On-Demand Learning Lab: Virtual Team Building - the "New Normal"-PPT Virtual Team Building

PPT Virtual Team Building

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This NAHQ Learning Lab “Virtual Team Building – The ‘New Normal’” is an expert roundtable focused on how healthcare quality and performance improvement teams can remain effective in virtual and hybrid work environments. The session introduces core learning objectives: recognizing characteristics of high-performing teams and challenges of remote work, using quality tools to improve team efficiency, and applying team-building best practices across virtual, hybrid, and in-person settings. It aligns with the NAHQ Healthcare Quality Competency Framework, emphasizing quality leadership, integration, engagement, and teamwork.<br /><br />The material defines a team as an interdependent group combining information, resources, and skills to achieve a common goal, and reviews how quality councils/committees provide permanent oversight of quality performance, connect initiatives to strategic plans, and support resources, policies, recognition, and a process-focused (not person-focused) improvement culture. It outlines types of performance improvement teams (natural work, cross-functional, departmental, temporary, and permanent) and explains when teams outperform individuals (complex tasks, creativity, unclear paths forward, cross-functional implementation, rapid learning, and resource efficiency).<br /><br />Practical “quality toolkit” components include developing a team charter (to clarify purpose, scope, roles, and expectations) and establishing team rules/ground rules. Key team roles are described—sponsor, champion, leader, facilitator, and member—along with responsibilities for accountability and progress. Team development is framed using Tuckman’s stages (forming, storming, norming, performing), and effectiveness is measured by productivity, member satisfaction, and individual professional growth.<br /><br />The virtual/hybrid section highlights COVID-driven changes, competing priorities, engagement challenges, and reliance on technology (meeting platforms, chat tools, equipment, IT support). Interactive polls and discussion questions address how to replicate informal collaboration remotely, how roles shift in virtual settings, how to ensure every voice is heard and accountability is maintained, and how to learn from challenging team situations. The document concludes with instructions for earning CPHQ continuing education credit and lists upcoming NAHQ events.

Keywords

virtual team building

hybrid work environments

healthcare quality improvement

NAHQ Learning Lab

high-performing teams

quality councils and committees

team charter

team roles and responsibilities

Tuckman stages of team development

remote team engagement and accountability