Establishing the Climate in my Team

Team: Disaster Management Team

 Disaster causes public health consequences and a consistent approach is needed to manage disaster threats. In response to the disaster, individuals and society have developed measures and adopted approaches. However, the community is unable to fully address the problem due to economic, cultural or political barriers. Thus, there is a need to create a social disaster management team that will work together with the individuals and community organization to create sustainable development policies and manage the disaster.

 The structure of the team 

 The disaster management team will be made of up of two sub-teams. The first team signifies planning and preparedness team. The role of this particular team will be to create plans and engage the individuals and community in the planning process. The planning and response and other stakeholders will create a multi-agency response and come up with a framework aimed at minimizing disaster,  taking efficient actions, organizing training and,  allocation and placement (Wilkinson,  Linda  & Nancy et al, 30).The second team is the response and recovery team. This team will play the role of implementing plans towards providing assistance, reducing damage, providing effective recovery operations and maintaining the normal systems. The response and recovery team work hard toward providing basic services and repairing the damage caused by the disaster (Wilkinson, Linda & Nancy et al, 30).The membership will involve the two sub-teams and additional volunteers who will have the willingness to support the disaster management team.

 The mission of the disaster management team is to coordinate with local shareholders and provide emergent management to the disaster through preparedness, response, and recovery.  The core missions are designed toward providing a comprehensive emergency management through providing critical alerts, notifications and recovery operations which disaster occurs.

  Team norms are important as they strengthen the team interaction and guides the behaviors. In other words, team norms are established guidelines or ground rules that create successful functioning.  Two norms that I feel are essential to the team's success are continuous communication and backbone support. The first norm: continuous communication means that all team members should engage in regular communication strategies including face-to-face, online platforms, and phone communication to share objectives, foster trust and build relationships (Hamner et al. 99). Continuous communication is important as it will enable the team to create a common agenda, create and implement an action plan and create a collective effort. The second norm that will bring success is backbone support. This means that the team should value teamwork for them to work together and benefit the society.  Lack of teamwork will cause more catastrophes and failures but a team that values teamwork always supports and educates each other thereby achieving success.

 In this team, I will encourage cohesiveness through establishing a mission. The team mission will help the members understand the purpose and values of the team. Having understood the mission, they will develop a strategy on how to achieve the mission. The strategy toward achieving the mission will be based on sticking together and being in unity. In other words, the team members will build a cohesive team by working together to fulfill the mission (Hamner et al. 99).  The second method that I will use to encourage cohesiveness is celebrating success.  After creating the mission and encouraging the team to work together toward a common goal in order to fulfill the mission, I will appreciate their work. By so doing, the team will increase cohesion and continue working together.

  In the disaster management team, I will set standards of excellence to help the team understand the organization expectations. I will set the standards on the basis of accountability and decision-making. Members should be accountable for their own behaviors and should adhere to ethical principles. Second, members should engage in participatory decisions making and create an inclusive environment to develop the best solutions, promote trust and share information (Wilkinson, Linda & Nancy et al, 3). After setting the standards of excellence, I will measure the performance by checking the quality of work and cost-effectiveness. The team should provide quality practices in managing the disasters and they should also utilize the available resources effectively. I will recognize the best team members or rather the best sub-team by providing certificates of achievement to encourage and motivate the employees to work harder toward saving the lives of people in managing the disasters.

 

 

Reference

 

Hamner, Marvine P, S S. Stovall, Doaa M. Taha, and Salah C. Brahimi. Emergency Management and Disaster Response

Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships. , 2015. Internet resource.

 

Wilkinson, Frances C, Linda K. Lewis, and Nancy K. Dennis. Comprehensive Guide to Emergency Preparedness and

Disaster Recovery. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010. Print.