Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals. Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy supported by relevant evidence

Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

As care approaches bend toward patient-centeredness and quality care provision, an interdisciplinary approach to care remains a benchmark of quality care provision. Poor coordination between the team members is sometimes an issue and has been implicated in reduced effectiveness and poor outcomes. This interdisciplinary plan aims to build teamwork in healthcare teams in Southwest Hospital’s diabetic clinic as a strategy to resolve poor coordination of care and improve outcomes. The plan seeks to create cohesive teams unified by purpose and can work collaboratively to enhance patient experiences and optimize clinical outcomes.

Objective

The objective is to test the Hackman model of team effectiveness on an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Hackman’s model of fostering team effectiveness postulates that the likelihood of the team working cohesively and effectively depends on five conditions. These conditions are role definition, the presence of direction or purpose, a framework or structure within which the team’s processes or activities are carried out, access to resources, and a coach or a mentor within the team (Cavanaugh et al., 2021). Enabling these conditions within the interdisciplinary team will foster teamwork and enhance their effectiveness in coordinating care for their patients.

Predictions

Interdisciplinary teams bring together healthcare professionals from different cadres within the healthcare system. It is expected that each member of the team understands their role in care provision. They are expected to be responsible and accountable for the team to be effective. The team’s purpose is to provide quality care that optimizes clinical outcomes. This purpose will be communicated to the team. The team members will be expected to work diligently towards optimizing care outcomes. The plan is expected to be generally acceptable to the team members as it doesn’t have many considerations.

Change Theory

Kotter’s change management theory is an example of a change theory that can help interdisciplinary team members buy into the plan. This change theory casts the responsibility of managing change on the organizational leader. This theory defines an 8-step process for implementing changes within an organization. Kotter’s change theory is based on the fact that people tend to resist change. The theory, therefore, outlines steps of tailoring the team members’ psychology toward accepting the change process (Carman et al., 2019). Interdisciplinary team leaders targeted by this plan will employ Kotter’s framework for change management to help the members build an effective healthcare team.

Leadership Strategies

Working with a change model and communicating the provisions of the change to other team members are some of the strategies a leader can employ to promote buy-in for an organizational change process. The team leader will employ these strategies to promote buy-in among the team members. According to Grinerud et al. (2021), leaders communicate and inspire change among organizational members. They bear the responsibility of ensuring that each member is aboard and conforms to the provision of the change process.

Team Collaboration Strategy

Teamwork is an important feature in the collaborative paradigm of healthcare provision. Its significance in synergizing members’ operations and sharing responsibilities underpins its necessity in interdisciplinary teams. Teamwork is centered on the values of cooperation, respect, role interdependence, and collaboration (Schot et al., 2019). To establish effective interdisciplinary teams, team members must work towards teaming up and embracing these values. Fostering teamwork is a joint responsibility of all team members and the team leaders. In this regard, the leader will coordinate the team’s activities and ensure that each member conforms to the change. The leader will also ensure that each professional in the team executes their roles diligently and timely. Each team member is expected to execute their role diligently. They will also be expected to abide by the provisions of the central framework of the team operationalization as set out by the team leaders. These efforts will ensure team cohesion and improve coordination of care processes.

Required Organizational Resources

The effectiveness of an interdisciplinary team is also dependent on the availability of the required resources. Additional staff with expertise in diabetes handling and experience in coordinating healthcare teams will be necessary to address the staffing needs. The available staff will also undergo in-session training on team coordination and