The Open Team

The Open team with external links Open teams improve internal relationships and…

Open team

…also develop planned external links.

© Malcolm Payne 2006, for a lecture to Multiprofessional week at St Christopher’s Hospice, incorporating and updating material from Payne, M. (2000) Teamwork in Multiprofessional Care, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Traditional team development focuses on improving relationships within the team; open team development focuses on the team in its wider service.

Team members reach out and draw in resources; only individuals can relate to other individuals, while being aware of how they represent the team...

…however, in making individual relationships, team members also need to be aware of the group relationships that an individual contact may be involved in.