ABSTRACT
The healthcare industry is inadvertently a teamwork industry – and yet – little time is devoted to improving teamwork on the field. As a response to this issue, team development intervention (TDI) tools have flourished. Findings suggest the capability for TDIs to better team competencies, and potentially mitigate prominent healthcare problems. However, team coaching has been excluded as a potential TDI for healthcare. For this reason, we seek to 1) discuss existing team coaching models, integrating findings across the literature, 2) highlight the advantages of Hackman and Wageman (2005)’s model over others, 3) display its empirically-corroborated propositions, and finally, 4) provide general guidance on how to move forward. We move beyond extant literature by providing an outline on what outcomes team coaching can and cannot yield, accumulating evidence from fields outside of healthcare and incorporating team coaching into the TDI literature. By doing so, we hope empirical research on team coaching is incentivized, resulting in an efficient and accessible TDI for healthcare professionals and the field of interprofessional care.
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Gabriela Fernández Castillo
Gabriela Fernández Castillo is a Ph.D. Student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Rice University. She holds her B.A. in Psychology and International Studies from Baylor University. Her research interests include efficiency, teamwork, team coaching, and human-computer interactions.
Eduardo Salas
Dr. Eduardo Salas is a Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Professor in Psychology at Rice University. His research interests are in uncovering what facilitates teamwork and team effectiveness in organizations; how and why does team training work; how to optimize simulation-based training; how to design, implement and evaluate training & development systems, and in generating evidence-based guidance for those in practice.