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title: "Episode #016: Team Leadership in a Covid19 Clinic with Janice John"
description: This episode continues a series focusing on practitioner, organizational and team leader perspectives on applying the 6 Team Conditions framework and Team
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# [Episode #016: Team Leadership in a Covid19 Clinic with Janice John](https://6teamconditions.com/podcasts/podcast/episode-016-team-leadership-team-effectiveness-in-a-covid19-respiration-clinic-special-guest-janice-john-cambridge-health-alliance)

 Written by [Dr. Krister Lowe | Dr. Ruth Wageman | Janice John](https://6teamconditions.com/podcasts/author/dr-krister-lowe-dr-ruth-wageman-janice-john) | Sep 20, 2019 4:00:00 AM

## EPISODE #016: TEAM LEADERSHIP & TEAM EFFECTIVENESS IN A COVID19 RESPIRATION CLINIC | SPECIAL GUEST: JANICE JOHN, CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE

This episode continues a series focusing on practitioner, organizational and team leader perspectives on applying the 6 Team Conditions framework and Team Diagnostic Survey in real world settings. 

In this episode show hosts Ruth Wageman and Krister Lowe interview Janice John--MHCDS, MHS, PA-C, Medical Director at Cambridge Health Alliance--on her experiences standing up a Covid19 Respiration Unit. In her current role as Medical Director Janice built and led a team of 15 clinicians to create an outpatient clinic to care for patients at high risk for and from COVID-19 in Middlesex County MA, and become a model of excellence and learning for outpatient COVID-19 care. Janice and her team created clinical guidelines used by many health systems, including the development of the UpToDate chapter for outpatient adult care for COVID-19. The team’s core focus has been to increase access to communities impacted by systemic racism, build trust and decrease stigma. Learn more about Janice: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janice-john-mhcds-mhs-pa-c-8b854663/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janice-john-mhcds-mhs-pa-c-8b854663/) Some themes explored in the episode include:

- Rapid team formation
- Starting small, prototyping and scaling
- Purpose and urgency in teams
- Pausing and relaunching teams to foster sustainability
- Team coaching in weekly :45 minute sessions
- Technical expertise and team leadership
- Importance of spaces for reflection in action
- Team cadences and rhythms
- Complexity and emergent learning and performance
- Challenges and insights as a team leader
- Complex adaptive systems
- Grappling with structural racism

[Read more](https://6teamconditions.com/podcasts/podcast/episode-016-team-leadership-team-effectiveness-in-a-covid19-respiration-clinic-special-guest-janice-john-cambridge-health-alliance?hs_amp=true#)

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