A Few Paragraphs on How We Could Have Improved Team Management
In the last quarter of 1980, I was working at an apartment
building called Center Park in south Seattle. Center Park was
the first building of its kind built specifically to accommodate
the needs of people in wheelchairs who could live independently
with some assistance. I and a lady named Virginia were working
there as Personal Care Attendants. We worked very closely with
two disabled men, John Tyler and Ron Schwarz, both now deceased.
I consider us to have been a loosely knit team of all four
individuals. However, we did not perform the tasks that a good
team should have done to accomplish our goal of best possible
care of our clients. This is what I think we should have done to
improve our performance:
Set more goals, as outlined in