“To become a high-performing team, the team must be competent in setting goals, establishing missions, and ensuring that team members have the necessary skills to accomplish them, make decisions by consensus, set high standards, hold people accountable and run effective meetings” (Dyer, Dyer, & Dyer, 2007, p. 74). In the article "Professionals' Views on Interprofessional Stroke Team Functioning", Jane Cramm and Anna Nieboer (2011) seek to explain that interprofessional teamwork is considered the central element of integrated care, a complex activity involving many different health care providers which requires an efficient team. operation (p. 1-2). And in the article “The role of oncologists in UK multidisciplinary cancer teams: an untapped resource for team leadership? Benjamin Lamb, Heather Payne, Charles Vincent, Nick Sevdalis, and James Green (2011) seek to explain why "good teamwork, including team communication and leadership, has been shown to be a prerequisite for safe care delivery in other health care settings, but cancer MDT team work processes have yet to be fully explored” (p. 1200). According to Dyer, Dyer, and Dyer (2007), high-performing teams are those composed of members whose skills, attitudes, and competencies enable them to achieve the team's goals (p. 4). Both articles found that team performance and leadership functionality needed to be improved for the success of individual teams and patient care. Team performance relies largely on the team leader's ability to identify and possess the essential skills required to solve the problems required by the team. Cramm and Nieboer (2011) explain in their article Professionals' Views on Interprofessional Stroke Team Functioning "that the involvement of diverse professionals...... middle of paper ......improvement and the actions necessary to achieve the improvement of the team and members. Works Cited Cramm, JM & Nieboer, AP (2011). Professionals' perspectives on the functioning of interprofessional stroke teams. International Journal of Integrated Care, 11(3), 1-8. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=82636ff2-7a83-435b-9a6f-46dfe41940b4%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4204&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db =a 9h&AN=69828623Dyer, WG, Dyer WG Jr. and Dyer, J.H. (2007). Team building: proven strategies for improving team performance (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Lamb, B., Payne, H., Vincent, C., Sevdalis, N., & Green, J. S. (2011). The role of oncologists in UK multidisciplinary cancer teams: an untapped resource for team leadership? Journal of Assessment in Clinical Practice, 17(6), 1200-1206. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01507.x