Using reflexivity to optimise teamwork Author : Dr Nicky Eddison, Catherine McKeown, and Dr Ros Leslie Trust : RWT Sub-optimal functioning within a team can have serious consequences on task outcomes, in healthcare this can impact service users. It can also impact individual health and wellbeing, staff progression, job satisfaction and attrition rates. The ability to examine one’s feelings, reactions, and motives and how these influence what one does and thinks is known as reflexivity1. When applied to the context of a team, it is the extent to which teams take the time to stop and reflect together on what they are trying to achieve and the mechanisms of how they achieve their aims. This is typically an area that teams neglect. They do so at their peril.
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