Game On!
Game On Activities are hands-on exercises designed to help interprofessional teams build teamwork, communication, and collaboration skills across healthcare disciplines, with effective teamwork being essential in today's team-based work environments. As you’ve seen from teams you've led or been part of, a new team doesn’t perform exceptionally without proper training, and as the facilitator, you play a key role in helping learners understand and implement team competencies. When planned and executed strategically, these experiential learning activities can unite learners, strengthen skills, and address weaknesses. It's important to define your goals and purposes when selecting and implementing activities, considering how they can be tailored to specific skills, competencies, or learners, with each request including supplies, a facilitator guide, and a learner rule card.
The Office of IPE is your partner in building high-functioning teams. Through the
Game On initiative and request form, we can provide tailored training materials, personalized
mentoring, and fully facilitated experiential learning activities to strengthen collaboration,
enhance communication, and prepare your learners to work effectively on interprofessional
teams across diverse settings.
Step 1: Choose a category from the list below that aligns with your learning objectives and
the level of your learners.
Step 2: Complete the request form at the end of this page.
Step 3: We will match you with an appropriate activity and contact you to arrange a pick-up
or drop-off time.
- Assembles team and identifies team members’ roles and responsibilities
- Holds team members accountable
- Includes patients and families as part of the team
- Provides brief, clear, specific and timely information
- Seeks information from all available sources
- Uses check-backs to verify communicated information
- Uses SBAR, call-outs, check-backs and handoff techniques to communicate effectively with team members
- Monitors the state of the patient
- Monitors fellow team members to ensure safety and prevent errors
- Monitors the environment for safety and availability of resources (e.g., equipment)
- Monitors progress toward the goal and identifies changes that could alter the care plan
- Fosters communication to ensure a shared mental model
- Identifies goals and vision
- Utilizes resources to maximize team performance
- Balances workload within the team
- Delegates tasks or assignments, as appropriate
- Conducts briefs, huddles and debriefs
- Models teamwork behaviors
- Provides task-related support and assistance
- Provides timely and constructive feedback to team members
- Effectively advocates for the patient using the Assertive Statement, Two-Challenge Rule or CUS
- Uses the Two-Challenge Rule or DESC script to resolve conflict
- Understands own role within the team
- Understands the roles of other team members
- Coordinates and integrates roles to achieve patient goals
- Adapts roles based on the situation or workload
- Maintains accountability to the team
- Demonstrates respect for all team members
- Maintains honesty, integrity, and transparency in all interactions
- Upholds professional and ethical standards of practice
- Support a workplace that values respect, satisfaction, and well-being
- Value the expertise of health professionals and its impact on care outcomes