The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

42 • T HE E VANGEL D EAN B ASIC T RAINING R ESOURCE H ANDBOOK

H. Provide leadership and oversight to every dimension of team effort: The Principle of COORDINATION.

1. Key Scripture: 1 Cor. 12.15-27

2. Definition of the Concept

a. “To bring the efforts of the various team members into a synchronized, purposeful, and harmonized movement through mutual support and careful oversight” b. Coordination is the act where members learn to function and operate their particular roles alone and together in such a way that the entire team prospers and succeeds. a. This is synonymous with a kind of coaching that orchestrates (not dominates) the activities and efforts of the team towards its predetermined goals. b. Coordination is coaching, and as such, it helps to establish and maintain the team members in both mutual and reciprocal relation. c. As a function of leadership, coordination attempts to keep all team activities in essential relation to each other lest team members operate separately as unattached units.

3. The Principle Explained

d. How it functions

(1) On-the-spot feedback and instruction, not only to individuals, but also to pairs and units within the team which relate directly to one another

(2) Detailed plans of how and when members must interact

e. The opposite of Coordination is individualized, uncoordinated action.

f. The result of a lack of coordination is team confusion and poor performance.