Be a Team Player

 

There may be no "I" in team, but there can be dog heads on a team. Since it's Super Bowl Week once again, and the 2017 post during Super Bowl week has been one of the most read int his blog's history  - here we go again. 

"Isn't that the way they say it goes" - you are barely comfortable in your own skin as a clinical professional, and then you are asked to be part of a group of professionals who, largely, don't do what you do! Aren't you subsuming your identity as an SLP to a group that demands more? 

In the right atmosphere, you can easily work alongside your interprofessional peers in a work team and set your standards high. You can energize your career, by helping persons served achieve outcomes outside the therapy room. More energy for your persons served and your workday, can bring the SLP many, many growth opportunities. 

Let this year's Super Bowl halftime entertainer tell you: 

I'm bringin' team work back (YEA)

Those PT's don't know how to state a fact (YEA)

I'll show them; writing won't bring heart attack (YEA)

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Solo staff?
When you do treatment, you block wheat from chaff!

We need you for our team, for all, not half;
Your time is gold for patients, their behalf;...

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Work with us (Be on our team)
Please help us (Be on our team)
DO MORE through us (Be on our team)

We'll do much more (with teamwork)
To keep our patients well; life's not a bore (with teamwork)
We tweak real life, so those we serve have life galore (with teamwork)
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Work with us soon ( Go team!)
We'll see you at the meeting at full moon (Go team!)
To get your teamwork on....(Go team!)