain your role and describe how the committee will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration.
   • Describe how the group will communicate. Include how and when they will meet.
   • Describe how ideas will be shared and decisions made.
   • Describe roles, group function, and structure.

Thanks,

Lynette

Instructions