Organised by the FIP Academic Pharmacy Section, in collaboration with the FIP Hospital Pharmacy Section, FIPEd, International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation and FIP’s Young Pharmacists Group
A key component of leadership is building and maintaining strong teams. This requires an ongoing application of skills to foster trust, shared communications, manage debate and conflict, identify shared team goals and ensure accountability among the team to deliver results for success.
Academia must prepare student pharmacists to be effective in participating in and facilitating the creation of strong teams in the workplace.
This workshop will highlight approaches necessary to build strong teams. The session will start with a hands-on, fun exercise, which will provide rich insights into how teams work together. This dynamic and engaging start to the session will provide participants with an opportunity to reflect on their own reaction to team environments. This will be followed by a presentation on building, leading, and evaluating strong teams.
Three team leaders from around the world will share their experiences of team working, which will provide participants with insights to different team approaches.
Finally, ways in which the team-building skills can be addressed in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum will be discussed through a facilitated discussion.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Type of session: Application-based