Week 8: Teamwork and Leadership

  1. Summarize and report out on the results of the SKS exercise.
    1. Start: Creating more clear agendas for our meetings; Reschedule meetings if more than half of the group cannot attend; Routinely update each other on progress throughout the week; Spend time together in a non-work context to strengthen relationships
    2. Keep: Communicating clearly and expressing our ideas; delegating tasks at the beginning of the week; Being respectful of and patient with one another
    3. Stop: Depending on PI for assignments and be more proactive; procrastinating; Having meetings without the whole team present; Begin taking actions with our plans
  2. Develop a detailed Collaboration Plan for your team clearly articulating your Goals (Small g and Big G), Roles, Procedures, and Relationships.
Team Name: COVID-19 & Communities of Color                                   Date: 03/28/2021
Goals Kayla : To help people who need it the most especially during a pandemic. And to ensure that if a pandemic happens again, it will not affect lower income communities as bad as it did last year.

Helena: Ensure that communities of color are prepared, equitably treated, and less impacted in times of health crises.

Elisha: To bring and maintain awareness to issues that affect communities of color/ create actionable solutions.

Nandini: To address the healthcare inequities impacting communities of color in the Lehigh Valley during the pandemic with long-term policy solutions to ensure that they are better prepared/less impacted by health crises. 

Fatima: To help the communities of color in the Lehigh Valley ensure they have all the resources they need to fight COVID 

Erik: My goal is to bring light to the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, and help initiate actions by public officials and healthcare administrators to ensure this does not occur again, specifically in our community

Project Goal: 

  • Improve minority access to health services in the Lehigh Valley
  • Improving the content and methods through which health-related information is spread in the Lehigh Valley (ie. COVID-19)

Our goal is reachable because we have all the resources we need, and it will be easier to see our goal when we start collecting data. We recognize our constraints and have scaled our project plans accordingly. 

Metrics of success:

  • Once we get our foot in the door of meeting someone who has the power to share our data. 
  • Research, numerical and nominal data to statistically support the needs that we are addressing.
  • Policymakers finding credence in our policy memorandums 
  • Creating relationships with professors, community organizations, and health care workers
  • Our ability to maintain those relationships
  • Feedback from the community to make sure that they understand our mission and we understand their needs.
Roles
  • As a team we are all responsible for each deliverable. We collect data individually then share the data and collaborate on how it affects our project. 
  • Individual work: research, communication
  • Subgroups: research, presentation
  • Collaboration: project design and development, meetings, communication 
  • We all depend on each other to succeed. We depend on Nandini, the project manager. We depend on Professor Brunstein for his expertise on the subject.  · 
  • Each person is responsible for collecting data, doing individual research, completing assignments in a timely manner, attending meetings, giving input, and communicating with other group members 
Procedures Decision Making – We have found consensus to be the most effective making process. 

Effective Meetings – We discuss what needs to be accomplished each week as well as our upcoming goals.  

Meeting roles: coordinator-Nandini; scribe-Fatima

Communication – FTF: Our meetings take place every Sunday at 5PM via Zoom. The expectation is that everyone is present, however, there is understanding if a member communicates that they cannot attend.
Relationships
    • Diversity – We all come from different backgrounds which gives us an advantage when looking at different perspectives. Even though we come from different backgrounds, we all still work really well together as we all know how to communicate. We all share one common goal and that is to make Lehigh Valley a better place in the long run, so we are all passionate about finding data and working together. 
    • Listening – We succeed in listening actively to each other and we create an equal and accepting work environment where everyone’s opinion is valued. 
  • Team name – COVID-19 & Communities of Color

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