Leadership & Implementation Teams

Leadership and implementation teams play a pivotal role in supporting successful implementation and scale up by ensuring the day-to-day coordination and management of implementation activities, as well as the communication, alignment, and problem-solving work that is necessary for supporting and sustaining change.

When leadership and implementation teams are working well:

  • Groups of people have clear roles with dedicated time to address specific leadership and management activities for implementation
  • Their responsibilities are role-based, not person or position-title-based.
  • Team members bring specific skills and authority to create and manage organizational change.
  • Teams have clear and systematic links, communication, and feedback loops.
  • Teams systematically collect and summarize themes in data collected related to facilitators and barriers of implementation within and outside of the agency/community and ensure that feedback loops and learning continue.

Learn

Video – Implementation Teams: The ‘We” in the Work

Handout – Agency Implementation Teams: What to Consider….

Handout – Leadership & Implementation Teams

Handout – Leadership is Key!

Apply

Activity – Team Charter Template

Activity – Terms of Reference Template

Handout – Guiding Questions for Creating a Shared Vision

Activity – Communication Protocols

Handout – Adaptive Leadership: Essential Wisdom for Active Practice

Activity – Team Asset Mapping

Build Up