INSPIRING CHANGE SYSTEMS, POLICY & LEADERSHIP
How Leader ship Team Development is Helping the Univer sit y of Michigan Center for Inter profes sional Education “ Walk The Walk” of B uilding B et ter Teams
“We are fortunate to have an incredible team of IPE leaders who come from so many different parts of our university,” shared Rajesh Mangrulkar, M.D., director of the Center for Interprofessional Education. “We made a deliberate decision to make this coaching investment in their individual development, but more importantly, to help us do our work together as a team. How can we be in the business of developing teams in health and health care, if we don’t walk the walk ourselves?”
Jessica Bixby, MFA (Marketing Communications Specialist, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education)
The team met regularly throughout the 2022-23 academic year, culminating in a graduation event in August. Participants shared their autobiographies, an exercise in holding space to speak, share, and lead — something that all leaders must do but few are trained to do well. The practices are now being integrated into C-IPE’s everyday work.
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eamwork and building better teams are at the center of everything the Center for Interprofessional Education (C-IPE) stands for. Having leaders who are equipped to build and nurture teams is key to building successful teams, so the C-IPE decided it was time to invest in what they have long focused on. To support this, C-IPE partnered with The Marteney Group to guide the leadership team, consisting of the C-IPE team and faculty co-chairs of their committees and strategic work groups that support the Center’s strategic plan. Their work is highly interconnected, so bringing them together as a team of leaders was critical in maintaining a unified mission. There was intentionality around the concept of the “leadership team” with both the mission in mind but also the ways in which those leaders could lean on one another and help each other with their work.
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