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Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC)
Healthy Workers, Happy Team:
Promoting Positive Lifestyle Change
RCSEd Triennial Conference 2018
Prof Chris Oliver
@CyclingSurgeon
CyclingSurgeon.Bike
Retired
Consultant
Orthopaedic
Trauma
Surgeon
Obesity
Cycling
Ateam is a
group of
individuals
working
together to
achieve a
goal
A team becomes more than
just a collection of people
when a strong sense of
mutual commitment
creates synergy, thus
generating performance
greater than the sum of the
performance of its
individual members
Types of teams in health care systems
•Core teams
•Co-ordinating teams
•Contingency teams
•Ancillary teams/services
•Support
service/administration
Birth of teams
•Forming
•ambiguity and confusion.
•unclear. communicate superficially
•Storming
•difficult stage. conflict and rebellion.
•frustrated with slow progress
•Norming
•communication established.
•confront the task
•Performing
•attention on achieving the goals.
•close, supportive, open, trusting, resourceful &
effective.
Team Failures
•Lack of purpose
•Unclear roles
•Fixed mind-set
•Poor decision making
•Lack of resource
Keeping Active
Which is Different
and Why?
40-year-old triathlete
74-year-old sedentary man
70-year-old triathlete
Sarcopaenia
Healthier
lifestyle,
Better teams
with
increased
physical
activity
Have you seen
these guidelines
before?
A dose response
As a NHS Employer
how do you make
healthy lifestyle
choices for your
team?
Schiphorst, Murray, Kelly, Oliver, Bull
Br J Sports Med 2017;51:1227-1228
bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/16/1227
MOOC Sit Less, Get Active
www.coursera.org/learn/get-active
@GetActiveMOOC Free 6th Cycle
153K visitors, 51K enrolled, 29K active, 2.5K completed
International Policy Context
•WHO Global Action Plan for
Physical Activity 2018
•10% reduction sedentary
behaviour by 2025
http://www.who.int/ncds/governance/physical_activity_plan/en/
In summary…
•Happy teams, healthy lifestyle
•Teams are complex
•Decrease sedentary behaviour
is important
•We all have a role to play…
•Do what works at scale
•Culture is changing
Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC)
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Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC)
Healthy Workers, Happy Team:
Promoting Positive Lifestyle Change
RCSEd Triennial Conference 2018
Prof Chris Oliver
@CyclingSurgeon
CyclingSurgeon.Bike