4.5 Training your team
Training a local health team is one of the Health Extension Practitioner’s responsibilities. The Health Extension Programme uses community member training as a means of making the best use of people in the community. The quality of healthcare and its equitable distribution in a population depends upon the staff employed by the health services, and upon community members trained with some knowledge and skills of health.
A team leader uses training to make sure that each member of the team can play their part in achieving their goals, both as an individual and with other members of the team. Training as a means of solving health problems must be closely related to work in the field, and to the management of priority health problems.
Why do you think it is important to provide training for members of your team?
To make sure that each member of a team knows and can play their part in achieving the goals of the health system. This can be difficult to do but with practice you will be able to provide interesting and effective training for your team.
4.4 Motivating a team