The end of a year is a perfect time to reflect on what has gone well and what hasn’t, providing an opportunity to set goals for the new year. In health and social care, where challenges are common, creating New Year’s resolutions with your staff team can be a great way to encourage your staff team to reflect on their own growth.
Here’s how you can start this process to ensure that resolutions are realistic and actionable.
Why Set Resolutions as a Team?
- To encourage collaboration
- To promote a positive environment, create a sense of unity
- To Strengthen communication
How to Set Resolutions:
- Reflect Together: Start by looking at the previous year. What went well? What didn’t? What needs to be changed to make improvements? This process will not only acknowledge hard work but also provide your staff team with a clear picture of areas that need more focus than others.
- Set SMART Goals: Broad goals like “improve teamwork” are often much harder to achieve than focusing on specific objectives like “introduce weekly team check-ins to improve communication.”
- Celebrate Individual and Team Goals: Balance team resolutions with individual ones, in order to hold one another accountable.
- Prioritise Wellbeing: In health and social care, stress and burnout are real challenges. Encourage your staff team to create resolutions that incorporate this and help support their well-being.
- Write Them Down: Speaking about New Year resolutions is a great first step but writing them down and displaying them in a communal area, serves as a reminder and a way to be held accountable.
New Year’s resolutions require time, effort and commitment. Talking about them and writing them down is the easiest part, following through with goals and achieving them is tricky. By following the steps above, you and your staff team will have a better understanding of what is needed to be done to improve their work effort and the effort of the entire team.
