1. Team Building Akimi Jones, Drexel Family Medicine Residency,
Sports Medicine Fellowship and
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Programs

2. What is team building anyway?
The Oxford Dictionary defines it as:
the action or process of causing a group of people to work together effectively as a team, especially by means of activities and events designed to increase motivation and promote cooperation.

3. Don’t we already do that?
Teams are inherently formed whenever there are groups of people working on common themes
Friendships can create good teams
People tend to work better when they like what they do
Natural leaders may emerge within the group

4. Why the need for team building?
Teams should be structured
Teams should consist of members who are capable of completing the task
Every task is important
Leadership is part of the team’s structure

5. Building relationships
Multidirectional Communication
Open dialogue
Mutual respect and common courtesy
Focus on the mission
Every team member on the same footing

6. Conflict Resolution Consider everyone’s viewpoints
Calm, non-defensive responses
Readiness to move past the conflict without holding resentments or anger
Seeking compromise
Facing conflict is best resolution

7. Some of our team building activities
Free parks
Picnics

8. Photo scavenger hunts
Meal Preparation

9. What are some of your ideas for team building?