4.2  Building a team

Health Extension Practitioners work with a variety of community groups and your job will often require you to create health teams from your community in order to achieve community health goals. In this section you will consider why team building is important, the different kinds of teams, and the ways that teams can come together to get their work done.

A team is two or more people who work together to achieve a common goal. A health team is a group of people who share common objectives, determined by community need. Each member of the team contributes to the achievement of the common goal.

Your health team members include, for example, health promoters, model households, opinion and political leaders, and various community association members. It is always important that their work and contributions are recognised.