Teamwork and Collaborative Leadership Lesson
This lesson is comprised of readings, personal reflection activities and a video. It will take approximately 1.5 hours to complete.
16. SIT Tool
The first tool, SIT, describes essential characteristics of team functioning (22). Without them, team members cannot contribute positively to team functioning. The three elements of SIT are:
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Safety
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Inclusion
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Trust
Trust is essential for people who work together. This is particularly true in healthcare. When you lose trust in another person, safety and inclusion are also lost. So trust is the essential foundation to any healthy working relationship. Teams need to constantly be gauging their own, and each others' sense of safety, inclusion, and trust. If either safety or inclusion are diminished, then return to establishing trust with your team. These three characteristics are mutually dependent and all three need your attention when working with other people.
